Student Centered Assessment A Classroom Look at Growth

The Role of Assessment in a Community Support Accountability Focus Shared Vision

Stop and Jot What is your vision for your writers? What is your vision for your writers’ identities? Individual identities? Their collective identity as a community?

Turn and Talk Please share one thought with a partner. Then share the “why” behind your thought.

Tools to Promote Instructional Change “What we do has little impact unless we are cognizant of how to do those things in the most effective ways and for legitimate purposes.” - Good to Great Teaching by Mary Howard, 2012

Primary Agent of Assessment Peter Johnston’s new book: RTI in Literacy: Responsive and Comprehensive “Regardless of grade, students’ development looks different – so, too, must literacy instruction.”

Growth Mindset & Skill Progressions Teaching students to measure their work against a progression of skills requires: A vision for the writing work An expectation that all writers are capable of sharing that vision, as partners in the process

Peter Elbow’s Evolution as a Writer Started with a fixed mindset Then… “I couldn’t write when I tried to write everything right. And I could write when I let myself write things wrong.” 8

Teachers of writers need… Learning progressions across units of study Tools that can be used for multiple purposes Processes for looking at writing with colleagues

Teachers of writers need… Exemplars of work at all stages Lesson design with structures for differentiation Flexibility to USE data to adjust instruction

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What Makes a Difference? John Hattie’s Meta-Analysis Learning goals Emphasize meta-cognitive strategies Multiple exposures / opportunities to practice over several days Feedback Formative evaluation 12

Lesson Structure Model/ Demonstrate Active Engagement Direct Instruction Active Engagement All Students - try it Teacher – observes, gives feedback Independent Practice Students – enact Teacher – confers, observes, assess, reflects, adjusts Share Students & Teacher – confer, assess, reflect, adjust

Feedback / Conference Research – What are you working on today? Compliment – I see you tried . . . Decide What to Teach – What is the student doing/ just about to do? Teach – Demonstrate/ Model/ Exemplar Link – Whenever you’re writing . . .

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Turn & Talk What are you thinking about now?

“Audience Participation” time! Please decide one person per table with a laptop or tablet to be your spokesperson on this site: http://todaysmeet.com/maisa If you have questions for the teachers on the panel, please jot and pass to your spokesperson for submission to the site.

Thank you, Panelists! Michelle Kemp, 12th Grade Muskegon Public Schools Megan Perreault, Middle School Special Education and Literacy Orchard View Public Schools Amy Miller, 5th Grade Grand Haven Public Schools Terri Fortmeyer, 3rd Grade North Muskegon Public Schools

LEARNING TARGETS are… the day-to-day learning that we plan for our students posted in the classroom in understandable language assessable

Types of Learning Targets Knowledge Targets Reasoning Targets Skill Targets Product Targets Disposition Targets

Megan’s Student-Facing Rubric Level 1 Level 2 Level 3  Grouped information into sections  Each section contained information that was mostly about the same thing  Organized into a sequence of separate sections  Wrote each section according to an organizational plan  Used subheadings or clear transitions to separate sections  Put sections in an order that emphasizes key points  Used transitions and introductions or topic sentences to highlight main points Adapted from Writing Pathways by Lucy Calkins and TCRWP Colleagues, 2013

Megan’s “Please Notice” Card

Amy Miller’s Continuum Poster

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Assessment in Writing is coming into its own… NWP TCRWP FAME Quality Assessment Practices

Thank you for doing that today, panelists! We WILL grow together… You will grow your practices as you assess for learning. Our students will grow as writers. This is just the beginning. We will all share our findings as a part of this network. Thank you for doing that today, panelists!