Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teams Can Use Assessment Data Effectiv,Used

Review'Common Formative Assessment is one of the best toolkits for collaborative teams of educators committed to the PLC process that we have encountered. It provides the specificity and insights that can only come from authors who have not only led the PLC at Work process in their own school districts, but have also helped schools at all levels, in a variety of different settings, overcome the challenges inherent in deep implementation. Common Formative Assessment presents a compelling case for engaging educators in the kind of work that actually leads to improved student achievement. ' From the foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour'A terrific resource for teachers at every level. The authors unwrap and unravel every aspect of using common formative assessments in the classroom. In a very practical, accessible, and easytounderstand manner, this book unlocks one of the most effective strategies we know of for helping all kids learn.' Thomas W. Many, Author and Consultant'Bailey and Jakicic have skillfully addressed the challenge of creating quality common formative assessments. This practical toolkit filled with examples and clear explanations is what every team needs to improve student learning.' Kay Burke, Author and ConsultantProduct DescriptionWith foreword by Richard and Rebecca DuFourTeams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. 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.With Common Formative Assessment, monitor and enhance your students learning. You ll get everything you need to know to create common formative assessments and incorporate them into the practices of your professional learning community. With accessible tools and templates for teams to adjust to their own needs, this is a process that will be easy to facilitate and easy to maintain.Benefits Includes strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments. Provides protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process. Offers tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments. Highlights ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process.Contents:1. Getting Started as a Collaborative Team2. Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments3. Power Standards The Essential Outcomes4. The Unwrapping Process Achieving Collective Clarity on Learning Targets5. Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments6. The Big Picture Pacing Guides and Unit Design7. Now What? Using Data to Make a Difference8. Getting the Most Bang for Your Assessment Buck Involving Students9. Sustaining the WorkAppendix Tools for TeamsAbout the AuthorKim Bailey is director of staff development and instructional support for the Capistrano Unified School District in southern California. Her leadership has been instrumental in uniting and guiding educators throughout the district s fiftysix schools in their journey to becoming professional learning communities (PLCs). In addition to her role at Capistrano, Kim works with schools and districts across the nation, providing guidance and support to move forward with their own development as PLCs. Kim is passionate about empowering teams to do the important work inherent in effective learning communities, including the development of common formative assessments, and the alignment of standards, assessment, interventions, and instruction.Kim s education background spans over thirty years, and her work at Capistrano has won national praise. The National School Boards Association (NSBA) recognized Kim