This challenge scenario depicts five individuals who comprise a sub-committee of the larger district leadership team. The sub-committee has been convened to consider the measurement and data capacity issues involved in the district's performance award program. The scenario highlights:

1. A Chief Academic Officer’s desire to proactively deal with several difficult issues central to the district's performance award plan
2. A Director of Data and Information Systems desire to ensure the district has the capacity to to handle both the measurement and data warehouse dimensions of a performance award system
3. A Regional Educational Service Center Leader's desire to help enhance the district's data capacity and the ability to calculate value-added measures of effectiveness
4. A Teacher Association Leader's desire to ensure that the ways in which the effectiveness of all teachers is being measured is accurate and fair
5. A University Professor's desire to help the district draw upon a broad base of expertise in the realms of measurement and data capacity