The Sustainability Rubric is a tool for SEAs to use in assessing the sustainability of any reform initiative (for example, implementing an educator effectiveness system). The rubric introduces a succinct description of the three primary categories of sustainability: context for sustaining reform, system capacity and performance management. The full rubric covers 19 sustainability elements and moves along a continuum to characterize inadequate to exemplary for each element, providing a set of guiding "look-fors". The rubric was intentionally designed to be content agnostic, to be utilized within a variety of education reform areas. The design of the Sustainability Rubric allows for later re-testing to determine the SEA's progress along the continuum. This version, finalized in April 2015, was edited based on feedback received from six States that piloted the tool in 2014.