Center for Student Success - Services

Our services:

• Grant and program evaluations
  (e.g., Chalkboard CLASS Project, small high school conversion, and alternative education programs)
• Charter school evaluations
  (e.g., ODE incentive and implementation grants and program effectiveness/legal compliance)
• Professional development design and implementation
  (e.g., Professional Learning Communities training and leadership academies)
• Curriculum alignment
  (e.g., power standards development and curriculum mapping)
• Evaluation of online learning options
  (e.g., software comparisons and cost analysis)
• Research
  (e.g., literature review, synthesis of best practices, development of grant proposals, and design of formative/summative assessments)
• Ideas for working with marginal employees
  (e.g., support for plans of assistance)
• Conflict resolution
  (e.g., district/charter school relationships and school staff/principal issues)
• Support for new administrators
  (e.g., leadership academy and principal/superintendent training)
• Ideas for school board/superintendent relations
  (e.g., operating agreements, superintendent evaluation, and team building)

Our rates

Our rates are competitive with other academic and commercial organizations offering educational services.  Project cost will vary depending on the services required.  Initial consultation and estimates are provided free of charge.

Our clients include:

• K-12 school districts:
  Beaverton, Coos Bay, David Douglas, Gladstone, Gresham-Barlow, Hillsboro, Lincoln County, Newberg, North Bend, Oregon City, Portland Public Schools, Scio, and Tigard-Tualatin
• The Chalkboard Project/Foundations for a Better Oregon
  (Forest Grove, Sherwood, and Tillamook school districts)
• Portland Schools Foundation
• Educational Service District  112 in Vancouver, WA
• Multnomah Education Service District

“The Chalkboard Project is impressed with the excellent work that the Center has done as the third party evaluators for the CLASS Project.  The CLASS Project evaluation has been thorough and completed with the highest standards of excellence. Chalkboard appreciates the exemplary work of the Center for Student Success.”

Kate Dickson
Former Vice President for Education Policy
Chalkboard Project