Dec 8, 2025
Evergreen Park District 124: Strengthening Common Assessments With a Clearer View of Student Learning
By: Otus Team
Challenge
Evergreen Park needed a consistent way to assign, grade, and analyze standards-aligned common assessments across grades 3-8 while bringing key data sources together to support instructional decisions.
Results
Teachers now deliver aligned common assessments monthly, analyze unified academic and third-party data in one place, and use clearer student insights to support instruction, MTSS, and family conversations.
Key Product
Assessments, Standards-Based Grading, Data & Analytics
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Schools
1175
Students
6611
Assessments
202
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Year They Started with Otus
The Challenge
Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124 needed a consistent way for teachers in grades 3-8 to assign, grade, and analyze standards-aligned common assessments across all buildings. They also wanted a solution that offered flexibility for early elementary teachers who relied on paper-based student work, and a centralized place to bring together multiple data sources to better support instructional planning, MTSS, and family conversations.
The Solution
Evergreen Park adopted Otus to strengthen its districtwide common assessment process and bring student data together in one place. With Otus, teachers in grades 3-8 can assign common assessments aligned to Illinois priority standards, grade them using Advanced Assessments or rubrics, and analyze the results through shared data views. Early elementary teachers now use rubric scoring to ensure paper-based work can be included in the district’s broader assessment picture.
PowerSchool rostering and gradebook passback streamline teacher workflows, allowing assessments scored in Otus to automatically appear in teachers’ PowerSchool gradebooks. In addition to classroom assessments, the district imports third-party data, giving stakeholders a unified, easy-to-review collection of student information that supports MTSS and instructional planning.
The Results
Since implementing Otus, Evergreen Park has strengthened its assessment practices and improved how educators access and use student data. Otus has simplified formative assessment and standards tracking, giving teachers a clearer and more consistent picture of student learning.
“Otus has helped District 124 to align our common assessments across all of our elementary buildings, allowing us to use data in a more actionable way at the district, building, and classroom levels. This year we expanded our use to include our MTSS process. Otus houses all of our data sources making data analysis easier for stakeholders across the district.”
Dr. Ashley Carlson
Assistant Superintendent Curriculum and Instruction
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Evergreen Park District 124
In the 2024-25 school year alone, the district has graded over 6,000 assessments. Beyond these day-to-day workflows, Otus helps Evergreen Park unify academic, SEL, and third-party assessment data. With ACCESS/WIDA, Aimsweb, STAR, and state assessment information in one place, district teams have clearer insights into student needs and can use that information to support instruction, PLC discussions, and MTSS planning.
Teachers and instructional coaches rely on shared data views in Otus during PLCs to guide conversations, compare performance across grade levels and buildings, and plan next steps for instruction and student support.
With Otus student profiles, teachers can share a clearer, more organized picture of student progress during conversations with families.
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