Office of Achievement and Accountability

Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger, Chief Accountability Officer

Room 203

Phone number: 410-396-8962

Fax: 410-396-8627

The Office of Achievement and Accountability (OAA) administers assessments with fidelity, ensures high quality and accurate data reporting, increases the use of research through policy analytics and program evaluation, develops formative and summative tools measuring school effectiveness, integrates and shares knowledge of schools throughout the district. Through our work, OAA maximizes the use of student performance data to inform and increase data-driven decision-making.

Primary responsibilities include:

1.    Ensure that all components of the administration of state and district mandated assessments are conducted with integrity
2.    Produce and maintain a data archive of key City schools student- and school-level data with basic definitions and data source information
3.    Provide timely, high-quality research and analytics to inform policy decision-making
4.    Report annual state and national test scores and graduation rates
5.    Disseminate research results to the City Schools’ community in a useful and understandable format
6.    Increase the analysis, reporting, and discussion across the district around Common Core and College and Career Readiness standards
7.    Develop and implement tools and processes measuring teacher, school leader, and school performance that promotes consistent and transparent accountability
8.    Build systemic processes and tools to enhance the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of information across City Schools’ data using data systems