An Urgent Education
Call-to-Action!
The
Aligned·By·Design Initiative
is a national education leadership call-to-action to restore our nation’s global
prominence in academic achievement. Empowered by the breakthrough
Aligned·By·Design
Model,
it affirms an unprecedented opportunity for the education community to eliminate
the systemic problems and interrelated challenges that have impeded
standards-based education progress for the past 20 years.
The Initiative
believes every
student can graduate from high school prepared
to succeed in the global workforce and that real, sustainable
improvements in student achievement can happen.
The Initiative calls on, and
enables, the education community
by September 2014 to:
The innovative Model and its derived
Aligned·By·Design System enable states and school districts to realize
the comprehensive
aligned instructional system. The system empowers educators with a unified, web-based
set of processes and
tools to meet today’s globally competitive student achievement goals. It is a
systemic, evidence-based solution that follows proven quality processes using
state-of-the art process automation and management technology.
The System’s integral alignment capabilities ensure that content standards,
curriculum and assessments are linked to and reference the identical knowledge
and skill item definitions. These explicit definitions enable educators to
achieve perfect alignment between standards/frameworks, classroom
curriculum (units and lesson plans) and assessments and maintain that alignment as they evolve.
Aligned·By·Design’s next generation Optimized Process Data System monitors
student, classroom and school progress in real-time using its cross-sectional
and longitudinal databases and dual-engine analytical capabilities to achieve
continuous improvement. It automatically collects and analyzes a portfolio of
performance and teaching data and ‘at a glance’ provides the teacher, school,
district, state and parent with the actionable feedback needed to address
learning, instruction, policy and resource allocation questions.
The System provides the flexibility, predictability and incremental support the
education community needs to develop truly aligned and effective standards-based
instructional systems. The resulting benefits include significant, measurable
improvements in student achievement and the closing of long-standing racial and
socio-economic achievement gaps.
The education community, our nation’s leaders, parents and all concerned
Americans are urged to embrace the Initiative, and with it, the assurance that
all students will have access to a world-class education and rigorous course
content based on internationally-benchmarked,
teachable and measurable standards.
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Aligned·By·Design
Initiative
enables improved schools and student achievement, please
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