A user-friendly school-wide needs assessment and feedback system for school improvement.

The Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) provides unique tools and customized services to support professional growth, leadership development, and school improvement planning. Scroll down to learn more about CALL, Four Domains CALL, and WIDA SIS.

On CALL: 

What We Do
System Features
What Educators Say

We are a committed team with a unique system that meets the needs of your education organization


Focus on leadership.


Focus on improvement. 


Focus on the work.

  • Improvement Focused

    Provides actionable, formative feedback including customized strategies and action plans for school improvement.

  • Practice Based

    Surveys all educators in the organization to measure leadership practices and suggest strategies for school improvement.

  • Research Validated

    Developed and validated by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, through funding from the US Department of Education.

Four Domains CALL System

The Four Domains CALL System measures key instructional leadership practices at the school and district level that are aligned to the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement framework developed at the Center on School Turnaround at WestEd.

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WIDA School Improvement System

Developed in collaboration with WIDA, the WIDA School Improvement System (WIDA SIS) measures the key practices that support teaching of English Learners (ELs). The resulting data informs the professional development needs in a school to support teachers in their effort to support all students in the classroom.

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CALL-ECL

CALL for Equity-Centered Leadership

CALL for Equity-Centered Leadership (CALL-ECL) is a research project focused on the critical distributed leadership tasks that enhance equity in schools. CALL-ECL functions like other versions of CALL in that it provides action-oriented data for school leaders to support improvement work. CALL-ECL data is equity-centered, and provides guidance to leaders across the school. 

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WHAT EDUCATORS ARE SAYING...

"We need a way, not just to look at changes in test scores…we need to look at leading indicators. To what extent are we changing our practices?"

Jana Chang
Academic Officer, Kailua-Kalaheo Complex Area

"This year we’re a TSI school, so we have a need for improvement in serving some of our subgroup populations. We know what we’ve been doing is not meeting that need, so we were looking for something different."

Shevon Lopez
Principal, Ogden Preparatory Academy (UT)

"Now we're moving to the individual [student], and we're saying 'the student in front of me...who is this student? What do they need, and what is the appropriate scaffold to ensure the student has what they need?'"

Emlyn Frangiosa
Supervisor of Teaching & Learning, Avon Grove School District

From the creators of the CALL Leadership Assessment

Mapping Leadership


In 2009, University of Wisconsin Professors Richard Halverson and Carolyn Kelley set out to develop a school leadership assessment tool with a unique approach to inquiry and survey design. The result, the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL), is now being used across the country, and around the world, not only to assess school-wide leadership but to provide meaningful and timely feedback to school and district leaders. CALL’s distributive leadership framework, task-based approach to inquiry, and interactive formative feedback system show that “assessment” can be a meaningful experience for all involved.


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Call has worked...

with

60,000+

Educators

in

2000+

Schools

across

38

States

in

5+

Countries

WHERE EDUCATION LEADERS HAVE USED CALL