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Author: Tiffany Katanyoutanant

Tiffany Katanyoutanant

Fostering Equity Through a Shared Understanding of School Performance: American Samoa’s School Accountability Journey

As part of the Region 19 Comprehensive Center, Hendrick Cho and Eric Crane are supporting the American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) in developing a school accountability system that encourages student performance and promotes territory-wide access to equitable education. Read more on how they supported ASDOE’s design of the new School Accountability Improvement System in […]

Keeping Pace Versus Gaining Ground: Why Normative and Criterion Growth Goals Won’t Necessarily Lead to the Same Finish Line, Especially in a Post-COVID World

Many districts, schools, and teachers rely on interim assessments. Most are well designed, with strong attention to measuring student knowledge of content and skills accurately and quickly. Most also provide different types of scores that can be used to understand student performance and student growth over time. Sarah Quesen, Deputy Director of WestEd’s Assessment Research […]

Is the School Assessment and Accountability Era Over? Insights from Marianne Perie, Director of Assessment Research and Innovation at WestEd.

This article is reposted from WestEd Insights & Impact, a source for research findings and impact from WestEd experts related to teaching, learning, and human development. Marianne Perie, Director of Assessment Research and Innovation at WestEd, is responsible for shaping the agency’s psychometric and assessment research. She provides deep measurement expertise that draws on her more than […]

Supporting Indigenous Heritage Language Acquisition through Funding and Tribal Advocacy

In this blog post, WestEd expert Barbara Jones explores state efforts to systematically support Indigenous instruction and learning. “I want to learn my language to make sure my younger sisters and brothers can speak it. I have to start with myself. It’s hard ‘cuz it’s not spoken in my home…”  – Pueblo High School youth (2014) […]

How States are Supporting Indigenous Heritage Language Teaching and Learning

In this blog post, WestEd expert Barbara Jones explores state efforts to systematically support Indigenous instruction and learning. “This is a critical generation of Native children, the last to prevent the deterioration of our Native languages. Without language, how long can a culture survive without unraveling? We need a different paradigm to win this race […]