Assessing ELA Curriculum Shifts: A Practical Guide for Measurement and Progress Monitoring

Across the country, districts are making big bets on the promise of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and professional learning (PL) offerings to support curricular shifts.

How will we know whether these efforts are working? Right now, districts, PL providers, and states are all using different tools to gather data even when they are trying to measure the same things. By coming together, we can enhance data consistency and completeness to better track these efforts.

This new toolkit from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, of which Leading Educators is a founding member, offers consensus recommendations on a series of key measures compiled by PL organizations and researchers that we can all use to monitor progress on curriculum implementation in English Language Arts across grades 3-12.

Who is this toolkit for?

Assessing ELA Curriculum Shifts: A Practical Guide for Measurement and Progress Monitoring supports PL providers, district leaders, and coaches who want to track implementation progress and PL quality across the first several years of ELA curriculum shifts.

• The measures here have been selected by the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) in partnership with PL provider organizations and researchers as a set of common metrics that can be collected across multiple locations to improve progress monitoring and comparison across multiple systems and organizations.
• They can be used either as a comprehensive suite or tailored to specific needs (i.e., use cases), including in-depth evaluations of overall curriculum implementation, monitoring ongoing progress, supporting cycles of improvement, or identifying and learning from bright spots in the work.