Developing Your Formative Assessment Muscles 7.3.18 Kathy Dyer As we ease into summer, I like to think teachers and educators have a little more time and space to think about their... More
Personalized Learning is Student-Directed Learning 6.14.18 Kathy Dyer This article in EdWeek highlights an idea I love – WIN sessions in Henry County, Georgia. WIN, or What I Need,... More
Formative Instructional Practice – Using the Results and Data are What Matters 5.29.18 Kathy Dyer In a post about teaching techniques, Maryellen Weimer cautioned readers about loving techniques for the wrong reasons.... More
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
