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Assessment Pathways to Proficiency Implementing Evidence-Based Grading

By Troy Gobble, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel, and Eric Twadell NEW Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students. This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Readers will follow a hypothetical curriculum team’s journey through each phase of this process. 176 pages

• Recognize the challenges that can impede efforts to change grading practices.

• Consider research that can help shape individualized, valuable professional learning experiences.

• Identify the concepts and perspectives to which curriculum team members must commit, to successfully adopt evidence-based grading practices.

Also Available by Troy Gobble, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel, and Eric Twadell

76BCA–BKF682 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-942496-13-7

Proficiency-Based Assessment 76BCA–BKF631 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-54-2

Softening the Edges Assessment Practices That Honor K–12 Teachers and Learners

By Katie White Foreword by Cassandra Erkens

NEW Discover the difference between soft edges and hard edges regarding alignment between students’ and teachers’ needs and the assessment practices that are meant to meet them. This book asserts that assessment must have soft edges, smoothly guiding students through their learning and engaging them so their confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant. 240 pages

• Understand the language of assessment and softened assessment edges.

• Spot the indicators of hard and soft edges in classroom practices.

• Learn how to educate for the whole student to meet students’ cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and ethical development needs.

• Examine the importance of a learning continuum.

76BCA–BKF781 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-943874-07-1

Designing Effective Assessments

By James H. Stronge, Leslie W. Grant, and Xianxuan Xu NEW Assessment is a critical component of effective teaching and learning. Designed specifically for K–12 educators, this title presents ten key assessment design tools and clearly outlines how to incorporate each tool into daily classroom practices. With quality assessment processes in place, teachers at all grade levels can accurately measure student mastery and shape instruction to increase achievement. 160 pages

• Study research that supports each of the ten key assessment design tools described in this book.

• Explore the benefits of involving students in the assessment process.

• Learn how to align grading policies and practices to ensure they are valid and reliable.

• Examine how standards-based grading and reporting communicate student learning better than traditional assessment practices.

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Essential Assessment Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom

By Cassandra Erkens, Tom Schimmer, and Nicole Dimich Vagle NEW Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you’ll explore six essential tenets of assessment—assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment—that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students’ academic success and self-fulfillment. 176 pages

Grading From the Inside Out Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset

By Tom Schimmer Bestseller The time for grading reform is now. While the transition to standardsbased practices may be challenging, it is essential for effective instruction and assessment. Discover the steps your team can take to transform grading and reporting schoolwide. 216 pages 76BCA–BKF646 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-85-6

• Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students’ learning.

• Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets.

• Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students’ and teachers’ hope, efficacy, and achievement..

76BCA–BKF752 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-943874-49-1

Collaborative Common Assessments Teamwork. Instruction. Results.

By Cassandra Erkens Foreword by Richard DuFour

Reignite the passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning. Strengthen instruction with collaborative common assessments that collect vital information.

Explore the practical steps teams must take to establish assessment systems, and discover how to continually improve results.

192 pages 76BCA–BKF605 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-00-9

Design in Five

FAST Grading

Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

A Guide to Implementing Best Practices

By Nicole Dimich Vagle Foreword by Douglas Reeves

Discover how to work with your school team to create innovative, effective, engaging assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore various types of assessment, learn the traits of quality assessment, and evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria. 176 pages 76BCA–BKF604 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-936764-95-2

By Douglas Reeves Embrace effective grading procedures that have the power to reduce failure rates and encourage learning. Discover practical strategies teachers and administrators can use to ensure their grading practices center on four essential criteria: fairness, accuracy, specificity, and timeliness. 168 pages 76BCA–BKF647 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-87-0

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Assessment Creating a Culture of Feedback

Mindful Assessment The 6 Essential Fluencies of Innovative Learning

By William M. Ferriter and Paul J. Cancellieri Prioritize feedback over grading. Make students partners in their learning when you ask yourself important questions: Where am I going? How am I doing? And finally, What steps should I take next?

80 pages; Grades 3–12 76BCA–BKF731 $17.95 USD | $22.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-943874-14-9

By Lee Watanabe Crockett and Andrew Churches It is time to rethink the relationship between teaching and learning and assess the crucial skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. Educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate. 176 pages 76BCA–BKF717 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-942496-88-5

Ahead of the Curve

Simplifying Common Assessment

The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning

A Guide For Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Edited by Douglas Reeves

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

By Larry Ainsworth, Lisa Almeida, Anne Davies, Richard DuFour, Linda Gregg, Thomas R. Guskey, Robert J. Marzano, Ken O’Connor, Douglas Reeves, Rick Stiggins, Stephen White, and Dylan Wiliam

Discover how to develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.

Bestseller Leaders in education contribute their perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation, sending out a call for redirecting assessment to improve student achievement and inform instruction. 280 pages; hardcover 76BCA–BKF232 $37.95 USD | $47.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-934009-06-2

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

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Bringing Homework Into Focus Tools and Tips to Enhance Practices, Design, and Feedback

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide. 144 pages 76BCA–BKF369 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-935249-74-0

By Eileen Depka In many classrooms, teachers assign homework out of habit. Learn to design quality homework instead. Prepare students and measure their comprehension by assigning purposeful work, setting clear expectations, and providing feedback as the unit of study unfolds. 136 pages 76BCA–BKF616 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-23-8

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Expert Spotlight Kim Bailey & Chris Jakicic What inspired you to develop books and professional development focused on common formative assessment?

As practitioners involved in supporting the implementation of professional learning communities, we’ve encountered many teams struggling with the process of designing and using common assessments.

In fact, many teachers we’ve met believed that they didn’t have the skills to write quality assessments. To address this challenge, we wanted to develop a process that real teachers in real schools could accomplish with limited common planning time. Our goal has always been to make the process practical and help teams see that they are, in fact, very capable of developing quality assessments.

What specific challenges do you hope to help educators overcome?

Many teams use assessment data to identify students who didn’t learn, but don’t always effectively use the data to know what to do next for students. We want to help teams move beyond the

step of identifying students who need help, to actually using the information to diagnostically determine the specific support that they need.

In addition, one of the hallmarks of the PLC process is that highperforming teams engage in collective inquiry about their

Our goal has always been to make the process practical and help teams see that they are, in fact, very capable of developing quality assessments.”

own practices. Our experience has been that sometimes teams fear that comparing assessment results will result in uncomfortable discussions about teacher quality.

Instead, we recommend protocols for data discussions that take away the focus from comparing teachers to each other and instead focus on which strategies work best for different students.

What will educators find most valuable in your resources and professional development?

We empower teams with doable and understandable processes, including the “why” behind the work. For example, we include information to assist teams’ understanding of the value behind unwrapping standards into learning targets, and provide a practical protocol to do this work. Our new book also includes an implementation road map that can be used by teams, schools, and districts to determine their current reality and then strategically plan their next steps.

What do you feel is the next step in your work to support teachers?

We need to help teams keep their focus on how to effectively use formative assessments in their work. Too often, the focus has been on high-stakes tests that provide a “one shot” picture of student learning. Instead, they need to keep focusing on the essential learning targets that all students must know.

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Assessment Redefining Fair

On Your Mark

How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Excellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting

By Damian Cooper

By Thomas R. Guskey

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately informed of student progress.

Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover research-based strategies to implement effective grading and reporting practices. 144 pages

Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, the author explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners. 200 pages 76BCA–BKF412 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-935542-14-8

Using Digital Games as Assessment and Instruction Tools

By Ryan L. Schaaf Combine hard work and deep fun in classrooms with digital game–based learning. Discover how to incorporate digital tools and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable classroom activities that address content standards and revitalize learning for both teachers and students. 80 pages 76BCA–BKF666 $17.95 USD | $22.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-935542-53-7

Counting What Counts

Embedded Formative Assessment

By Dylan Wiliam Bestseller Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students. 200 pages 76BCA–BKF418 $35.95 USD | $45.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-934009-30-7

Reframing Education Outcomes

The School Leader’s Guide to Grading

Edited by Yong Zhao

By Ken O’Connor

By Ross C. Anderson, Kendra Coates, Brian Gearin, Yue Shen, Sarah Soltz, Michael Thier, and Daisy Zhang-Negrerie

Ensure your school’s grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the “seven essential Ps” can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement.

Learn how to avoid inaccurate grades and what causes them. 112 pages; grades K–8

Essential traits such as mindset, motivation, social skills, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit need to be acknowledged and cultivated in the classroom. Educators must shift the evaluation paradigm to focus on a multiplicity of skills necessary for success in the 21st century. 200 pages 76BCA–BKF632 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-936763-58-0

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RES The Assessment Toolkit Transform assessment into a powerful tool that inspires student learning.

Designed by leading assessment experts, this curated toolkit includes a complete collection of strategies and practices for involving students in the assessment process, integrating assessments into instruction, and ensuring reporting practices accurately measure student achievement.

This curated toolkit includes twenty books and three DVDs for whole-school professional development.

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Backward Design Featuring Jay McTighe The Understanding by Design framework reflects the meeting of the ideas of teaching and assessing for understanding with the process for curriculum design.

In this keynote, Jay uses that framework as the foundation to help participants distinguish three learning goals and their implications. 60-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 76BCA–DVF055 $195.00 USD | $244.00 CAD UPC 811796010520

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Making Homework Matter Featuring Cassandra Erkens By asking participants to evaluate homework through the eyes of different stakeholders, Cassandra illustrates the value of allowing students to make mistakes, the impact of descriptive feedback from teacher to student, and the critical effect of student involvement in setting and achieving learning targets. 64-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 76BCA–DVF039 $195.00 USD | $244.00 CAD UPC 811796010360

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Engaging the Nintendo™ Generation Real Student Assessment Featuring Sharon V. Kramer Computers and video games have changed the way students absorb information.

Dr. Kramer draws on recent research and extensive firsthand experience to illustrate a classroom model where students motivate, guide, and manage their own learning.

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Transformational Learning

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The Last Frontier

Content, Then Process

Tackling the Grading Dilemma

Teaching Learning Communities in the Service of Formative Assessment

Featuring Ken O’Connor Ken outlines eight fundamental grading guidelines that will move traditional grades to standards-based. He also details how to support your staff as they change their attitudes and approaches toward grading—particularly in middle and high schools. 99-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 76BCA–DVF061 $195.00 USD | $244.00 CAD UPC 811796010582

Featuring Dylan Wiliam In this striking keynote, Dr. Wiliam encourages the building of teacher learning communities (TLCs). He provides practical techniques to embed formative assessment in regular classroom practice and illustrates how TLCs can be established and sustained within schools and districts to support teachers. 86-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 76BCA–DVF058 $195.00 USD | $244.00 CAD UPC 811796010544

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Assessment Leading the Way to Assessment for Learning

Transforming Schools and Systems Using Assessment

A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide

By Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Beth Parrott Reynolds

By Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Beth Parrott Reynolds

Foreword by Jay McTighe

Foreword by Paul LeMahieu

Second Edition Designed to support school and system instruction leaders and full of examples, this detailed guide offers a practical approach to the challenges of meeting traditional evaluation standards while assessing learning. Understand how to involve learners—both students and adults—in assessment for learning.

184 pages

Second Edition Research shows that the single most powerful solution to improving education today is quality assessment for learning. Using stories and samples, the authors illustrate the assessment processes that enable leaders to successfully work toward school transformation and identify trouble before it happens. 176 pages

76BCA–BKF524 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-935543-94-7

Making Classroom Assessment Work

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Self-Assessment and Goal Setting

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

By Anne Davies Third Edition This book combines powerful ideas with practical strategies to implement quality classroom assessment.

Use assessment for learning to guide instruction, provide feedback, collect evidence of learning, present evidence of success, and produce accurate standardsbased report cards. 136 pages 76BCA–BKF520 $29.95 USD | $37.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-935543-88-6

Foreword by Heidi Andrade

Second Edition Self-assessment and goal setting are key processes for helping students learn how to self-monitor and self-regulate their way to success. This book provides ways to motivate students to work harder while engaging in assessment for learning strategies that result in higher achievement. 80 pages 76BCA–BKF514 $19.95 USD | $25.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-935543-76-3

Conferencing and Reporting

Setting and Using Criteria

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

Foreword by Rick Stiggins

Foreword by Sandra Herbst

Second Edition Learn practical ways to involve students in the assessment process.

The authors share the 10 best ways to have students reflect on their learning, collect evidence of learning, share that evidence with others, and ask for specific feedback to support further learning. 80 pages

Second Edition Increase engagement, learning, and achievement by involving students in the process of classroom assessment. This book includes strategies, classroom models, and 10 ways to give students descriptive, specific feedback—all designed to improve the quality of their work while keeping them engaged and focused. 80 pages

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RES Quality Assessment in High Schools Accounts From Teachers Edited by Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Kathy Busick Discover how to increase the efficacy of your assessment practices and motivate students to take ownership of their learning. Educators from a variety of disciplines share techniques and firsthand strategies for creating systems of assessment that target student needs.

200 pages 76BCA–BKF526 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-935543-97-8

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Focused Assessment Enriching the Instructional Cycle

By Gwen Doty Learn how to create relevant and appropriate assessments throughout the learning cycle so your students will have ample opportunity to show competence in ways that make sense to them and are in accordance with their readiness levels.

192 pages 76BCA–BKF361 $34.95 USD | $44.00 CAD ISBN 978-1-935249-66-5

A Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting in High Schools

By Sandra Herbst and Anne Davies Equip yourself with research-based strategies to execute effective classroom assessment. This book is organized around four quadrants: determining the learning destination, researching the expected quality level, planning to collect reliable evidence of learning, and collecting baseline evidence of learning.

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Record Book Plus

By Lee Canter Bestseller Parents need to be involved in their children’s education every step of the way. Record Book Plus includes openended and traditional grading sheets, behavior-management documentation sheets, and parent communication resources with helpful tips and guidelines. 168 pages; spiral-bound; grades K–8 76BCA–BKF190 $17.95 USD | $22.50 CAD ISBN 978-1-932127-59-1

The Teacher as Assessment Leader

The Principal as Assessment Leader

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

By Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Michelle Goodwin, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Chris Jakicic, Sharon V. Kramer, Jeffry Overlie, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Dimich Vagle, and Adam Young

By Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Charles Hinman, Susan B. Huff, Chris Jakicic, Dennis King, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Dimich Vagle, and Mark Weichel

Bestseller Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive change. Packed with practical strategies for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn best practices into usable solutions.

280 pages

Filled with firsthand experiences from expert practitioners, this book delivers the motivation needed to ignite a shift toward formative assessment and overall school improvement. Topics include building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more.

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Assessment Common Formative Assessments in a PLC at WorkTM

Common Formative Assessment

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A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

Presenters: Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

Gain a deeper understanding of PLCs, learn the importance of common formative assessments, and develop techniques for designing and implementing effective common formative assessments.

Quizzes, personal reflections, and writing assignments will be used to assess learning and competency.

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

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Bestseller The catalyst for real student improvement begins with a decision to implement common formative assessments. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning.

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Assessment and the Common Core State Standards

Balanced Assessment From Formative to Summative

Online Course

By Kay Burke

Presenter: Kay Burke Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that improve instruction and gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the CCSS with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks.

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Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. Research, rationale, strategies, and examples help teachers develop their own repertoire of assessments to monitor, grade, and gauge a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals.

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Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice

Elements of Grading A Guide to Effective Practice

Online Course

By Douglas Reeves

Presenters: Kristine Nielsen and Douglas Reeves Ensure that your grading systems are accurate, fair, specific, and timely. Learn processes for evaluating your current grading system, discussing contentious grading issues with colleagues, and engaging all stakeholders in the feedback and grading process.

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Second Edition The author provides educators with practical suggestions for making the grading process more fair, accurate, specific, and timely. In addition to examples and case studies, new content addresses how the Common Core State Standards and new technologies impact grading practices.

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All Things Assessment, All in One Place All Things Assessment was formed by Solution Tree in 2015 to help educators improve their current assessment culture and practices. The site is a collaborative resource where educators can discover new assessment practices, as well as ideas for refining their current systems or processes. This resource supports educators committed to ensuring student success through best assessment practices. You’ll find expert insights into today’s most pressing challenges and most innovative ideas.

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Assessment

The Power to Improve Is in Your Hands

Common Formative Assessment Playlist

Common Formative Assessment Jumpstart

Exclusive Videos from Your Favorite Assessment Experts From determining essential outcomes to designing common formative assessments, this playlist includes must-have information on all things assessment while providing supplemental content for this best-selling book.

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started as a Collaborative Team Embedding Collaboration into the Routine Practice of a School – Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour 6:18

From determining essential outcomes to designing CFAs, the Common Formative Assessment video playlist helps guide your team to becoming more assessment literate.

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A Focus on Learning and the Four Essential Questions of a PLC – Rebecca DuFour 4:08

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CHAPTER 2: Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments Common Formative Assessments: A Powerful Tool for Teacher Collaboration – Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour 5:33

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Understanding the Common Formative Assessment Process – Richard DuFour

Establishing and Monitoring Norms – Kenneth C. Williams

What Does Proficiency Look Like?

– Sharon Kramer

Curated instructional videos correspond with chapters in Common Formative Assessment that are designed for group or individual study.

Seven Keys to Effective Teams: Team Products – Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour

Balanced Assessment Systems – Nicole Dimich Vagle 8:29

Unwrapping Standards into Learning Targets – Sharon Kramer 3:12

Effective Leaders Don’t Leave Learning to Chance – Richard DuFour 3:31

Defining Validity and Reliability – Chris Jakicic 2:41

CHAPTER 3: Power Standards - The Essential Outcomes Doing the Right Work: Studying the Standards – Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour 13:44

Getting Insanely Clear About What Students Have to Learn – Mike Mattos 12:55

Communicating Priorities by Establishing a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum – Richard DuFour 3:41

How Do We Decide Our Essential Standards?

– Mike Mattos 6:17

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