Formative Assessment & Data

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Finding out what students know and acting on it: formative checks, diagnostics, data, and error analysis.

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Data-Driven Instruction

15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Data only helps if it changes what you do next.

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Common Formative Assessments

15 / 45 min or half-day · Coaches

When 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.

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Analyzing Student Work

15 / 45 min or half-day · Coaches

Some of the most powerful team PD is simply looking closely at student work together, with a protocol that keeps it focused and non-defensive.

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Progress Monitoring

15 / 45 min or half-day · Coaches

When 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.

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Diagnostic & Pre-Assessment

15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Teaching without knowing what students already know, and don't, means teaching some things they've mastered and skipping what they're missing.

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Observational Assessment

15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Some 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.

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Error Analysis

15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

A wrong answer is not just wrong, it is a window into a student's thinking.

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Measuring Growth

15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

A snapshot of where a student is tells you less than how far they have come.

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