Seven Strategies for Supporting Student Learning in a Remote Environment
In this article, McTighe and Martin-Kniep identify seven strategies to support the unprecedented adaptations we have had to make as a result of COVID-19 and switch to remote learning. They point out meaningful engagement through tasks that develop valuable skills, and produce habits of mind for school and life.
Shirley Clark’s Website for Formative Assessment
Shirley Clark’s website is designed to support teachers in using formative assessment practices. This page highlights useful online resources.
Standards Based Learning and Grading
This source is a suggested resource to supplement the November 22nd, 2019 ALN event. It is a Facebook group co-moderated by Ken O'Connor.
Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Developed jointly by AERA, APA and NCME, these standards represent the gold standard in guidance on testing.
Starting the Conversation About Grading
This resource describes how a school can re-look at its grading purposes.
Start with purpose when choosing assessments
This Learning Point describes the basic steps in choosing an assessment for use in schools.
Steps in the Right Direction: A Guide to Using and Reporting Assessment Results
This guide can help local educators use student assessment results, as well as the process of reporting the results, to help build public confidence and support, strengthen the family’s role in schooling, and help students learn the challenging standards being assessed.
Student-Centered Assessment Video Suite
Four videos produced by Heidi Andrade and students and teachers from Brooklyn, NY demonstrate key components of self and peer assessment, reflection, and benefits.
Success Criteria
Two-page guide from the Waterloo Region School District's, Assessment Evaluation and Reporting Handbook
Supporting English Learners’ Oral Language Development
This short online article from WestEd Insights by Margaret Heritage and Aida Walqui provides a framework for oral language production of EL students for purpose of understanding how to guide support for students' work and language development.
Supporting School Community Wellness with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) During and After a Pandemic
Authors: Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine; Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann, Ed.D., EdTogether; Marc Brackett, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine This issue brief, created by The Pennsylvania State University, is one of a series of briefs that addresses the future needs and challenges for research, practice, and policy on social and emotional learning (SEL). It explores the role of SEL in promoting wellness during the compounding traumas of a pandemic. The authors identify Bright Spots—examples of how SEL research and practice are being applied to support wellness during this crisis and that may be used in related crises moving forward, and Ripe Spots—opportunities for SEL to support the anticipated needs of schools toward the promotion of school community wellness.
Supporting Teachers Statewide in the Formative Assessment Process- Margaret Heritage
Assessment Learning Network, 2017-18 – Event 4, Event Page