Joe Levy
@joebookslevy.bsky.social
AVP Accreditation & Quality Improvement @ Excelsior University 📖 Student Affairs Assessment Leaders Board Member 📖 Advocate for Educational Quality Assurance
Dad | Music-Lover | Big Eater
Dad | Music-Lover | Big Eater
I support this! In an effort to help, I offer this as your Figure 4.1
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November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I support this! In an effort to help, I offer this as your Figure 4.1
If you like our style/like what you hear (or just generally like #assessment) you should check out the book 📚
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
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Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice
This book unpacks the philosophies and theories behind assessment and builds upon that foundation with practical, how-to guidance for effective practice. Renowned assessment experts Levy and Jankowski...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you like our style/like what you hear (or just generally like #assessment) you should check out the book 📚
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
Sorry this was your experience. Glad you’re pressing forward 🤘🏻
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Sorry this was your experience. Glad you’re pressing forward 🤘🏻
Sorry I missed this! I’ll have to keep eyes peeled for the next one. Glad to hear it was a big success! Thanks for your labor here!
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Sorry I missed this! I’ll have to keep eyes peeled for the next one. Glad to hear it was a big success! Thanks for your labor here!
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September 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Hard to hold CPS accountable to their own (and/or the state’s) rules when the quality assurance entity isn’t doing its job. Makes any school-based issue/concern escalation for review feel pointless. No wonder CPS can be so comfortable w/ opaque practices & flipppantly tell folks to FOIA for info
August 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hard to hold CPS accountable to their own (and/or the state’s) rules when the quality assurance entity isn’t doing its job. Makes any school-based issue/concern escalation for review feel pointless. No wonder CPS can be so comfortable w/ opaque practices & flipppantly tell folks to FOIA for info
Whether a fan of history or practical tips for current #assessment practice, click below to learn more about our book, "Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice". You can see table of contents, book description, reviews, & even pre-order it! (pt 5 / 5)
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Whether a fan of history or practical tips for current #assessment practice, click below to learn more about our book, "Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice". You can see table of contents, book description, reviews, & even pre-order it! (pt 5 / 5)
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
This text would be unique by:
-Delving in detail re: historical & philosophical roots/context of where we came from & why things are as is
-Speak to tip/tricks re: successful #assessment practice for academic & #studentaffairs on equal footing.
We think we did that - & more! 💪
(pt 4 / )
-Delving in detail re: historical & philosophical roots/context of where we came from & why things are as is
-Speak to tip/tricks re: successful #assessment practice for academic & #studentaffairs on equal footing.
We think we did that - & more! 💪
(pt 4 / )
August 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This text would be unique by:
-Delving in detail re: historical & philosophical roots/context of where we came from & why things are as is
-Speak to tip/tricks re: successful #assessment practice for academic & #studentaffairs on equal footing.
We think we did that - & more! 💪
(pt 4 / )
-Delving in detail re: historical & philosophical roots/context of where we came from & why things are as is
-Speak to tip/tricks re: successful #assessment practice for academic & #studentaffairs on equal footing.
We think we did that - & more! 💪
(pt 4 / )
Channeling Captain Planet, we wondered if our powers could combine to produce a text - for practitioners, #faculty, & #gradstudents - that illustrated both the historical & practical foundations of #assessment for academic & #studentaffairs. (pt 3 / )
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August 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Channeling Captain Planet, we wondered if our powers could combine to produce a text - for practitioners, #faculty, & #gradstudents - that illustrated both the historical & practical foundations of #assessment for academic & #studentaffairs. (pt 3 / )
Having my own experience working/consulting in #highered, I'd been on a kick creating how-to blogs & resources for nearly every aspect of #assessment practice, approach, & leadership. I loved giving practical advice, but it was all separated by topic & housed in different places (pt 2 / )
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Having my own experience working/consulting in #highered, I'd been on a kick creating how-to blogs & resources for nearly every aspect of #assessment practice, approach, & leadership. I loved giving practical advice, but it was all separated by topic & housed in different places (pt 2 / )
Multiple situations, circumstances, and people at school and district level make me question what must be CPS-prescribed understanding/definitions for concepts like:
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Multiple situations, circumstances, and people at school and district level make me question what must be CPS-prescribed understanding/definitions for concepts like:
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
And given my career working with state and federal governments, education boards, & accreditors/quality assurance bodies, I will be ready to escalate if I continue to experience systemic deniability & commitment to status quo instead of commitment to educational excellence & student success
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June 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And given my career working with state and federal governments, education boards, & accreditors/quality assurance bodies, I will be ready to escalate if I continue to experience systemic deniability & commitment to status quo instead of commitment to educational excellence & student success
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I will continue to try & work collaboratively with collegiality among people at my school & the district, but I will not be silent or complicit in violating educational standards/practices, expectations of elected officials, CTU rights, & state law.
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June 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I will continue to try & work collaboratively with collegiality among people at my school & the district, but I will not be silent or complicit in violating educational standards/practices, expectations of elected officials, CTU rights, & state law.
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With teachers & admin overworked & undertrained for roles in the CPS machine, where the community can be support & help carry the load, CPS standard response is: keep parents at arms’ length, actively discourage transparency, & gaslight quality assurance efforts/ppl as troublemakers/anti-school
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June 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
With teachers & admin overworked & undertrained for roles in the CPS machine, where the community can be support & help carry the load, CPS standard response is: keep parents at arms’ length, actively discourage transparency, & gaslight quality assurance efforts/ppl as troublemakers/anti-school
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Offices & individuals also often push off info requests by pointing to FOIA processes, thus wasting more time & resources of more ppl than initially needed. Cherry on top is its often discouraging info sharing from parties/individuals already supposed to share by nature of job/role/function.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Offices & individuals also often push off info requests by pointing to FOIA processes, thus wasting more time & resources of more ppl than initially needed. Cherry on top is its often discouraging info sharing from parties/individuals already supposed to share by nature of job/role/function.
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CPS Legal/law department is quick to try and intimidate and confuse parents with loosely-related laws around surveys/data collection, but reluctantly admits it’s their conservative preference/advice driving decisions and not in fact violations of FERPA or ISSRA.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
CPS Legal/law department is quick to try and intimidate and confuse parents with loosely-related laws around surveys/data collection, but reluctantly admits it’s their conservative preference/advice driving decisions and not in fact violations of FERPA or ISSRA.
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I continue to find the district at odds with itself.
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/
June 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I continue to find the district at odds with itself.
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/