Aligned·By·Design is the perfect fit for Race to the Top

Winning proposals for the Race to the Top funding must qualify under five Criteria, and Aligned·By·Design ensures States can easily strongly qualify under all of them.  It's the visionary, end-to-end system that Race to the Top funds were allocated to enable States to envision, and it already exists! Below is a explanation of how Aligned·By·Design qualifies under each Criteria, the justification for the bullets in the graphic on the Selection Criteria page.

State Reform Conditions Criteria

• Aligned·By·Design provides the tools enabling multiple teams of people to develop, manage, align, and share high-quality Standards, Classroom Curriculum, and  Assessments down at the discrete Knowledge/Skill item level, as well as maintaining the alignment as all materials evolve. 
• Because Aligned·By·Design links all Educational materials back to common Knowledge/Skill items, it is an invaluable tool for transitioning from current State Standards to Common Core Standards, as different Standards are easily compared to see mutually exclusive items instantly.

Data Systems to Support Instruction

• Aligned·By·Design is a web-based optimized data system that tracks Student and Teacher performance, with at a glance real-time views of which Students have learned which Knowledge/Skill items, yielding the exact data needed for high-quality management of the entire Educational system. Because it is an end-to-end system, Aligned·By·Design tracks performance of all Education materials and personnel across all Education roles.
• Aligned·By·Design includes both a cross-sectional data module and a longitudinal data module that supply new, detailed, real-time data streams without requiring additional human resources.  The cross-sectional system provides the analysis tools for managing learning outcomes of the “live” student in the classroom now, and the longitudinal system provides the analysis tools for managing the educational system.

Great Teachers and Leaders

• Aligned·By·Design enables management and alignment of all Educational materials and the tracking of performance of those materials at the lowest possible denomination, the discrete Knowledge/Skill item, and therefore provides hyper-accurate, real-time "effectiveness analysis" of Lesson Plans, Units, Teachers, Schools, Districts, and States.  Not only does Aligned·By·Design provide the effectiveness analysis that supports and assists Teachers and Principals, it promotes sharing of what works with other Teachers, allowing the effectiveness to spread quickly and naturally.
• By providing Teachers the proper materials and tools they need to accomplish their mission, Aligned·By·Design lets Teachers do what they're trained to do and what they excel at, developing Classroom Curriculum and imparting the Knowledge/Skill items to the Students - Teaching!
  • Better Standards - Lists of discrete Knowledge/Skills items to teach per Course
  • Proper Tools for accomplishing the Educational Mission at hand

Turning Around Struggling Schools

• Aligned·By·Design provides immediate organization, management, alignment, tracking, analysis, accountability, and sharing across all materials, teams, and roles
• Aligned·By·Design improves ANY School (or Classroom, District, State). Because it is content-independent it can be easily used by any school, all schools can start with whatever they currently use and start improving immediately, whether they are at the top, in the middle, or at the bottom

Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps

• Aligned·By·Design is a highly scalable, enterprise solution that can be used by all  Administrators, Principals, Teachers, Students, and Parents in a State, and because it is an online web application, States, Districts, and Teachers have unlimited capacity to disseminate new materials, plans, and notices instantly, and Educators have real-time feedback and analysis of materials and performance at the State, District, School, Teacher, and Student levels.  Proper use of this Knowledge/Skill item level analysis will enable sustainable, steady improvements in Student achievement, graduation rates, and Gap closure.