This is a guide to help practitioners implement the means to reflect together on the quality and value of student work, and use the experience of shared evaluation as a means to engage in whole-school reform. It includes examples from schools that have developed their own methods.
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''Any group of teachers, parents, or community members could use [this book] to participate in the hard work of assessing where our schools are and how they can improve.'' --From the Foreword to the first edition by Kathleen Cushman
''This is a probing and practical guide. I commend these practices of looking together at student work as powerful resources not just for the technical but for the cultural enterprise of education. '' --From the Foreword by David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Senior Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero
''School leaders looking for systemic strategies to improve student achievement would be well-served by Looking Together at Student Work.'' --The School Administrator, February 2009
''This is a probing and practical guide. I commend these practices of looking together at student work as powerful resources not just for the technical but for the cultural enterprise of education. '' --From the Foreword by David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Senior Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero
''School leaders looking for systemic strategies to improve student achievement would be well-served by Looking Together at Student Work.'' --The School Administrator, February 2009
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Tina Blythe is director of faculty development at the Boston Architectural College and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. David Allen is a senior research associate at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is an educational consultant.
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Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning (Series on School Reform),
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Excellent resource for schools looking for a concise reporting of different ways to look at data and student work. Guidance and considerations for first timer groups as well as thoughtful advice to teams trying to develop norms and procedures, while avoiding serious setbacks from needless mistakes. We have purchased multiple copies of this book for our team after positive reviews from primary and intermediate teachers alike.
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The faculty of a recently founded charter high school in Massachusetts realized that their new school community needed to develop a shared set of standards for evaluating student work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
collaborative assessment conference, presenting teacher, examining student work, student exhibitions, looking together Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The faculty of a recently founded charter high school in Massachusetts realized that their new school community needed to develop a shared set of standards for evaluating student work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
collaborative assessment conference, presenting teacher, examining student work, student exhibitions, looking together Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tuning Protocol, Exhibition Committee, Coalition of Essential Schools, Crucial Considerations New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding (Series on School Reform) by David Allen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Professional Development and Practice Series) (Series on School Reform) by Sari Knopp Biklen in Front Matter
- Eyes on the Child: Three Portfolio Stories (Series on School Reform) by Kathe Jervis in Front Matter
- Surviving School Reform: A Year in the Life of One School (Series on School Reform) by Laraine K. Hong in Front Matter
- Stirring the Chalkdust: Tales of Teachers Changing Classroom Practice (On Essential Schooling, No 1) by Patricia A. Wasley in Front Matter
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