The TMC provides personalized job-embedded coaching, consulting, and professional development for educators serving all learners.
Every student deserves to be educated in an environment with peers where they feel safe, seen, supported and challenged.
Yet only 63% of students with disabilities in Washington spend most of their day in general education classrooms, making Washington among the most restrictive states in the nation when it comes to special education.
Resulting inequities, such as disproportionate proficiency, graduation, and college acceptance rates, are exacerbated for exceptional learners identifying as Black, Indigenous, and persons of color. Black students in Washington are more than six times as likely than their non-Black peers to be identified with a disability. Barriers to inclusive education practices that impact students with disabilities and multilingual learners and widen the racial opportunity gap must be addressed.
Our Mission
The True Measure Collaborative’s mission is to foster collaboration and build educator capacity in service of equitable educational opportunities for all students – especially students with disabilities and multilingual learners.
Our Commitment to Anti-Racist Practices
Our commitment to support schools to build environments in which every student is seen, safe, supported, and challenged means that we must do our work with an anti-discriminatory and anti-racist lens.
We know that students of the global majority are disproportionately classified as students with disabilities, and this further exacerbates systemic inequities that our young people and their families continue to face. We support partner schools in the work of addressing disproportionality by identifying school-based data trends in inclusionary practices and consulting with leaders on how to improve equitable practices in their schools.
Our Core Values
Inclusion
We believe all students and all educators deserve equitable access to robust learning supports. We value and celebrate individuals’ unique contributions to community.
Growth
We take a strengths-based approach to push for growth in ourselves and each other. We advocate for systems change. We lead with empathy, humility, and vulnerability.
Collaboration
We use open and inclusive dialogue to identify priorities and find solutions. When we work together all students thrive.