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This document introduces a new school accountability mechanism, the Accountability Dialogue. An Accountability Dialogue brings together educators, parents, and the larger school community to: (1) establish standards for school and student performance; (2) determine how the school is doing in relation to those standards; (3) investigate the conditions that contribute to the school's strengths and weaknesses; and (4) plan how to address the areas where improvement is needed. The Western Assessment Collaborative worked for 5 years with a set of districts and schools in their efforts to implement standards-based reform. By drawing on a multiplicity of perspectives and sources of data, Accountability Dialogues acknowledge, rather than ignore, each of the challenges raised by large-scale external accountability systems. At the same time that Accountability Dialogues accelerate the implementation of standards and facilitate the use of data to plan improvements, they also upset the traditional ways in which educators have related to parents, the community, and one another. The greatest promise of Accountability Dialogues lies in their potential to strengthen the relationships that are ess

Author

Kate Jamentz; Tracy Lewis; Maria Dehghan; Jill Ehorn; WestEd (Organization); United States Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Publisher

WestEd, 730 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA, 94107-1242. Tel: 415-565-3000; toll-free: 877-403-7833; Web site: http://wested.org

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914409052

Subjects

Education