Where our work drives Lasting change.
Across four interconnected areas of focus, Momentum partners with education leaders to make systems more responsive — especially for the students those systems too often miss.
30+ States our work has impacted.
Years evaluating alternative schools
Areas of focus one connected system
One Goal ensuring all students have access to a quality education.
Four Areas One Goal
The School, Performance, and Policy Database is at the core of Momentum's work - at times informing and impating state law, at other times supporting with or relating to individual schools.
School, Performance, and Policy Databases.
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School performance — measured against what schools are actually trying to do.
Fostering Charter School Growth Through State Loan Programs
Public assets, fair access, and suitable, affordable facilities for charter schools.
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Two decades of experience evaluating the schools other systems struggle to measure.
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Using Momentum's considerable data and decades of experience to strengthen schools and expand opportunity.
- 01 Accountability Policy & Practice
- 02 Charter School Facilities & Finance
- 03 School Evaluation
- 04 School Support
Accountability Policy & Practice
Momentum's accountability work focuses on school performance with an emphasis on highly specialized schools that are not well measured by typical state accountability systems — including alternative education campuses, standalone schools focused on students with learning disabilities, and schools with non-traditional instructional design (Montessori, Project-Based Learning, Dual Language Immersion, Competency-Based Learning, and more).
what we do here
Measure selection and alignment
Performance framework development
School, network, and portfolio evaluation
Policy analysis
Policy development
"Designed an alternative-education performance framework that recognizes the work serving over-age, undercredited learners returning to high school."
If You're Rebuilding The System Around The Learner — Start Here.
Momentum supports and collaborates with a wide variety of K-12 education stakeholders to inform how they can improve policies and practices to ensure all students have access to a high quality education, including schools and school networks, SEAs, LEAs, and charter school authorizers, local and national non-profit groups, and policy makers.
Policy Makers
Designing accountability systems that recognize specialized school’s missions.
Authorizers & Networks
Evaluating portfolios of schools for networks, authorizers, and charter school lenders.
Partner Organizations
Momentum provide policy and data analysis for other non-profit and advocacy groups to inform their strategic priorities.
Partner Organizations
Supporting schools to strengthen their practices, from diagnostic reviews to improvement planning and implementation suppport.
"School performance — measured against what schools are actually trying to do."