What if the Whole Class was Participating? 11.13.18 Kathy Dyer When most people think about assessments, they still think mainly of summative or perhaps interim, and yet assessment... More
3 Ways Formative Assessment Supports Students (and Teachers) in the Classroom 9.25.18 Kathy Dyer Formative assessment is about using instructional practices that provide evidence of where students are in their... More
Trying on Formative Assessment in Your Classroom – How to Keep It Simple 9.11.18 Kathy Dyer We often use interim and summative assessments to measure student learning a unit or chapter at a time. But when it... More
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
