What We Do

We envision a world in which all students complete high school ready for college, a rewarding job, and productive and engaged citizenship.

Rigorous standards for all students, with college- and career-readiness as the anchor, set the path. High- quality instructional resources and aligned assessments give educators the tools they need to help students navigate that path.

At CenterPoint, we work hand-in-hand with educators from states, districts, and schools to dramatically increase the rates at which students graduate from high school prepared for the opportunities ahead.

Using our deep experience in building instructional tools and assessments aligned to college- and-career ready standards, we provide proven solutions and customized services to support educators so they can support student success.

We focus on the areas of specialty detailed here.

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  • Empowering Educators to Support Student Success
  • Classroom Assessments for Learning
  • Assessment Solutions and Support
  • Using Data to Inform Instruction
  • Preventing the Achievement Gap

  • Empowering Educators to Support Student Success

    At CenterPoint, we believe educators are the key to student success. In fact, our team averages more than 20 years of classroom teaching and district leadership experience. In everything we do, our aim is to empower educators to do their best work.

     

    Our customized services are delivered by veteran educators and assessment experts, who specialize in the following areas:

     

    • Building educator capacity to deliver standards based instruction
    • Aligning curricular and assessment materials with college- and career-ready standards
    • Supporting interpretation and use of data for instructional planning
    • Developing instructional strategies on topics such as writing, early literacy and mathematics concepts
    • Building assessment literacy for district and school staff

     

    By educators, for educators – CenterPoint is committed to working with schools and districts on your priorities.

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  • Classroom Assessments for Learning

    Sometimes this evidence is informal such as the nod of a student’s head, an interactive classroom discussion, or completion of a graphic organizer. Other times evidence comes from a more formal assessment, including a unit, benchmark, diagnostic, interim or end-of-year test.

     

    CenterPoint’s assessment solutions have been built with the classroom teacher in mind: assessments that are a part of learning, not a break from learning. We believe in fewer, shorter, higher-quality assessments that measure what matters and yield the evidence teachers need to make meaningful instructional decisions for students.

     

    We offer a variety of assessment solutions to fit the needs of states, districts, schools and educators.

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  • Assessment Solutions and Support

    High-quality assessments—both summative and classroom based—empower educators, inform instructional decision-making, and improve student learning.

     

    The CenterPoint team has been at the forefront of building a nationally renowned, comprehensive program of aligned, high-quality assessments that enable teachers and school leaders to put students on a path to developing college- and career- ready capabilities.

     

    Whether it is assessing a particular skill or standard, or understanding how to interpret assessment results, CenterPoint can help. We work collaboratively with you and your team on item development, test forms design, standards alignment, data analytics and psychometric services. We work as your partners to build the assessments you need.

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  • Using Data to Inform Instruction

    Information is power – for students, for educators and for families – and supports the path to college- and career-readiness.

     

    To make good use of assessment data, teachers need to understand test goals, what results mean, and how those results link to instructional practices that can strengthen learning. Teachers can then determine appropriate interventions for students in need and choose strategies to help students advance when they have mastered topics and skills advance.

     

    Our team of experienced educators and assessment experts works with school and district leaders to deliver a range of assessment solutions. This includes providing provide actionable information and customized professional development that supports teachers in successfully leveraging the information that high-quality assessments can provide.

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  • Preventing the Achievement Gap

    CenterPoint team includes educators and former district leaders with an average of 20 years of experience in teaching reading and early literacy instructional strategies.

     

    We provide in-person and web-based professional development to educators of grades PreK–3 to aid them in developing expertise in Language Arts/Literacy instruction and assessment. This training, aligned to state standards, is grounded in an integrated approach to reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. We customize our professional learning/instructional practice offerings in early literacy to meet the needs of individual schools and districts, including support for English language learners and students identified with special needs.

     

    The CenterPoint team has also developed formative instructional tasks for grades K–2 that create a foundation for students to start and stay on track in the early years. They provide educators with complete lesson plans and teaching materials, as well as aligned checklists and rubrics that give information about the knowledge and skills of the students in their classrooms, allowing educators to adjust instruction as necessary. [link to Previ PLC]

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