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Francis (Skip) Fennell, PhD, is emeritus as the L. Stanley Bowlsbey
professor of education and graduate and professional studies at
McDaniel College in Maryland, where he continues to direct the
Brookhill Institute of Mathematics-supported Elementary
Mathematics Specialists & Teacher Leaders Project.
A mathematics educator who has experience as a classroom teacher,
principal, and supervisor, he is a past president of the Association of
Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), the Research Council on
Mathematics Learning (RCML), and the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM).
Dr. Fennell served as a writer of the Principles and Standards for
School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000), the Curriculum Focal Points
(NCTM, 2006), and the Common Core State Standards for
Mathematics (CCSSO, 2010). He also served on the National
Mathematics Advisory Panel (2006-2008). Dr. Fennell has received
numerous honors and awards, including NCTM’s Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning:
A Guide for Leaders
Francis (Skip) Fennell
McDaniel College
March 7, 2017 • 3 PM - EST
www.mathspecialists.org
Poll:
What is your role in education?
Leadership Framework
Fennell, Kobett, & Wray, 2013
Leaders and Adult Learners
1. Finding a way to meet with teachers or administrative
colleagues individually and informally, which allows the
mathematics leader to get to know them and understand
their expectations, challenges, and work style.
2. Thinking about how to demonstrate respect for colleagues,
and be consistently mindful of their time, curriculum
stressors, personal lives, and so on.
3. Adults need to know why something may be relevant for
them. Always build this into planning professional learning
opportunities for teachers and others.
Coaching, Mentoring, Leading
1. Mentoring of targeted (e.g. new, novice,
challenged) teachers.
2. Providing targeted one-on-one and
professional learning assistance.
3. Co-planning professional learning efforts with
grade-based learning communities.
4. Being readily available just to talk about
particular challenges teachers are facing.
Navigating Relationships
1. How might you work differently with a beginning or
novice teacher than one who has spent ten years at
the same grade level in the same school?
2. Your mathematics coaches/specialists/leaders are
seeking your involvement in the establishment of
grade level and building-based learning communities
at their respective schools. How might you respond to
this request?
3. Who should be involved in helping to plan and
implement a district-wide initiative designed to
provide professional learning opportunities which will
focus on formative assessment?
Learning Communities
1. Establishing
2. Supporting
3. Sustaining
4. Who’s involved?
5. How are they involved?
Assessment Literacy
• What is it?
• Why is it important?
• Assessment of student learning is the
responsibility of every school district, every
school, and every teacher.
• Reality – you do this everyday, pretty much all
day long!
Why didn’t I learn about
formative assessment in my
teacher prep program?
First Year Teacher
Assessment Literacy
I actually never knew that my end-of-year
and end-of-marking period benchmark
tests were summative assessments.
Thinking about how I can use both
formative and summative assessments has
been an eye-opening experience for me.
AND, I’m in my 5th year of teaching!
Fourth Grade Teacher
Assessment Literacy
• Formative assessment includes all activities that
provide information to be used as feedback to
modify and impact planning, teaching and
learning.
• Summative assessments are typically used to
assess student learning at the end of an
experience. This could be a unit assessment,
school district assessment, or the more high-
stakes and high-profile end-of-year state
assessments.
What about you?
• Reflect back: did you learn this?
• What about now? How confident are
you with regard to assessment – all
aspects?
• Personal “confession”
• Assessment is integral to instructional
practice (planning and teaching)
• Linking assessment to planning and
instruction is used to inform teaching
and learning
What about you?
• Think about – how does your school or school
district define Formative Assessment?
• Think about – How do YOU use formative
assessment?
We actually know a lot about
formative assessment…
• The term formative assessment has been with
us for 60+ years (e.g., Sueltz et al, 1946;
Weaver, 1955)….
• Regular use of classroom formative
assessment would raise student achievement
by 0.4 to 0.7 of a standard deviation – enough
to raise the U.S. into the top five countries in
the international rankings for mathematics
(Natriello, 1987; Crooks, 1998; Black and
Wiliam, 1998).
But…
Evidence suggests that actual day-to-
day use of formative assessment is not
as prevalent in classrooms as one
might expect (Stiggins, 2013).
This was the beginning…
NCTM News Bulletin, December 2006
The classroom is your canvas…
I just figured I could Google
formative assessment and buy
whatever formative
assessment I wanted/needed.
Middle School Teacher
Assessment Literacy
See: TCM – February 2015
See: TCM – February 2015
See: TCM – February 2015
See: TCM – February 2015
What we have done…
• First, we recognized:
– a need to emphasize and enhance the use of
classroom-based formative assessments – to guide
teaching and learning.
– an overload of publications, published assessments
and services promising the quick formative
assessment fix.
• So, we:
– Distilled seemingly endless suggestions and
strategies to a small pallet of formative assessment
techniques.
Interviews
Show
Me
Observations
Hinge
Questions
Exit Tasks
How is observation assessment? Of
course I observe my students—all day
long every day! I just never considered
the assessment potential of my
observations!
First Grade Teacher
Observations
I actually know more about my students
because I am always watching them work
and also seeing how they interact—with
the mathematics they are learning and
with each other. For me, observation is my
everyday formative assessment lifeline!
Fourth Grade Teacher
Observations
Observations
• What would you expect to observe?
• How would you know it if you saw it?
• What misconceptions might you observe?
• How might you record and provide feedback
of what you observed?
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What about You? Observations
• You observe students all day long. What are
you seeing?
• Think about planning a lesson and then
teaching it (ANY topic). Now picture any child
in your class (1 student) as the lesson is being
taught. What would you expect that child to
be doing? What might you do about it?
What about You? Observations
• You observe students all day long. What are
you seeing?
• Think about planning a lesson and then
teaching it (ANY topic). Now picture any child
in your class (1 student) as the lesson is being
taught. What would you expect that child to
be doing? What might you do about it?
• Why did you pick THAT child?
For some reason I thought that you only
interviewed those students who were
having problems in math class. Now I
regularly interview my algebra students
because I want to assess how they are
transitioning to using equations and
inequalities in a more formal way.
Eighth Grade Teacher
Interviews
Interviews
• Long history of use in mathematics and special
education (Weaver, 1955; Ginsburg, 1997;
Fennell, 1972, 1998 .
• Extends the observation.
• Takes some time – focused; 1-on-1 or small group
• Allows you to dig deeper
• Not deficit-based
• Provides a glimpse of what a child is thinking
Interviews
• What would make you decide to work 1:1 with a
student or small group?
• What questions might you ask? How might the
questions be different?
• What will you anticipate from students? (Consider
understandings AND possible misconceptions.)
• What follow-up questions might you ask?
What about You? Interviews
• Think of a lesson, any lesson, you
have recently taught. What did a
student do (or not) that might have
caused you to have a brief interview
(5 minutes or less) with the student?
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Can you show me how you would order
76, 54, 47, and 89 using the number line?
How do you know 3/4 < 7/8? Show me.
Show me your graph for that equation.
Show Me
Show Me
• A performance-based response to what a teacher
observes.
• Combines elements of the observation and
interview.
• A stop-and-drop activity where a student, small
group of students or perhaps the entire class
might be asked to show how something works, a
problem solved, or a particular representation
used.
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What about You? Show Me
• Are there particular lessons that you think
would provide opportunity for more Show
Me’s than other lessons? Which? Why do you
think so?
• Think through a lesson topic (ANY level).
Think about planning this lesson – what might
you observe? What would you have your
students show you?
Summing Up…
These monitor your teaching…
• Observations – Paying attention, monitoring
• Interviewing – specifics, “I want to know more
about what I just observed.”
• Show Me – This is an explicit performance of
what I would like to see demonstrated.
• ”I seriously think that one of the last things I
got “good” at as a teacher was questioning.”
6th & 7th grade teacher
• “It took me a while to realize that sometimes I
needed to change – while I was actually
teaching – the questions that I had planned to
ask.”
4th grade teacher
• “The better I feel about my planning, the
easier it is to frame questions and then
consider responses to help me plan for the
next day.”
2nd grade teacher
• The hinge question provides a check for
understanding or proficiency at a particular
hinge point in a lesson. The success of the
lesson hinges on responses to such questions
as an indication of whether students
understand enough to move on (Fennell,
Kobett, & Wray, p. 84).
Think of your teachers and their
use of questioning…
What comes to mind?
Can you picture a colleague who is adept at questioning?
Can you think of a colleague who struggles with questioning?
My take…
Students need to talk about the mathematics they are
learning…questioning starts that process
No questions asked…how can this be?
The Hinge – Focus and Issues
• Hinge Point or Hinge?
• Diagnostic focus – expands the interview…
• Multiple choice or not?
– Student response cards
• 2 minute rule…
• Emily has three equally sized apple pies and
wants to divide them into eight equal portions
to give to eight students who want to take
some pie home from a class party.
• Can you draw a picture showing how Emily
might divide the pies into eight equal
portions? Explain how your picture shows
eight equal portions.
Adapted from Illustrative Math, grade 5
• Emily has three equally sized apple pies and
wants to divide them into eight equal portions
to give to eight students who want to take
some pie home from a class party. Which
expression represents this problem?
A. 3 x 8
B. 8 ÷ 3
C. 3 ÷ 8
D. 24 ÷ 3
Adapted from Illustrative Math, grade 5
It’s 9:30 PM, I’m done…
• Google Forms
• Kahoot
• Padlet
• Plickers
• Today’s Meet
• Resources
• Every pupil response
What about You? Hinge Questions
1. How will you use hinge questions as you teach?
2. If you think of the hinge question as a whole class
interview, how will you use the responses?
3. How will you consider student responses to a hinge
question?
4. When you prepare to ask a hinge question, what might
you anticipate?
Date:
Mathematics Standard:
Hinge Question:
Location in the Lesson
Anticipated Student
Responses
Possible Next Steps:
Differentiation Strategy
Beginning Review
Middle Extend
End Student Grouping
An Exit Task
Is a capstone
problem or task that
captures the major
focus of the lesson
for that day or
perhaps the past
several days
(Fennell, Kobett, &
Wray, 2017).
Different than an Exit Ticket…
Original Task
Alane has the following
number cards: 4, 9, and
12.
• Make a set for each
number.
• Which set has the
most? Least?
Revised Task
Alane has the following number cards: 4,
9, and 12.
• Show each number with cubes or a
drawing.
• With cubes or a drawing, make a new
group that is between 9 and 12.
• If Alane added 2 to each group, what
are the new numbers?
• Would adding 2 to each number
change the order on the number
line?
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What about You? Exit Tasks
• Final activity – whole class Show Me Activity
• Time for all students to complete the activity
should be provided (and for you to review
responses)
Summing Up…
These are closure-connected…
• Hinge Questions – How did that lesson go?
What’s next?
• Exit Tasks – Performance. Demands feedback.
A real getting at understanding opportunity.
Interviews
Show
Me
Observations
Hinge
Questions
Exit Tasks
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
Thompson and William, 2007
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
• Using evidence of learning,
Thompson and William, 2007
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
• Using evidence of learning,
• To adapt teaching and learning,
Thompson and William, 2007
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
• Using evidence of learning,
• To adapt teaching and learning,
• To meet immediate learning needs,
Thompson and William, 2007
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
• Using evidence of learning,
• To adapt teaching and learning,
• To meet immediate learning needs,
• Minute-to-minute and day-by-day.
Thompson and William, 2007
Formative assessment is:
• Students and teachers,
• Using evidence of learning,
• To adapt teaching and learning,
• To meet immediate learning needs,
• Minute-to-minute and day-by-day.
Thompson and William, 2007
Love this…
What we know…*
• Everyday use of the Formative 5 works!
• Teachers need time to think about and
seriously connect planning, teaching, and
assessing.
• Support is more than helpful, it’s necessary!
*2-3 years of piloting and data collection
How can we make sure that:
• Teachers plan lessons (very seriously stated);
• Classroom based formative assessment is part of that
plan;
• Hinge questions and exit tasks are prepared as part of
the lesson;
• Responses to the Formative 5 impact the next day’s
planning and instruction?
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Webinar: Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Leaders

  • 1. Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Leaders Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Join the Blended Learning community: www.edweb.net/blended Presented by: Francis (Skip) Fennell L. Stanley Bowlsbey Professor of Education and Graduate and Professional Studies Emeritus, McDaniel College
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  • 5. Francis (Skip) Fennell, PhD, is emeritus as the L. Stanley Bowlsbey professor of education and graduate and professional studies at McDaniel College in Maryland, where he continues to direct the Brookhill Institute of Mathematics-supported Elementary Mathematics Specialists & Teacher Leaders Project. A mathematics educator who has experience as a classroom teacher, principal, and supervisor, he is a past president of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Dr. Fennell served as a writer of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000), the Curriculum Focal Points (NCTM, 2006), and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSO, 2010). He also served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2006-2008). Dr. Fennell has received numerous honors and awards, including NCTM’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • 6. Assessing to Inform Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Leaders Francis (Skip) Fennell McDaniel College March 7, 2017 • 3 PM - EST
  • 8. Poll: What is your role in education?
  • 10. Leaders and Adult Learners 1. Finding a way to meet with teachers or administrative colleagues individually and informally, which allows the mathematics leader to get to know them and understand their expectations, challenges, and work style. 2. Thinking about how to demonstrate respect for colleagues, and be consistently mindful of their time, curriculum stressors, personal lives, and so on. 3. Adults need to know why something may be relevant for them. Always build this into planning professional learning opportunities for teachers and others.
  • 11. Coaching, Mentoring, Leading 1. Mentoring of targeted (e.g. new, novice, challenged) teachers. 2. Providing targeted one-on-one and professional learning assistance. 3. Co-planning professional learning efforts with grade-based learning communities. 4. Being readily available just to talk about particular challenges teachers are facing.
  • 12. Navigating Relationships 1. How might you work differently with a beginning or novice teacher than one who has spent ten years at the same grade level in the same school? 2. Your mathematics coaches/specialists/leaders are seeking your involvement in the establishment of grade level and building-based learning communities at their respective schools. How might you respond to this request? 3. Who should be involved in helping to plan and implement a district-wide initiative designed to provide professional learning opportunities which will focus on formative assessment?
  • 13. Learning Communities 1. Establishing 2. Supporting 3. Sustaining 4. Who’s involved? 5. How are they involved?
  • 14. Assessment Literacy • What is it? • Why is it important? • Assessment of student learning is the responsibility of every school district, every school, and every teacher. • Reality – you do this everyday, pretty much all day long!
  • 15. Why didn’t I learn about formative assessment in my teacher prep program? First Year Teacher Assessment Literacy
  • 16. I actually never knew that my end-of-year and end-of-marking period benchmark tests were summative assessments. Thinking about how I can use both formative and summative assessments has been an eye-opening experience for me. AND, I’m in my 5th year of teaching! Fourth Grade Teacher Assessment Literacy
  • 17. • Formative assessment includes all activities that provide information to be used as feedback to modify and impact planning, teaching and learning. • Summative assessments are typically used to assess student learning at the end of an experience. This could be a unit assessment, school district assessment, or the more high- stakes and high-profile end-of-year state assessments.
  • 18. What about you? • Reflect back: did you learn this? • What about now? How confident are you with regard to assessment – all aspects? • Personal “confession”
  • 19. • Assessment is integral to instructional practice (planning and teaching) • Linking assessment to planning and instruction is used to inform teaching and learning
  • 20. What about you? • Think about – how does your school or school district define Formative Assessment? • Think about – How do YOU use formative assessment?
  • 21. We actually know a lot about formative assessment…
  • 22. • The term formative assessment has been with us for 60+ years (e.g., Sueltz et al, 1946; Weaver, 1955)…. • Regular use of classroom formative assessment would raise student achievement by 0.4 to 0.7 of a standard deviation – enough to raise the U.S. into the top five countries in the international rankings for mathematics (Natriello, 1987; Crooks, 1998; Black and Wiliam, 1998).
  • 23. But… Evidence suggests that actual day-to- day use of formative assessment is not as prevalent in classrooms as one might expect (Stiggins, 2013).
  • 24. This was the beginning… NCTM News Bulletin, December 2006
  • 25. The classroom is your canvas…
  • 26. I just figured I could Google formative assessment and buy whatever formative assessment I wanted/needed. Middle School Teacher Assessment Literacy
  • 27. See: TCM – February 2015
  • 28. See: TCM – February 2015
  • 29. See: TCM – February 2015
  • 30. See: TCM – February 2015
  • 31. What we have done… • First, we recognized: – a need to emphasize and enhance the use of classroom-based formative assessments – to guide teaching and learning. – an overload of publications, published assessments and services promising the quick formative assessment fix. • So, we: – Distilled seemingly endless suggestions and strategies to a small pallet of formative assessment techniques.
  • 33. How is observation assessment? Of course I observe my students—all day long every day! I just never considered the assessment potential of my observations! First Grade Teacher Observations
  • 34. I actually know more about my students because I am always watching them work and also seeing how they interact—with the mathematics they are learning and with each other. For me, observation is my everyday formative assessment lifeline! Fourth Grade Teacher Observations
  • 35. Observations • What would you expect to observe? • How would you know it if you saw it? • What misconceptions might you observe? • How might you record and provide feedback of what you observed?
  • 37. What about You? Observations • You observe students all day long. What are you seeing? • Think about planning a lesson and then teaching it (ANY topic). Now picture any child in your class (1 student) as the lesson is being taught. What would you expect that child to be doing? What might you do about it?
  • 38. What about You? Observations • You observe students all day long. What are you seeing? • Think about planning a lesson and then teaching it (ANY topic). Now picture any child in your class (1 student) as the lesson is being taught. What would you expect that child to be doing? What might you do about it? • Why did you pick THAT child?
  • 39. For some reason I thought that you only interviewed those students who were having problems in math class. Now I regularly interview my algebra students because I want to assess how they are transitioning to using equations and inequalities in a more formal way. Eighth Grade Teacher Interviews
  • 40. Interviews • Long history of use in mathematics and special education (Weaver, 1955; Ginsburg, 1997; Fennell, 1972, 1998 . • Extends the observation. • Takes some time – focused; 1-on-1 or small group • Allows you to dig deeper • Not deficit-based • Provides a glimpse of what a child is thinking
  • 41. Interviews • What would make you decide to work 1:1 with a student or small group? • What questions might you ask? How might the questions be different? • What will you anticipate from students? (Consider understandings AND possible misconceptions.) • What follow-up questions might you ask?
  • 42. What about You? Interviews • Think of a lesson, any lesson, you have recently taught. What did a student do (or not) that might have caused you to have a brief interview (5 minutes or less) with the student?
  • 44. Can you show me how you would order 76, 54, 47, and 89 using the number line? How do you know 3/4 < 7/8? Show me. Show me your graph for that equation. Show Me
  • 45. Show Me • A performance-based response to what a teacher observes. • Combines elements of the observation and interview. • A stop-and-drop activity where a student, small group of students or perhaps the entire class might be asked to show how something works, a problem solved, or a particular representation used.
  • 47. What about You? Show Me • Are there particular lessons that you think would provide opportunity for more Show Me’s than other lessons? Which? Why do you think so? • Think through a lesson topic (ANY level). Think about planning this lesson – what might you observe? What would you have your students show you?
  • 48. Summing Up… These monitor your teaching… • Observations – Paying attention, monitoring • Interviewing – specifics, “I want to know more about what I just observed.” • Show Me – This is an explicit performance of what I would like to see demonstrated.
  • 49. • ”I seriously think that one of the last things I got “good” at as a teacher was questioning.” 6th & 7th grade teacher • “It took me a while to realize that sometimes I needed to change – while I was actually teaching – the questions that I had planned to ask.” 4th grade teacher • “The better I feel about my planning, the easier it is to frame questions and then consider responses to help me plan for the next day.” 2nd grade teacher
  • 50. • The hinge question provides a check for understanding or proficiency at a particular hinge point in a lesson. The success of the lesson hinges on responses to such questions as an indication of whether students understand enough to move on (Fennell, Kobett, & Wray, p. 84).
  • 51. Think of your teachers and their use of questioning… What comes to mind? Can you picture a colleague who is adept at questioning? Can you think of a colleague who struggles with questioning?
  • 52. My take… Students need to talk about the mathematics they are learning…questioning starts that process No questions asked…how can this be?
  • 53. The Hinge – Focus and Issues • Hinge Point or Hinge? • Diagnostic focus – expands the interview… • Multiple choice or not? – Student response cards • 2 minute rule…
  • 54. • Emily has three equally sized apple pies and wants to divide them into eight equal portions to give to eight students who want to take some pie home from a class party. • Can you draw a picture showing how Emily might divide the pies into eight equal portions? Explain how your picture shows eight equal portions. Adapted from Illustrative Math, grade 5
  • 55. • Emily has three equally sized apple pies and wants to divide them into eight equal portions to give to eight students who want to take some pie home from a class party. Which expression represents this problem? A. 3 x 8 B. 8 ÷ 3 C. 3 ÷ 8 D. 24 ÷ 3 Adapted from Illustrative Math, grade 5
  • 56. It’s 9:30 PM, I’m done… • Google Forms • Kahoot • Padlet • Plickers • Today’s Meet • Resources • Every pupil response
  • 57. What about You? Hinge Questions 1. How will you use hinge questions as you teach? 2. If you think of the hinge question as a whole class interview, how will you use the responses? 3. How will you consider student responses to a hinge question? 4. When you prepare to ask a hinge question, what might you anticipate?
  • 58. Date: Mathematics Standard: Hinge Question: Location in the Lesson Anticipated Student Responses Possible Next Steps: Differentiation Strategy Beginning Review Middle Extend End Student Grouping
  • 59. An Exit Task Is a capstone problem or task that captures the major focus of the lesson for that day or perhaps the past several days (Fennell, Kobett, & Wray, 2017).
  • 60. Different than an Exit Ticket…
  • 61. Original Task Alane has the following number cards: 4, 9, and 12. • Make a set for each number. • Which set has the most? Least? Revised Task Alane has the following number cards: 4, 9, and 12. • Show each number with cubes or a drawing. • With cubes or a drawing, make a new group that is between 9 and 12. • If Alane added 2 to each group, what are the new numbers? • Would adding 2 to each number change the order on the number line?
  • 63. What about You? Exit Tasks • Final activity – whole class Show Me Activity • Time for all students to complete the activity should be provided (and for you to review responses)
  • 64. Summing Up… These are closure-connected… • Hinge Questions – How did that lesson go? What’s next? • Exit Tasks – Performance. Demands feedback. A real getting at understanding opportunity.
  • 66. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, Thompson and William, 2007
  • 67. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, • Using evidence of learning, Thompson and William, 2007
  • 68. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, • Using evidence of learning, • To adapt teaching and learning, Thompson and William, 2007
  • 69. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, • Using evidence of learning, • To adapt teaching and learning, • To meet immediate learning needs, Thompson and William, 2007
  • 70. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, • Using evidence of learning, • To adapt teaching and learning, • To meet immediate learning needs, • Minute-to-minute and day-by-day. Thompson and William, 2007
  • 71. Formative assessment is: • Students and teachers, • Using evidence of learning, • To adapt teaching and learning, • To meet immediate learning needs, • Minute-to-minute and day-by-day. Thompson and William, 2007 Love this…
  • 72. What we know…* • Everyday use of the Formative 5 works! • Teachers need time to think about and seriously connect planning, teaching, and assessing. • Support is more than helpful, it’s necessary! *2-3 years of piloting and data collection
  • 73. How can we make sure that: • Teachers plan lessons (very seriously stated); • Classroom based formative assessment is part of that plan; • Hinge questions and exit tasks are prepared as part of the lesson; • Responses to the Formative 5 impact the next day’s planning and instruction?
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  • 76. • Eliminate the wall between Instruction & Assessment • Build Conceptual Understanding & Fluency • Incorporate gaming protocols in 3 age-appropriate motivational frameworks to build confidence • Use dynamic, continuous, and real-time data to create personalized learning paths • Empower students with ownership of their own learning and teachers with powerful instructional data • Create deeper home-to-school connections to facilitate more meaningful interactions for educators and families What We Do: Reimagine K-8 Math for Learners and Learning Guardians
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  • 81. Thank you to our speaker! Francis (Skip) Fennell L. Stanley Bowlsbey Professor of Education and Graduate and Professional Studies Emeritus, McDaniel College
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