Resource Bank

In this video, ALN presenters Ed Roeber and Heather Vaughan-Southard, describe how the arts reinforce the importance of the Whole Child approach to education and provide immediate, important, and authentic connections and illustrations for teaching and assessing in ways that explicitly address the five core competencies of SEL. (Nafeesah Symonette provided content for this presentation but was not able to attend.)  November 9, 2021 Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/3nZSer8

In this video, ALN presenters Margaret Heritage and Caroline Wylie describe how the formative assessment process supports ambitions teaching--and vice versa. March 10, 2022. Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/ALN-AmbitiousTeaching

In this video, ALN presenter Jay McTighe offers activities and presentation material to introduce assessment practices that are useful for promoting deeper learning. October 7, 2021

In this video, ALN presenters Tara Kintz and Margaret Heritage explore the planning, practice, and reflection cycle that promotes effective use of the formative assessment process. March 9, 2023. Additional resources for this session may be found at https://www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org/event/planning-practice-and-reflection

In this webinar, three leaders from the New Paradigm for Education school in Detroit described how they have re-defined "rigor" and explored how deep learning and assessment are being actualized in an urban setting to realize achievement of high expectations with all students. Use the chapter quick-links in the video counter to navigate to specific sections of the day's events. Related resources can be found on the ALN event page at https://www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org/event/reframing-rigor.

This ALN presentation by Susan Brookhart addresses the topic Formative Assessment Strategies that Improve Distance Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities-4-21-2021. The video also includes lengthy practitioner recordings describing real-classroom examples of each strategy discussed by Brookhart.

In this video, ALN Presenter Christina Ponzio, PhD, an assistant professor of literacy studies at Grand Valley State University, explores the disciplinary literacies of English language arts and features examples that engage students in authentic purposes for reading, writing, speaking/listening, and viewing. 12.5.2024

In this 8-minute video, presenters Heather Vaughan-Southard, Tara Kintz, Nafeesah Symonette, and Ellen Vorenkamp summarize key focal points from their April 17, 2024 ALN session that explores how embodied equity within quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment improved outcomes for all students. In the video, they answer three key questions: 1. What are the big ideas relating equity to measuring student learning? 2. How does quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment champion equity? 3. How does culturally responsible instruction and assessment look and feel?

This ThinkPoint describes two methods for educator evaluation.

This article describes how to evaluate the quality and utility of interim benchmark assessments.

Assessment Learning Network, 2017-18 – Event 2, Event Page

Paper by David T. Conley (2014) written for Students at the Center, a project outlining the practices necessary to advance 21st century learners. www.studentsatthecenter.org (SATC)