-: My name is Lisa Stooksberry.
I'm the Deputy Executive Director
at the National Assessment Governing Board.
The Governing Board sets policy
for the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
which is often referred to as the Nation's Report Card.
The Governing Board sets policy
for what students should know, and be able to do,
in grades four, eight, and 12,
to give us a yardstick, or a benchmark,
of the progress states and large urban districts
are making in student achievement.
Our work, as a staff to support the governing board,
looks like engaging with educators,
and curriculum experts, teachers, principals,
to really understand what's happening
at the local and state level.
So we're listening to them, the experts,
we aren't trying to be the experts, ourselves,
we're trying to provide a convening opportunity
for the experts to come to the table
to provide that kind of guidance.
So our primary responsibility
is to ensure that the Governing Board
has the information it needs
to make the decisions that it does in setting policy.
We work with experts across the country
in establishing the frameworks in the content areas.
We work in setting the achievement levels,
so that, from a measurement standpoint,
the Governing Board can stand behind
what it means for a student to be
proficient in a subject area.
And then we work very closely with our partner,
The National Center for Education Statistics,
which is the operations and administration arm of NAEP.
So a busy day looks like
talking to a number of people from across the country
who are interested in serving on the Governing Board.
The Governing Board, it's 26 members,
and not only do they represent a wide variety of fields
in and outside of education,
but they are representative
of the United States,
and representative of all the diversity
that the United States has to hold.
So, any given day is talking to folks
who wanna be on the Governing Board,
and how to make that happen.
It's really, a typical day is engaging with the partners
and their constituents, who we all share the common goal
of really furthering education through a policy lens.