Knowing Our Students as Readers

In order to engage students in goal setting, progress monitor those goals, and differentiate instruction, we need to know each individual student. With a class full of students and so much to do, how do we learn about students...

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Progress Monitoring Students’ Goals

Last time, we took first steps toward setting individual academic goals with students.  Now that those goals are set and action plans created, how do you keep track of all the learning?  How can you make decisions about where...

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Individual Academic Goals & Mid-Year Data

Since our October workshop on Student-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting, we’ve shared strategies for noticing and encouraging students’ naturally occurring, in-the-moment goals and for modeling goal setting and the student-centered assessment cycle explicitly through class goals. Now, it’s time...

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Progress Monitoring Tools to Make Learning Visible

Check out Kateri's guest blog post for Corwin at http://corwin-connect.com/2018/10/progress-monitoring-tools-to-make-learning-visible/. She explains four critical teaching practices that are accomplished when learning is visible. She details four key steps for effective documentation that makes learning visible, and therefore, actionable in a sustained...

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