Aimee Evan

Performance Frameworks and Special Education: Compliance AND Quality
2024-10-23 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | THE WESTIN GALLERIA HOUSTON, 5060 W Alabama Street, Houston, TX, 77056, United States
National Association of Charter School Authorizers Annual Leadership Conference
Presenters: Jamie Garwood (Ball State University); Aylin Bell and Aimee Evan

Pre-Conference Event
2024-10-21 13:00 - 16:00 | THE WESTIN GALLERIA HOUSTON, 5060 W Alabama Street, Houston, TX, 77056, United States
National Association of Charter School Authorizers Annual Leadership Conference
Presenters: Kelly Wynveen and Aimee Evan

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2024-10-21 - 2024-10-24 | THE WESTIN GALLERIA HOUSTON, 5060 W Alabama Street, Houston, TX, 77056, United States
Presenters: David Greenberg, NACSA; Michele Gray, DC Public Charter School Board; Jess Saven Barton, Washington State Charter School Commission

An Ounce of Prevention: Early Identification & Support for Struggling Schools
2024-09-20 17:15 - 18:45 | Kent AB, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
A school’s failure has often been almost exclusively defined by its students’ end-of-year test results, i.e. how many students are below grade level as measured by the state’s high stakes tests in reading, math, and science. Identifying failing schools at the earliest stages of decline – when they are in distress – provides an opportunity for easier and more rapid improvement than if the issues have been allowed to fester. Applying an early warning system approach to evaluating school data trends may allow school policymakers and practitioners to identify and support schools prior to failure and negative impacts on student learning and outcomes. Read More.

Charter Board Fundamentals Seminar
2024-05-17 09:00 - 12:00 | TX
Greetings everyone,
Just a quick reminder for our upcoming Charter Board Fundamentals Seminar taking place virtually on Friday, May 17th, from 9.00am-12pm.
The Colorado Department of Education Schools of Choice Office offers the Board Fundamentals twice per year, once in the Fall and once in the Spring. This training is designed to provide charter school board members with a clear understanding of charter school board responsibilities. This event also focuses on giving charter school board members with strategies that will strengthen the board and promote strong board governance.
In this session, we learn about using Indicators of Distress to evaluate and support our charter schools from Dr. Aimee Evan of Wested. We will also learn about new data dashboards for school leaders and charter boards from Andy Franco and Amy Odell from the Minga Education Group. We will also get an update from the 2024 state legislative session from Dan Schaller from the Colorado League of Charter Schools.
You can register for this event here. You can find the agenda here. This seminar is open to all.
Hope to see you there!
The SOC Team

In-Person Convening
2024-05-02 12:00 - 2024-05-03 15:00 | Summit Executive Center, 205 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Gather with peer authorizers in person for interactive sessions that will challenge you to push the envelope on what it means to be a high-quality charter school authorizer today.

Virtual Convening
2024-04-03 13:00 - 14:30 | TX
Through candid discussions based on real experiences, participants at this April 3rd convening will reimagine what “Authorizer Support” and “Turn around” could look like in NEXT practices. Join school leaders, authorizers, and board members to uncover how schools can be supported and encouraged rather than regulated.

Virtual Convening
2024-02-14 13:00 - 14:30 | TX
This February 14 convening highlights the genesis of Indicators of Distress, a tool charter school authorizers, board members, and school leaders use to proactively identify schools BEFORE they are considered “in need of improvement.” Discuss the benefits and challenges of early identifications and what that means for charter autonomy.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: Identifying Schools in Early Distress
2024-02-01 | TX
Invited speaker at the National ESEA annual conference: https://www.eseanetwork.org/sched/E23/session/an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure-identifying-schools-in-early-distress-1
As a leader your goal is to provide students attending your schools with a high-quality education. Given all that goes into accomplishing this goal both internal and external to your school it can be easy for challenges to bubble up and go unnoticed. Research shows schools don’t just decline all at once or out of the blue, rather decline stems from these unaddressed issues that fester and permeate over time. This presentation will walk participants through ground-breaking research on identifying school distress prior to that distress impacting student outcomes. The purpose of this session is to help schools, districts, and states recognize the early warning signs of school decline and mitigate these challenges. We will guide participants through this research and early warning signs. Participants will audit their systems and map current data collection to data needed to identify early school distress, helping save schools years of decline and ensure high quality education for students.

Invited speaker at the International School Choice and Reform Conference:
2024-01-06 | TX
Critical Conversation – Re-imagining Accountability: flipping the system to put ALL students and families first through creating indicators designed to measure what matters most and identifying schools that are in danger of falling before it’s too late.
Participants: Naomi DeVeaux (National Charter Schools Institute), Aimee Evan (West Ed), John Carwell (Delaware Department of Education), David Frank (New York State Education Department)

National Alliance for Charter School Authorizers Annual Conference
2023-10-24 - 2023-10-27 | TX
NACSACON is more than just an authorizing conference; it is a leadership conference.

Tipping the Scales: Early Identification & Support for Struggling Schools
2023-09-27 16:15 - 17:45 | TX
Charter Schools’ Early Indicators of Distress Before Failure: Leaders and Governing Board Experiences

2023 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
2023-09-27 - 2023-09-29 | TX
Embedding Equity for Better Methods, Evidence, and Practice

REL Mid-Atlantic Event: Coaching to Implement Progress Monitoring for School Improvement (Session 4)
2021-06-29 | TX
This is a six-part learning series. The purpose of this learning series is to assist the stakeholder with encouraging the practice of progress monitoring, establish a deeper collaboration between state education agencies and local school systems in supporting schools identified for targeted support, and promote consistency in how state education agencies monitor school improvement progress.
