9.6.16 Top 5 Tips for Fall Testing The school supply shelves look pretty depleted – in fact, the Halloween costumes are already out! For many, that means it’s the first week of school, and for others, you have been back in school... Read more
9.1.16 Six Things Teachers and District Leaders Can Do To Support Formative Assessment Many district leaders and administrators use the valuable summer months to plan for the return of teachers and students to the classroom. In many schools, formative assessment practices will be... Read more
8.9.16 Three Ways People Learn – A Summer Refresher on Teaching for Understanding Using some existing educational research, we can begin to piece together how people learn, which can ultimately inform how teachers should teach. Makes sense right? While there are certainly numerous... Read more
7.26.16 Data Comparability, Norms, and Adjusting for New State Standards Earlier this year, I wrote a blog on the importance of data comparability in today’s assessment environment. With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), many states are likely to be... Read more
7.12.16 Using MAP and SN in the Co-Taught Classroom Recently, while sitting in a session at the Institute Designed for Educating All Students (IDEAS) conference on St. Simons Island, GA, I was reminded about the purpose of the Individuals with... Read more
6.30.16 Summer School – School and District Leaders’ To-Do List for Formative Assessment Success With summer fast approaching teachers often have a laundry list of to-do’s, books to read, traveling to catch up on, and other tasks that typically get shelved during the busy school year. This is... Read more
6.16.16 How many students and schools actually make a year and a half of growth during a year? If all students are going to be college and career ready, many have a lot of catching up to do. And one question NWEA researchers are frequently asked is “What is a reasonable growth target... Read more
6.3.16 Five Ways to Promote Summer Lovin’…of Math! June: time to hang on by our fingernails, but also time to set families up for summer learning success. Families all hear us saying that reading logs and library cards are keys to summer reading... Read more
5.31.16 Six Steps to Formative Assessment Success in the Classroom In a post not too long ago, I highlighted three reasons to prioritize formative assessment in the classroom. Formative assessment may be a buzz word in education these days, but it’s more than... Read more
5.10.16 What does equity and accessibility look like within assessment? So what do a pair of exercise balls, an old lectern, and tiny kindergarten-size chairs have to do with second grade education? For me they turned out to be the keys I needed to create an accessible... Read more
5.5.16 Make Assessment Work for All Students: Multiple Measures Matter – A New Report from NWEA and Gallup NWEA is pleased to present the third installment in our ongoing investigation into public perceptions of K12 assessment, Make Assessment Work for All Students: Multiple Measures Matter. The study... Read more
4.19.16 Do you know what your child is learning in school? – 3 Questions for the Car How can we take what happens naturally at home and connect it explicitly to what is happening in classrooms where formative assessment is well integrated? Or as Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn... Read more