The Augusta Area School District uses two important tools to monitor our growth towards our continuous improvement goals that are outlined in our District's Strategic Plan in the form of our Four Core Strategies. These tools serve as our accountability measuring stick. The two tools that are used include our District's Balanced Scorecard which outlines our key performance objectives, how we plan to measure our growth, and the results we are striving for. The second tool the District uses as an accountability barometer is our performance dashboard which is depicted below.

The dashboard measures results related directly to our Four Core Strategies. The results the dashboard specifically monitors and reports on are: the number of co-curricular opportunities available for students, percentage of graduating seniors that pursue postsecondary education, ACT composite score, number of students that perform at a level of proficiency in literacy using multiple data points, number of students that perform at a level of proficiency in math using multiple data points, number of office discipline referrals, number of Advanced Placement & Dual Credit College Courses offered by our staff, and job satisfaction of the District's employees. The dashboard offers an in-depth look at key areas of performance for our District. 

Furthermore as the State of Wisconsin and the Nation shift to a focus on ensuring students are prepared for life after high school, our school district uses these metics to ensure we are using multi-faceted, research-based methods of measuring student readiness for college, career, and life. 

According to the Association of National School Superintendents (AASA), "America's schools have a profound responsibility to ensure that our nation's students are college ready and career ready. Standardized test scores-traditionally used as the primary readiness indicator-do not always provide an accurate representation of our students' potential. Like the global economy, today's students are driven by ideas and innovations. They should not be reduced down to, or defined by, a single test score. Our students are More than One Score."

AASA details the Redefining Ready movement in this manner, "Redefining Ready! is a national initiative launched by the AASA to introduce new research-based metrics to more appropriately assess that students are college ready, career ready, and life ready. Wisconsin is proud to have launched a statewide movement to ensure that every one of our students graduates career and college ready. The Redefining Ready metrics to comprehensively measure learning outcomes, drive innovation and improvement, and communicate transparently with stakeholders about our work and our success."