Calling all charter school authorizers and school leaders: join the 2024 Winter & Spring A-GAME Convenings for opportunities to create innovative, customized school goals that work for students and identify new ways to measure school quality that go beyond state accountability.
Our theme for 2024, Redefine Quality and Empowering Change: Transforming Education through Disruption, Equity, and Innovation, focuses on reassessing quality indicators, challenging existing frameworks, and fostering innovation that benefits all students attending charter schools.
Join us to:
- connect with peers from across the country to reimagine charter accountability and improve student success.
- explore the critical role of equity and the need to redefine it within the context of charter authorizing and charter school policies.
- learn about schools that have successfully embodied the A-GAME approach to set challenging and targeted student success goals, and
- understand the intersection between Indicators of Distress: Early Warning Systems and A-GAME to define quality and attaining and sustaining high quality.
Note: Attendees can register for any of the convenings without having attended a prior convening.
A-GAME Virtual Convening – February 2024
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (Pacific) / 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Location: Virtual Convening
Registration Fee: None
About the Convening
Delve into the origins of Indicators of Distress, a tool designed to support charter school authorizers, board members, and school leaders by helping to proactively identify schools before they are considered in need of improvement.
A-GAME Virtual Convening – April 2024
REGISTER
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Time: 10 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (Pacific) / 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Location: Virtual Convening
Registration Fee: None
About the Convening
Explore the transformative power of Indicators of Distress in shaping sustainable educational practices. Through candid discussions based on real experiences, participants will reimagine what “authorizer support” and “turnaround” could look like.
2024 In-Person A-GAME Convening
REGISTER BY APRIL 5, 2024
Date and Time: Thursday, May 2, 12:00 p.m. (Central) – Friday May 3, 3:00 p.m. (Central)
Location: Summit Executive Center at 5 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Registration Fee: $299, includes hotel room at Arlo Chicago, two meals, and a reception
About the Convening
Learn from and with charter authorizers and school leaders about innovative practices in charter school oversight that focus on taking a proactive approach to supporting school success rather than closing schools reactively due to low academic achievement or financial hardships. During the event, you’ll engage in conversations that push the envelope on what it means to be a high-quality authorizer of charter schools today.
Why attend?
- Networking: connect with peers, educators, and leaders in the charter school community.
- Innovation: discover innovations in charter school authorizing.
- Knowledge-sharing: gain insights from experts, thought leaders, and your peers.
- A-GAME impact: learn about the origins and impact of A-GAME in changing the arc of education.
Note: NACSA is sponsoring one registration for the first 50 NACSA-member authorizer organizations that register.
Developed in partnership by the National Charter Schools Institute (NCSI), Momentum Strategy and Research, and WestEd, A-GAME: Measure What Matters is a community open to charter school authorizers, leaders, teachers, parents, board members, and friends of charter schools. You must be a member of the A-GAME: Measure What Matters Most community to participate in the convenings. Not a member yet? Join today!
If you have additional questions, please contact Naomi Rubin DeVeaux at ndeveaux@CharterInstitute.org.