ECRA Group Partners with Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA) to Promote Evidence-based Practice

ECRA Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA). This newly formed partnership will offer school districts resources to support evidence-based practice by quantifying the impact that investments in programs, interventions, and school improvement initiatives are having on student outcomes. Connect with ECRA Group to learn…

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Communicating Data With Your School Community

Communicating the impact local school districts are having on student and system outcomes is emerging as a critical function of a school district. This often falls to communication staff to decide what and how to communicate district performance. As a result, communication leaders within school systems are in an influential position to brand the school…

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Overview Video: Strategic Dashboard

The ECRA Strategic Dashboard is a powerful tool that encourages district leaders to think differently about student success and school quality. The strategic dashboard provides an infrastructure for school districts to build their own school report card at the local level against a local definition of quality. It provides a framework for the superintendent to…

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ECRA Brand Update

ECRA Group is excited to announce that we have refreshed our logo and have refined our visual identity. Our brand hasn’t changed. We remain committed to partnering with school districts, harnessing the power of predictive analytics, and helping school leaders bring decisions into focus. Our new logo efficiently communicates who we are and quite simply…

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Goal Setting for School Improvement

The fundamental purpose of setting school improvement goals is to assess the effectiveness of improvement efforts. The utility of the school improvement process rests on the inferences one can draw from meeting a goal. For example, a typical school improvement goal may be “increase the percentage of students meeting standards in grade 4 reading by 5%. While this type of goal is specific and concise, the results will provide little to no information as to the effectiveness of improvement efforts. Why? Because increasing grade 4 reading by 5% is likely an arbitrary goal that is unrelated to school performance and not evidence-based.

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Equity and Student Growth: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Download Research BriefAt ECRA Group, we celebrate educational leaders and school districts across the nation and their response to a once-in-a-hundred year pandemic. The overnight innovations while under immense pressure and the willingness of all educators to adapt is remarkable. Despite the seemingly insurmountable challenges, significant progress was made. Educational leaders have observed, first-hand, the…

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