AWE Meeting Wednesday, May 6, 4:00 PM

Hello AEA Members, Students, Parents, and Andover Community Members,

The extraordinary current context and crisis has put immense pressure on our civic institutions including public education. The Andover Warriors for Education (AWE), a coalition that formed in February to give the community and educators a forum and an enhanced voice to improve Andover Public Schools, proposes that now is not the time to delay our work and outreach. To that effect, we will facilitate a virtual meeting this Wednesday to re-introduce our project in collaboration with researcher Jack Schneider and his team to begin developing local measurement systems for quality public education. With the state’s overdue decision to cancel MCAS high stakes standardized testing this year, the time to discuss authentic and democratically designed measurements of school quality is now! Our students are more than a test, so join the conversation. We will also discuss remote learning- what has been good and what you are concerned about in Andover. All are welcome, and meeting sign-in information will be sent out soon.