West Aurora School District 129 serves families who speak more than 44 languages across 15 schools. Associate Superintendent Brent Raby shares how ECRA’s predictive analytics and predicted growth checkpoints help teachers and school district leaders replace guesswork with targeted, purposeful instruction.
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ECRA Data Briefs are moving online with a new interactive experience that gives district leaders more control over how they explore, compare, analyze, and communicate their results.
IPA and ECRA are making the Online Model Student Handbook even more useful with an AI Assistant that helps school leaders find information and keep their handbooks current in less time.
ECRA welcomes Dr. Michael Lubelfeld as Vice President. The nationally recognized educational leader, author, and former superintendent will serve as a resource to superintendents, boards of education, and district leadership teams.
IASA’s Leadership Matters highlights the Illinois consortium of more than 100 school districts working together to understand the impact of English learner and bilingual program models, with ECRA as data and research partner.
Illinois has new proficiency benchmarks, but without state and national context they are easy to misinterpret. ECRA’s research on more than 1 million students shows what school leaders should consider when communicating results.
Illinois approved new proficiency benchmarks for the IAR, ACT, and ISA. Here is how ECRA will apply them across the School Improvement platform and what they mean for your proficiency and growth data.
School budgets should do more than balance. Learn how data-driven budgeting and evidence-based decisions help district leaders align resources with student outcomes and invest in what works.
Predictive analytics helps superintendents forecast student outcomes, set evidence-based goals, and align resources to what works. Here is what every district leader should know.
ISBE is updating its proficiency benchmarks. Learn how the changes affect the student growth and proficiency results reported in ECRA’s School Improvement application.
What are evidence-based practices, and why do they matter? Learn how states and districts can use evidence to choose the school improvement interventions most likely to accelerate student learning.
Transparency, clarity, and trust are critical to successfully navigating a school district referendum. Whether the goal is to invest in facilities, support academic programming, or support staff and students, district leaders are often faced with the challenge of helping their communities understand both the why and the value behind the ask. In this post. learn how New Glarus School District in Wisconsin benefitted from ECRA’s State Percentile Analysis and Comparative District Analysis data briefs.
In IASA’s Leadership Matters, Dr. John Gatta shares how AI Assistants help school districts simplify access to critical information and make evidence-based decisions faster.
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