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The Fruit Loops Dashboard

I have a hefty appetite for visual expressions of school [...]

By Steve Rees|2024-12-17T13:09:10-08:00December 17th, 2024|accountability, communication, dashboard|Comments Off on The Fruit Loops Dashboard
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The CDE’s Dashboard Leads to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

I returned a few weeks ago from the California Charter [...]

By Steve Rees|2024-04-12T11:07:43-07:00April 10th, 2024|communication, conference, dashboard, mismeasurement|Comments Off on The CDE’s Dashboard Leads to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
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As school board trustees make sense of test results, supes have an opportunity to build a common view

California’s CAASPP test results were released statewide on October 18. [...]

By Steve Rees|2023-11-17T07:56:16-08:00November 14th, 2023|accountability, assessment, communication, district management, governance|Comments Off on As school board trustees make sense of test results, supes have an opportunity to build a common view
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One reason we misunderstand progress of emerging bilingual students

Educators almost everywhere rely on classifying and sorting their students. [...]

By Steve Rees|2023-09-12T09:04:07-07:00September 12th, 2023|communication, English learners|Comments Off on One reason we misunderstand progress of emerging bilingual students
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  • Newspaper headline using overly dramatic language to describe NAEP score decline

When reporters misrepresent NAEP test results, misunderstandings spread far and wide

The New York Times assigned reporter Sarah Mervosh to make [...]

By Steve Rees|2022-09-09T09:31:17-07:00September 7th, 2022|communication, district management, mismeasurement, News|Comments Off on When reporters misrepresent NAEP test results, misunderstandings spread far and wide
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The hazards of labeling, or what the 2×4 can teach us about our words

How quickly our words get away from us. We sometimes [...]

By Steve Rees|2022-09-01T11:55:23-07:00September 1st, 2022|communication, English learners, mismeasurement|Comments Off on The hazards of labeling, or what the 2×4 can teach us about our words
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Another CERA conference without debate, dialogue or disagreement

Each November, I go to the annual conference of the [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-12-16T11:11:23-08:00December 16th, 2019|communication, conference, event, professional development, research, State Board of Education|Comments Off on Another CERA conference without debate, dialogue or disagreement
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The point of visualizing data is discovering human stories

I just returned from the annual conference of the California [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-12-02T13:20:29-08:00December 2nd, 2019|applied analytics, communication, conference, data viz, graduation rate|Comments Off on The point of visualizing data is discovering human stories
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  • Assessment directors are navigators

Do you really know the work your assessment director is doing?

Over the past 20 years, I’ve met at least 60 [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-11-05T14:52:43-08:00November 5th, 2019|assessment, communication, district management|Comments Off on Do you really know the work your assessment director is doing?
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Supes are asking for help with LCAPs: candid criticism and appeals for technical support

What has happened to the high hopes policy heavies had [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-11-06T10:32:19-08:00September 6th, 2019|communication, district management, LCAP, planning, research|Comments Off on Supes are asking for help with LCAPs: candid criticism and appeals for technical support
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