Finding out what students know and acting on it: formative checks, diagnostics, data, and error analysis.
Data only helps if it changes what you do next.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a team gives the same well-designed assessment at the same point and agrees on what proficiency looks like, they can compare results, learn from each other, and respond together.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome of the most powerful team PD is simply looking closely at student work together, with a protocol that keeps it focused and non-defensive.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen a student needs extra support, how do you know if it's working? Progress monitoring, measuring a specific skill briefly and frequently and charting the trend, tells you whether an intervention is helping or needs to change, before months are lost.
Open workshop →WorkshopTeaching without knowing what students already know, and don't, means teaching some things they've mastered and skipping what they're missing.
Open workshop →WorkshopSome of the most valuable evidence of learning is not on a test, it is what you see and hear as students work, talk, and play.
Open workshop →WorkshopA wrong answer is not just wrong, it is a window into a student's thinking.
Open workshop →WorkshopA snapshot of where a student is tells you less than how far they have come.
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