Evaluating Innovative Program Impact at Schools

CHALLENGE

Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is a non-profit community who invests in educators with bold new visions for the most urgent challenges in public education today. In an initiative funded by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, NGLC wanted to gather and share ideas on how schools could understand whether or not their program innovations were truly working.

SUPPORT

Amy Sandoz guided NGLC through an inclusive research and design process with students, educators, and national leaders in assessment to build a toolkit for school and district administrators to broaden their thinking on how to evaluate “what works” about their programs.

RESULTS

The Full Spectrum of Evidence toolkit launched in September 2021. The toolkit offers ways for educators to redefine program accountability and assessment; including how to gather, center, and use student insights to create learning environments that foster whole-child growth and academic achievement.

The toolkit launched to educator acclaim and was featured at the 2022 ASU-GSV Summit.