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Sheffield-Sheffield Lake – Putting Formative Assessment to Work in the...
In this ongoing blog series, we’ve followed the implementation of our formative assessment-based teacher professional development solution, Keeping Learning on Track™ (KLT™), in the Sheffield-Sheffield...
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Teacher Professional Development: Is it Time to Restructure the School Day?
In a recent blog post – Is Teacher Professional Development Trending Up – I wrote about how the 2011 MetLife Teacher Survey indicated that there seems to be a growing trend toward teacher collaboration...
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Teacher Professional Development: Making Time for Evidence-Based Education
In Robert Slavin’s Education Week blog – Overcoming Four Barriers to Evidence-Based Education – there were two sentences that rang so true for me and seem to relate to Popham’s article a few weeks ago....
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The Importance of Teacher Collaboration in School and Student Performance
If you’re a teacher and have been at it for some time I’m sure you appreciate the opportunity to chat with peers about their classroom dynamic; what’s working for them and perhaps more importantly,...
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Webinar Feedback: Incorporating Common Core Shifts in ELA and Math
Our first webinar in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) series – What Teachers and Leaders Need to Know about the Common Core MAP Assessment – took place on March 11th and you can read participant...
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Redefining Professional Development as Teacher-Led Professional Learning
The language we use to define and describe certain things in education is sometimes flawed. We’ve discussed this before around the term formative assessment, which often gets unfairly lumped into the...
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New Literacy for Teachers, Student Data, and Educator Evaluation
NWEA authors have been featured recently on leading educational blogs and we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss their insights! Below we provide a brief highlight of the topics they touch on and link...
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Is Your Teacher Professional Development Program Setup for Success?
There are myriad choices when district administrators sit down to evaluate teacher professional development programs. Like anything involving choice, there are good decisions and bad decisions. When...
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Making Sense of Teacher Data to Improve Teacher Professional Development
I came across Liana Heitin’s blog at Ed Week titled Teachers’ Data Use Becoming PD Emphasis and it hit home on a number of levels. As the assessment coordinator in our district I led data coaches, and...
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Formative Assessment and the need for Teacher Professional Development
Is that time now? Could it really be here? I’m talking about that moment when educators really see that formative assessment is not another test; that it’s much more than ‘right’ or ‘wrong’; that it’s...
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Teacher Development: Small Changes Can Mean Big Things
Teachers today have it tough! We’ve blogged repeatedly on their lack of formal time for teacher professional development despite the fact that changes such as the Common Core State Standards are...
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The Importance of Collaboration in Teacher Professional Development
In 2004, Deborah Butler and some of her research colleagues followed 10 teachers across a two-year professional development program. The teachers were introduced to an instructional program through a...
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Teacher Professional Development for Common Core Success: 5 Principles for...
One of the fundamentals of the Common Core is getting students to apply higher-order thinking and backing up this thinking with supporting evidence. As school districts start the process of developing...
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Five Key Elements to Successful Embedded Teacher Professional Development
A recent Edutopia article – Teacher Development Research: Keys to Educator Success – explored ways districts and administrators can get the best from teachers and improve student learning. It defined...
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Teacher Professional Development: Getting Teachers Re-Engaged In the Classroom
A recent Gallup poll, highlighted at Education Week, revealed that teacher engagement starts low and gets worse over time. And while teachers may be considered more engaged than some other...
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Creating Successful Teacher Professional Development – Elements to Consider
Alison Anderson recently blogged about her edcamp Portland experience at Getting Smart, and I loved some of the ideas that she touched on regarding teacher professional development. The one hurdle that...
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Improving the Practice of Teaching with Formative Assessment
There was recently a great two-part blog by Marc Tucker at EdWeek that showcased an open letter to Dylan Wiliam on teacher quality, and Dylan’s response. The blog was Dialogue with Dylan Wiliam on...
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Formative Assessment For Learning – Making the Case for Classroom Success
Throughout our blogging efforts around formative assessment, or what is also called assessment for learning, we’ve shared strategies and tactics for successfully implementing the practice at the...
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Setting up Teacher Professional Development for Success
Doctor Kimberly’s Literacy Blog at Learning Unlimited recently had a piece titled 5 Key Steps to Better Professional Learning that dovetails nicely with what we’ve been blogging about with regard to...
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Teacher Professional Development: Bringing Value to Faculty Meetings
Earlier this summer I wrote a blog that touched on the lack of time that teachers have to collaborate on teaching ideas and strategies, and what’s working in their classrooms and what is not....
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