Archive for Theme: Breakout B


Student-Led Classroom Formative Assessment

Create a dynamic classroom environment where students track their own progress to learning targets through a student grouping process called Academic Teaming. Increase engagement, student ownership, and academic achievement through student-led formative...

Assessing and Coaching Leadership Teams to High Performance

A district or school improvement plan depends on a high performing leadership team to get results. Studies have shown a common denominator of higher vs. lower performing districts and schools is how well the leadership team performs as a team. This is the critical...

Assessment for the Journey to Self-Regulated Learning

Based on Dylan Wiliam’s Five Key Strategies for effective formative assessment; learn effective ways to use partner and group feedback, where students work as a group, not just co-exist in a group. See how to use discussions and activities as strategies to...

Best Practices in Grading

This session will provide guidelines by which teachers of all subjects can make grades accurate, effective, meaningful and supportive of...

Designing Authentic Performance Tasks

Jay will present ideas from his latest book, Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects (ASCD, 2020). This session will explore a variety of practical and proven tools for the development of performance tasks to engage students in meaningful learning and...