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As the Strategic Initiative Director of the Center for Innovative Measures at CCSSO, John brings with him a unique and varied background perfectly suited to the role. He began his work in education during graduate school, where as an English major he met and became enamored of several leaders within New Standards, one of the early pioneers in the efforts to create standards around the skills and expectations we should have of students. As a result of that work he left his English career behind him and entered the world of measurement where he has been ever since, sensing that if the world of education was going to change for the better the measurement tools were likely to be the chief driver.
From New Standards John went to the Delaware Department of Education, where after only two months on the job he was asked to serve as the state test director. In that role he helped design and build the first several rounds of the Delaware Student Testing Program, as well as the original accountability and reporting systems used by the state. The use of technology as a reporting tool was at the time somewhat unique, and Delaware was one of the leaders in its use for disseminating assessment data.
After three years in Delaware, John joined what was then Harcourt Educational Measurement, where he spent the next eight years in a variety of executive roles, most of which were focused on the issue of large-scale assessment. These included roles in test development, national and state accounts, and business development. During his last two years with the company, he led the development of a set of frameworks that became the basis for a system by which schools and districts can greatly improve their use of assessment data. It was also during this period that many of his ideas for the next generation of school reforms were beginning to gel, and so began a search for the next opportunity to move the message forward.
In January of 2008 John came to CCSSO joining a tradition of excellence that began long before he ever even considered a career in measurement. Included in that tradition are dedicated professionals that have run some of the more successful projects in the history of large-scale assessment, including the state collaborative work known by the acronym “SCASS,” and the National Conference on Student Assessment. With the addition of the Center CCSSO is now poised to continue the tradition, extending its reach to the current issues facing the next generation of standards, their measures, and the students who will be affected by them.
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