…throughout the coming year. The 2014 Education Policy Platform focused on comprehensive literacy, equity, and assessments and included professional learning and financial investments. A review of the 2015 Education Policy…
…development updated the group on federal policy developments and our platform while invited guests discussed our Assessment Task Force and CCCC policy work. In the afternoon a group of us…
…through processes and testing programs that many educators found extremely problematic. But the new law did not as much end assessments as shift responsibilities and procedures for them onto the…
…Project-Based Learning”. Assessment: Assessment is different from grading. Especially at the beginning of the semester, when I am still getting to know my students, I observe and capture a series…
…from NCTE and ReadWriteThink.org that may help. Create a partnership with families by structuring student reflection and family response through daily and weekly student self-assessment as described in the lesson…
…“Teaching to the Test”: Rethinking Accountability and Assessment for English Language Learners, their new book from NCTE. The progress ELLs make can go unrecognized in the face of low standardized…
…statement/belief, five stars; if they are indifferent about it, three stars; and if they disagree with it, one star. This self-assessment requires students to reflect on their prior experiences with…
…discount on all our books through the end of the month. Use the code APPRECIATE2018. Happy reading! Shop now Beyond “Teaching to the Test”: Rethinking Accountability and Assessment for…
…Arts Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady decline in the offering of the “arts” in our schools. In this assessment era, electives are supplanted by additional…
…assessments helped to nurture inquiry, curiosity, and wonder? If administrators could create contexts for inquiry? If policymakers were its chief advocates? What if our students learned to use writing and…
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