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The first weeks of school are an exciting time! Yet many students also feel anxious at the start of a new school year,…
Standards-based assessment is the practice of assessing student learning relative to specific learning outcomes. To illustrate what it looks like in…
"He is a C student." "She's bad at math." "These students are failing." Traditional grading systems rank students and turn grades into labels.…
History and Background The Universal Screeners for Number Sense (USNS) released in three phases during the 2020-2021 school year are the result of…
Addressing Number Sense as a Whole Group, Small Group or One-on-One When looking at results of the Universal Screeners for Number Sense, I…
Getting back to “normal” may not happen next fall. Or 2022. Nonetheless, the best chance to make up for the losses of the…
There are a variety of tools that can be used to measure student learning. From standardized tests to exit tickets, the purposes and…
Teachers and school and district leadership have less student learning data than ever before. Many teachers may welcome cancelled state standardized tests that…
Formative assessments impact instruction directly. When teachers use formative instructional practices, they assess students, interpret results, and respond. Tools and strategies for formative…
More students than ever are failing. In a recent meeting with math leaders, we considered the case of high school mathematics grades in…
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