As many of you in the LYS Nation already know, Lesa Cainand her staff were some of the early pioneers in the use of Short-term, CommonFormative Assessments. Even now, Icannot find a single campus that has eclipsed their level of implementation andunderstanding. So I thought itwould be helpful to share some of LC’s notes on the nuts and bolts of commonassessment development that she recently sent to a LYS campus.
Just a coupleof thoughts about some things that were brought up in our meeting in regards tothe 3-week checkpoints.
1. Oncethe school year begins, the majority of the job of actually writing thecheckpoints falls to the Instructional Specialists (IS) on each campus. Thereis not enough time in the day to expect teachers to shoulder the work ofinstruction and assessment development once the kids show up. If you haveteachers that want to continue to be involved by all means yes, but it justcan't be the expectation.
2. Oncethe Instructional Specialists take on the huge responsibility of checkpointdevelopment, teachers will have opinions about the checkpoints. When thishappens, the IS has to ask the teacher to write a question that she thinks isbetter. Have the teacher submit it with the question that she challenges. Thatway, input is encouraged and validated and when the summer rolls around and thestaff begin the work of revising the checkpoints, there is already a bank ofquestions to consider.
It took threeyears of deliberate implementation on my campus with the intention of creatinga simple, consistent system. It will not happen after one round ofcheckpoints, two rounds or three. You will discover that hiccups happen every three weeks. Thechallenge is to stick with it, stick with it, stick with it. Talk to each otherabout what you are doing and listen to what others have to say. Steal thebest ideas from each other so that everyone gets the benefit of what is beinglearned. It is this process thatallows every teacher and every student to eventually win!
You are onthe right track, so don’t quit. Remember, it’s called work for a reason.
Think. Work. Achieve.
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