The Erie 2-Chautuauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES was awarded $400,000 as a part of the Teaching is the Core Grant to work with fifteen component districts on the following focus areas:
- Improve the quality of assessments used in the consortium districts, while reducing those that do not contribute to teaching and learning.
- Build capacity of local districts in “assessment literacy” in order to make decisions around the selection and use of quality assessments and see the power of assessment to support further learning.
- Develop communication tools for consortium districts to use with parents and community members around assessment literacy, uses of assessment and the Common Core in an effort to help those groups understand changes as a result of Race to the Top and reduce number test refusals in participating districts.
All grant activities were designed to assist the participating component districts in meeting the following reporting requirements: