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Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work™, this book demonstrates how educators can 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. Design tasks and assessments that feature the greater rigor and complexity the new standards require. Use assessment data to make adjustments that increase student learning. Explore possible team structures and practices that foster successful use of common assessments.
Benefits
• Learn the different purposes that wide-angle questions and close-up questions serve in reaching assessment goals.
• Understand different types of assessments and what the data gained from each of them can reveal about student learning.
• Frame assessment and feedback methods to pursue the end goal of learning for all.
• Use templates and protocols to unwrap essential learning standards, create performance tasks, plan appropriate assessments, and analyze data.
• Discover a road map that can help guide your work with common assessments.
Contents
1 Framing the Power of Assessment in Professional Learning Communities
2 Starting With the End in Mind
3 Considering Rigor and Complexity
4 Intentionally Planning of Instruction and Assessment
5 Writing Questions That Work
6 Using Data to Support Student Learning
7 Focusing on Feedback and Grappling With Grading
8 Using Common Formative Assessments in Less Traditional Settings
Appendix Road Map for Implementing Common Assessments
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Ensure every educator is engaged in the right work with a collective focus on improved student learning. Aligned to the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work® model, this resource includes instructional coaching tools, processes, protocols, templates, tips, and strategies designed to support the multidimensional work of instructional coaches and PLC training. Each chapter includes action steps and reflective coaching activities, as well as suggestions for navigating some of the most common issues instructional coaches face.
Use this book to understand the unique requirements of instructional coaches in building a school that answers the four critical questions of a PLC at Work:
Learn how to provide PLC training and professional development for collaborative teacher teams.Study three major variables that will affect instructional coaching (capacity, culture, and context) and four major actions that will act as guiding principles.Explore issues that can arise in PLC schools, as well as teacher coaching strategies to help resolve these issues.Deepen your understanding of instructional coaching in a PLC with helpful online reproducibles and teacher coaching tools.Acquire capacity-building strategies aligned to the four PLC questions.Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: How to Get Started as an Instructional CoachChapter 2: What Do We Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do?Chapter 3: How Will We Know if They Have Learned It?Chapter 4: How Will We Respond When Some Students Do Not Learn?Chapter 5: How Will We Extend the Learning of Students Who Are Already Proficient?Epilogue: Maintaining the Momentum and Sustaining the ProcessReferences and ResourcesIndex
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Designed exclusively for teacher teams, this plan book is a one-stop shop for practical PLC information and resources. Inside its pages, you’ll find everything your team needs to thrive from the first day of school to the last. Access forty weekly planning pages, in-depth examples, succinct summaries of PLC concepts, and many more tools that will support your daily collaborative work of championing learning for all.
Use this resource to maintain a healthy collaborative team and stay on top of instruction:
Review the foundational components of the professional learning communities (PLC) process, such as establishing norms, setting SMART goals, and developing common assessments.Improve team planning and organization.Utilize many reproducible forms and tools to improve collaboration and to collect and organize information.Recognize the positive cultural shifts that occur for teams that follow the PLC process.Explore additional resources to help deepen your knowledge of the work of collaborative teams.Contents:Part 1: PLC Fundamentals and ProtocolsPart 2: Weekly PlannersPart 3: Epilogue and References
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Learn, do, and lead with the guidance of Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at WorkⓇ by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic. With this practical resource, you''ll first discover how to gather evidence from staff about PLC practices, processes, and products. Then you''ll explore how to use that evidence to gauge the effectiveness of your professional learning community (PLC) and make informed and targeted decisions about your collective next steps for a school culture of continuous improvement.
This book will teach you how to implement professional learning communities more effectively:
Discover how to gather formative evidence from a number of sources to implement collaborative structures and a schoolwide change process.Understand how to use the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting as a formative feedback loop to improve instructional practices.Gain clarity on what makes a successful professional learning community and where to focus your school''s energy and effort moving forward.Access tools and templates designed to support and strengthen team practices in order to shape school culture and ensure learning for all students.Explore how teams effectively answer the four critical questions of a PLC.Contents:AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsForewordIntroduction
Part 1Chapter 1: A Culture of Learning for AllChapter 2: The School''s Collaborative StructuresChapter 3: Quality Instructional PracticeChapter 4: Schoolwide Systems of Support
Part 2Chapter 5: A Focus on Getting Clear About What Students Should Know and DoChapter 6: A Focus on How Teams Gather Information About Student LearningChapter 7: A Focus on Supporting Students Who Need Additional Time and SupportChapter 8: A Focus on Responding When Students Have Already Learned
EpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex
A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work(R) Second Edition
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In the second edition of this pivotal work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic, you will discover updated and improved resources to use formative data to support higher levels of student learning. Data-driven techniques and new tools will guide you in improving collaboration and student engagement throughout the assessment process. Teams can use the ideas, templates, and protocols in this practitioner-friendly resource.
K–12 educators will:Identify successful assessment tools for implementationUnderstand the role of assessments in advancing student learningReflect on assessment processes and the standards driving instructionAccess a wide variety of assessment designs and strategies for guiding collaborationUtilize data-driven jump-start resources and templates that suit their teams’ needsContents:Foreword by Robert EakerIntroductionChapter 1: Getting Started as a Collaborative TeamChapter 2: Setting the Stage for Common Formative AssessmentsChapter 3: Essential Standards—Determining Priorities for Student LearningChapter 4: Achieving Collective Clarity With the Unwrapping ProcessChapter 5: Designing Quality Common Formative AssessmentsChapter 6: Going Deeper—Advanced Processes for Designing AssessmentsChapter 7: Now What? Using Data to Make a DifferenceChapter 8: Building Student Self-Efficacy in LearningChapter 9: Strengthening and Sustaining the WorkAppendix: Tools for TeamsReferences and ResourcesIndex