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What a difference a word makes: Assessment FOR learning rather than assessment OF learning helps students succeed (read article)
Learning teams can help teachers shift their understanding of assessment to realize how to assess for learning.
By Rick Stiggins
, Jan Chappuis
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Assessment: Learning communities can use it to engineer a bridge connecting teaching and learning (read article)
Helping teachers improve assessment may be the most promising means of reform.
By Dylan Wiliam
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Three skillful moves to assessment for the busy principal (read article)
Principals can combine teacher observations with an emphasis on assessment to promote learning.
By Kathleen Topolka Jorissen
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What inside-track advantage? Humility is a bonus lesson when a district administrator takes a professional development initiative to her former school (read article)
A district staff developer returned to lead her school-level colleagues to new learning, but learned a few lessons herself.
By Janna Smith
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Teamwork on assessments creates powerful professional development (read article)
The collaborative process outlined here helps teachers develop their own performance tasks and scoring rubrics.
By Jay McTighe
, Marcella Emberger
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A steadily flowing stream of information gives teachers much-needed data (read article)
Streamlining assessments using a continuum helped these middle school teachers better understand what students needed to learn.
By Thomas W. Many
, Jakicic Christine
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Wake-up call brings a jolt of alignment to the curriculum: Teacher leaders hear the warning and develop common assessments to improve student achievement (read article)
This Michigan middle school needed to change and found the means when teachers aligned the curriculum and developed common assessments.
By Robert A. Martin
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DEPARTMENTS |
From the toolbox (read article)
Cafe conversations engage teachers in collaborative dialogue.
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NSDC Standards (read article)
IC maps help educators find their way in implementing standards.
By Stephanie Hirsh
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Taking Measure (read article)
As patterns emerge, winning strategies seem clear.
By Robby Champion
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JSD Forum (read article)
Stop hanging fans do the laundry!
By Parker McMullen
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Group Wise (read article)
What groups talk about matters -- and how they talk matters, too.
By Robert J. Garmston
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Features |
Reality check: Survey highlights the disparity between the ideal and real in professional learning programs (read article)
The findings of this study of professional developments effect on teachers can help districts with planning.
By Christine Lowden
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The push to excellence: Teachers focus on professional learning to lift student achievement (read article)
An elementary school staff focused on long-term professional learning to change teaching in math and found student achievement soared.
By David S. Allen
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