Hi All-

Just following up to Dina's blog post about small groups delving into researching specific questions.  Please check the projects on the Measures page and the tasks that have been given out to all of the group members.  We've teamed everyone up to start gathering resources and researching specific questions.  Raquel and Rachel will be working on the questions related to student-measures.  JoAnn and Connie will be working on the questions related to classroom-level measures.  And...Matthew and Sherman will be working on the questions related to school-level data.  We understand there may be more team members joining shortly so we will add them to groups as soon as possible. 

We are going to change the format a bit from what was posted yesterday and start a discussion thread on each of the specific question sets.  We think that will allow us to get a little more focused- please keep in mind that we all have access to reading any of the discussion threads and can share thoughts across groups.  Dina and I will be checking in and joining the discussions daily.  Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions.  As we listed in the tasks, our goal is to have key points to share with the whole team by 8/20.  We realize that is just around the corner but... HSG would like recommendations by the week of 8/24.

So...let's start discussing!!!  The new discussion threads will be posted this evening.  Thanks in advance for all of your time and effort on this!

Darcy and Dina