
Building a Better Assessment Future 2023
August 2 - 3, 2023Join us for the third annual Building a Better Assessment Future where we will dare to dream about an assessment system that supports all learners…
The 2020-21 ALN sessions will explore implications for teaching and assessing in virtual environments. As educators and students embrace the responsibility to impact learning in new distance, virtual, and hybrid environments necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we will amplify and enhance what we know about good assessment practice and its ability to support learning.
When students and their teachers return to learning for the 2020-21 school year, they confront learning interruptions from COVID 19. Prioritizing grade-level standards and focusing instructionally embedded assessments and formative assessment practices on current grade-level standards promises to accelerate student learning. This strategy can help schools avoid the loss of valuable time identifying what wasn’t taught last year, and it provides the most equitable option available for Michigan’s students.
Four principles guide the assessment of prioritized grade-level standards:
This ALN session will introduce and expand upon the the guidance offered in the free Asynchronous Professional Learning Map titled, Prioritizing and Assessing Standards to Accelerate Student Learning. The Learning Map was prepared by the Michigan Assessment Consortium and offered in partnership with MAISA’s General Education Leadership Network (GELN) Continuity of Learning Task Force. It is one of a library of Learning Maps available on GELN’s interactive website to support local professional learning plans and provide high-quality resources to all teachers across Michigan in 2020-21
Event ResourcesPrioritizing and Assessing Standards to Accelerate Student Learning (to access specific chapters, open at https://vimeo.com/472498975/7a8a7b0836)
Join us for the third annual Building a Better Assessment Future where we will dare to dream about an assessment system that supports all learners…
NOTE: COHORT II begins September 2023! NEW applicants can apply here. Questions? Contact Ellen Vorenkamp at evorenkamp@michiganassessmentconsortium.org. Learn to facilitate classroom-level, assessment-literate practice to improve…
The 2023 Assessment Learning Institute (ALI) takes place over a series of virtual engagements that kicks off September 23 or 30 with an in-person, full-day…
NOTE: COHORT III begins September 2023 with an orientation for site coordinators! NEW applicants can apply here. Questions? Contact Ellen Vorenkamp at evorenkamp@michiganassessmentconsortium.org. Districts that…