A Discipline Perspective About Assessment Practice to Promote Learning in 20-21
The recorded interview and companion Summary Handout features Kathy Berry, immediate past president of MCTM. Her discipline perspective about Mathematics instruction and assessment applies to all content areas.
A District Persepctive on the Value of Prioritizing Standards to Promote Learning 2020-21
The recorded interview and Summary Handout features Donna Jakubik, prinicipal Maples Elementary School. This principal explains why and how her staff engaged in prioritizing standards to help focus and align assessment practice as they prepared for Fall 2020.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Thinking About Literacy, Learning Progressions and Instruction
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Thinking About Literacy, Learning Progressions and Instruction
ALN-Presentation: Four Assessment Capabilities
In this video, ALN presenters Jill Willis, Chris De Luca, Bronwen Cowie, and Christine Harrison describe their research across four countries and what they learned about the Four Assessment Capabilities needed by new and experienced teachers. January 18, 2022 Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/3m3p61M
ALN-Presentation: How does the formative assessment process support ambitious teaching and vice versa?
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
ALN-Presentation: Leveraging the Power of Formative Feedback
In this video, a team of researchers and practitioners from Corunna (MI) Public Schools explore the use of self- and peer assessment to promote meaningful student engagement. April 8, 2022. Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/3NRpIUK
ALN-Presentation: Moving Together Toward Assessment Systems that Support Learning
In this video, ALN presenters Terri Portice and Ellen Vorenkamp help us review our ALN learning and plan to put it to work for students and staff. They explore how schools can achieve balanced assessment systems in every classroom and highlight how such systems help support the continuous improvement process. Additional resources for this session may be found at https://www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org/event/moving-together-toward-assessment-systems-that-support-learning/
ALN-Session Chat: Leveraging the Power of Formative Assessment
In this 30-minute video, MAC/FAME researchers John Lane, Tara Kintz, and Ellen Vorenkamp discuss core ideas from their April 8, 2022 Assessment Learning Session on Leveraging the Power of Formative Assessment. They are joined by Corunna Public School teachers Kristy Walters, Kelly Rowe, and Robyn Lentz, who describe how they are putting these principles to work in their classrooms. 4.8.22
ALN Presentation: Choreographing Connections with SEL 11-9-2021
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
ALN Presentation: How does the formative assessment process support ambitious teaching, and vice versa?
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
ALN Presentation: Jay McTighe 10-7-2021
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
ALN Presentation: Planning, Practice, and Reflection
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