Assessment Overload Prevents School Districts From Gathering Useful Learning Data

Beginning Teachers Can Join Assessment for Learning: Revisiting Strategies to Improve Student Learning

The Labour Education and Leadership Committee is inviting Beginning Teachers (teachers in their first 5 years) to: Assessment for Learning: Revisiting strategies to improve student learning. There are many teaching strategies that help to create equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for all students. Participants will learn efficient ways to gather evidence of student learning (exit […] The post Beginning Teachers Can Join Assessment for…

Assessment Overload Prevents School Districts From Gathering Useful Learning Data

Educators are buried under a mountain of tests. While state-mandated exams often take the blame, the real culprit is the growing pile of district-mandated assessments layered on top of school-administered exams. School system leaders hear the same concern again and again: Teachers spend too much time administering assessments that, while often adopted with best intentions, don’t provide enough value. Through our work with school districts such a…