What are the Communities of Practice offerings for the 24-25 school year? Read below to meet one facilitator team. For more updates, visit our CoP page.
Meet your 24-25 CoP Facilitator
Ira Rigaud is the Associate Director of Implementation for Assessment for Good based in Oak Park, IL. As a former teacher, he is grateful for the opportunity to work with schools and communities to help them find ways to better serve their students. Prior to joining AFG, he was a Partners Success Director with Ellevation, a company that built software to serve English Learners throughout the country. He also co-led an elementary school as the Director of Operations at North Star Academy in Newark, NJ. He taught for eight years, most recently as a founding teacher at Ocean Hill Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, NY, part of the Uncommon Schools network. He was a 2004 Teach for America Corps Member in the Bronx, and also worked for TFA training and developing new teachers as a curriculum specialist at TFA’s Summer Institute. Ira speaks Haitian Creole and received his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and an MBA from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor.
CoP Overview
In this Community of Practice facilitated by Assessment for Good (AFG), participants will learn about co-design, the importance of centering learners when designing new tools, and about how new types of formative assessments can positively impact learner experiences and outcomes. Their focus will be contributing to the work to build formative assessments that measure whole child development and are built with Black and Latinx learners.. They will be active participants in a research study, learning best practices around participation and sharing insights related to their participation. Ultimately, participants will experience how contributing to active research
Participants will work with AFG. AFG is an inclusive and highly collaborative R&D program committed to creating asset-based formative assessments and interventions that are culturally affirming and honor the continuum of a learner’s development across academic, emotional, and social domains. We conduct research alongside communities that is:
- Targeted innovation with Black and Latinx populations
- Careful and sustained attention to who and how the innovative prototype/tool privileges and oppresses
- Purposeful alignment to the needs of the target population and the intersectional identities of the members of those populations
Centering Student Voice: Co-Designing Whole Child Formative Assessment Tools Alongside Black and Latin Learners will be meeting at the following dates and times for 24-25 School Year (all ET). Unless noted all meetings are held virtually on Zoom.
- October 8 2pm ET
- November 12 2pm ET
- December 10 2pm ET
- January 29 (in person at The Renaissance Hotel – Nashville, TN)
- February 18 2pm ET
- March 11 2pm ET
- April 15 2pm ET
- May 13 2pm ET
- May 29 (CoP WRAP Party) 3 – 4:30pm ET
