Chapter 9: Seeing the Learning

What is behind the phrase “authentic assessment”? Where do students and parents fit in assessment in a democratic institution?

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Twitter sized messages from this chapter:

• How do we know what children are learning? Ch 9 of #YearatMH is out
• How can schools get student assessment right? #YearatMH has an answer
• I really believe in looking at a students work as the best indicator of their learning. #YearatMH
• Eighth grade portfolios at #YearatMH are like a full thesis review of student learning.
• What does learning, releasing anger, pop n lock, and authentic assessment have in common? Watch Ch. 9 and see what Lorenzo has to teach us.

WATCH

• This is What Intrinsic Motivation Looks Like
• YATST: Motivating Us to Do Our Best
• Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements (Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• Comprehensive Assessment: A New York City Success Story (Edutopia)
• Keeping It Relevant and "Authentic" (Edutopia)
• Thinking Big About Engagement (Edutopia)
• How To Make Time for Every Student (Edutopia)
• Introducing Pathbrite Portfolios
• NY Performance Standards Consortium
• What Is Authentic Assessment? (Edutopia)

READ

• Should States Be Sued for Providing Low-Quality Schools?
• Assessment at Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• Walking Our Talk About Standards (Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• Mission Hill Newsletter 11/2/98: Can We Talk? (And Keep On Talking?), by Deborah Meier (Mission Hill School)
• Mission Hill Newsletter 10/14/95: What's in the Data?, by Ann Ruggiero (Mission Hill School)
• Ten Takeaway Tips for Using Authentic Assessment (Edutopia)
• Authentic Assessment: How You Can Do It (Edutopia)
• Practical PBL: The Ongoing Challenges of Assessment (Edutopia)
• Take a Deeper Look at Assessment for Understanding (Edutopia)
• Deeper Learning: Authentic Student Assessment (Edutopia)
• A Teacher's Reflections on Building Kindness and Intelligence Through Trust (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Real Life: I'm a Principal (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Ramblings of a Professional Learning Community (Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• Ten Great Curricula - Presentations of Learning at Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• Innovate to Educate (ASCD)
• Innovating Pedagogy 2012 (Open University)
• Authentic Assessment (Fairtest)
• Tap Into History: NDSG Monographs on Evaluation (NDSG)
• Competency Works (Nellie Mae Education Foundation)
• A 1st Grade Class Invites Visitors to Celebrate Their Learning 4x/Year (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Summit Elementary School Replaced Its Awards Night with a Schoolwide Celebration of All Students' Successes (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Sitting Next to Young Learners (Opal School)

LISTEN

• Two Steps Back
• Assessment 101 Podcast (Whole Child Initiative)

DO

• Resources for Comprehensive Assessment (Edutopia)
• Learn from a piece of student work (SRI)
• Take an In-Depth Assessment of Your School (IDEA)
• Get ideas for showcasing learning at the end of the school year (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Help students see their learning by describing it for them (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Use the plan-do-reflect structure of Academic Choice to integrate self-assessment into instruction (NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Attend The Opal School Summer Symposium, June 20-22 in Portland, Oregon (Opal School)