What are students’ responses helping us understand?
Assessment literacy connects the demands of a task with the understanding and reasoning it makes visible.
What might evidence from math and science learning invite us to reconsider about instruction? I work with schools and districts through assessment literacy, content knowledge, cognitive coaching, and continuous improvement—helping educators develop their own insights and decisions.
Early in my career as a district academic coach, I realized something that changed everything: most districts were guessing about CAASPP. I met educators and researchers who'd done the deep analysis. The test wasn't random. It measured specific claims around specific standards at specific cognitive levels.
I dove into SBAC design documents, test blueprints, and cognitive complexity frameworks. I figured out not just what the test measured, but why. I became one of the few consultants in California who understood CAASPP at the architectural level.
I took that framework to the classroom. I taught secondary mathematics in high-poverty schools—99% students of color, 95% free lunch—for six years. I tested the theory against reality.
I discovered that understanding assessment architecture is one thing. Helping teachers implement it when they're underwater with 180 students and a mile-long curriculum is another. I built the bridge.
"The system only matters if it works with teachers as they actually are—overwhelmed, underfunded, and brilliant."
A school where I was teaching was identified for Differentiated Assistance. The principal asked me to lead math improvement. This wasn't optional. This was "fix it or we're facing CDE intervention."
I implemented everything I'd built: targeted standards, claims analysis, formative assessment alignment, teacher capacity building, and continuous improvement cycles. The math department started outperforming the district. Not through test prep shortcuts. Through teachers understanding why and how.
Everything is clear now. AchieveMetrics isn't a test bank. It's not test prep. It's the framework I built over 10 years—theory grounded in SBAC analysis, tested in real classrooms, proven to work in high-poverty schools under pressure.
I work with districts in DA status because I've been there. I know what works. I know why it works. I can help you build it.
My consulting centers on educators’ thinking, agency, and shared learning. The Test Bank provides evidence and resources; coaching creates space to examine what that evidence might mean in your context.
Assessment literacy connects the demands of a task with the understanding and reasoning it makes visible.
Content knowledge and cognitive coaching support professional reflection across mathematics and science.
Continuous improvement creates room for educators to develop, study, and refine changes together.
The AchieveMetrics Test Bank brings assessment resources, diagnostics, practice, and shared evidence into one place. These tools can inform the broader questions schools and districts explore through consulting.
Explore SBAC-style questions by grade or course, claim, target, depth of knowledge, and item type. Individual questions and connected performance tasks make space for concepts, problem solving, modeling, data analysis, and communicating reasoning.
Consulting connection: assessment literacy, curriculum alignment, and conversations about conceptual understanding.
Explore NGSS/CAST-style questions across Life, Physical, and Earth & Space Sciences, including engineering design. Selection connects disciplinary core ideas and performance expectations with science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, depth of knowledge, and item types. Phenomena and investigations give reasoning a context.
Consulting connection: science content knowledge and reflection on three-dimensional learning and assessment.
Preview questions and explanations, save and reuse items, build assignments, and print worksheets with answer keys. Supported assignable item types are scored automatically; written-response items remain available for printing.
Consulting connection: examining task demands, rigor, and shared understandings of proficiency.
Math and science offer full diagnostics, quick checks, focused claim or domain forms, and performance tasks; science also includes a practices form. Results connect students with personal adaptive practice plans, feedback, and worked explanations.
Consulting connection: interpreting evidence and considering learning needs without assuming a score explains their causes.
Class snapshots, missed-question views, focus areas, student groups, diagnostic reports, and CSV exports help teachers explore patterns. Math evidence is organized by reporting area and target; science evidence includes domains, core ideas, and practices. Targeted group practice connects evidence with opportunities to learn.
Consulting connection: inquiry into instructional patterns and the evidence a team considers meaningful.
Teams share class-level results and support Plan–Do–Study–Act cycles with root-cause evidence, a change idea, a goal, observations, and a decision. Student names and answers stay with each class’s teacher. Teacher Pro also offers AI class and team insights as prompts for professional reflection.
Consulting connection: PLC learning, cognitive coaching, leadership support, and educator-owned decisions about what to explore next.
Eligible full diagnostics provide estimated scale scores and achievement levels, alongside reporting-area results when coverage permits. Math quick checks offer rough estimates; science quick checks and practices-only forms provide practice information rather than scale scores. These are independent practice-resource estimates, not official CAASPP/CAST results or guarantees of future performance.
Free teacher access includes one selected course, checked-bank questions, printable worksheets, one class with assignments, one trial adaptive diagnostic, and Teams. Teacher Pro adds unlimited classes and diagnostics and AI insights. Students use the site free. School and district licenses are available by inquiry; consulting engagements are scoped separately.
How might math and science evidence connect with the wider instructional system? Across four phases, consulting supports inquiry into current conditions, shared understanding, professional learning, and the capacity to sustain improvement.
These are the actual tools, guides, and frameworks I've built from 20 years of classroom experience and consulting work. Each is designed for a specific role, moment, and outcome. The Five Root Causes system grew out of PLC work with high school math departments; the worksheets and protocols here are the generalized versions any team can use.
Your questions and context shape the engagement. Test Bank evidence can support the conversation alongside curriculum, student work, and educator experience. Planning, professional development, and sustained coaching can be combined to fit your school or district.
What are you noticing in math and science learning? What would you like to understand more deeply about instruction, assessment, or your school’s systems? Let’s begin with your questions and consider what support could be useful.