What You Need to Know When Establishing Success Criteria in the Classroom 3.29.18 Kathy Dyer If you’re a practitioner of formative instructional practice, or formative assessment, then you know that one of the... More
Eight Daily Classroom Data Sources to Empower Student-Directed Learning 2.22.18 Kathy Dyer Daniel Venables, in a TeachThought blog that I still often refer to, talks about data as tools teachers can use to... More
The Ultimate List – 65 Digital Tools and Apps to Support Formative Assessment Practices 1.9.18 Kathy Dyer There is no shortage of strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers (and students) who use formative... More
Three Ways to Build Support for Consistent Formative Assessment 12.26.17 Kathy Dyer When we think of educational assessments, we need to think about all assessment practices. Formative assessment may be... More
Using Formative Assessment as a Compass for Daily Planning and Differentiating Instruction 12.5.17 Kathy Dyer Developing autonomy as a learner and becoming self-regulated with an evident sense of self-efficacy are all supported... More
How One School Used Formative Practices to Take Students from Below Norms to Above Average 11.9.17 Jean Fleming At Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School (OLOH), in South Bend, Indiana, educators faced a universal challenge. As... More
Rebooting Your Classroom – Five Ways Formative Assessment Can Help 8.29.17 Kathy Dyer One blog that I’ve bookmarked, and I re-visit each summer without fail is Terry Heick’s post – The Difference... More
RTI: Is there a place for peer-to-peer tutoring during intervention? 8.3.17 Virginia "Jenny" Williams Among my stack (or should I say bulging digital folder!) of summer reading was an interesting article from Science News... More
11 Teacher Learning Community Traits that Can Bring Positive Change 6.23.17 Kathy Dyer Changing teacher practice – improving pedagogy – takes time. When teachers get together to learn about ways to... More
The Educational Pie-Baking Contest 5.19.17 Michael Koranda Since the very first county fair, assessment has been the key to communicating success. Let your mind wander a bit to... More
Moving Aside the Assessment Fog 3.14.17 Kathy Dyer The idea of “assessment fog” made me smile. John McCarthy titled his Edutopia blog post with it – 3 Guidelines to... More
My Experience Shifting Students to “Learners” 3.10.17 Jill Valdez I have to believe that the most powerful word in the education arena is “learner.” It is transformative. It... More
