ABSTRACT
The accountability movement, including legislation such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has brought into focus a clear call for all school practices to show that decisions are data driven. School-based accountability is meant to influence the decisions that impact the overall school system, the classroom, and educational practices aimed at the individual. Although this mandate has arguably caused school systems to be better equipped to demonstrate that the reading curriculum they selected, for example, has an evidence base, the ecosystem that is a school building does not easily lend itself to simple selections of evidence-based practices that sum to a total data-driven experience for children.
