Let's Talk About Assessment

Welcome to April!

This month's resources focus on the topic of assessment. Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan's 'Street Data: A Next Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation' is required reading, while this Usable Knowledge research story from the Harvard Graduate School of Education provides insight into how to effectively assess creative work.

Don't miss the upcoming 'Moving Beyond “Final Exams”: Designing Student-Driven Authentic Assessments' - a free Global Online Academy event on April 29th. One of my biggest hopes as we work to build a post-COVID world, is that we radically reimagine assessment - and do not return to the assessment practices that we know actively hinder the intrinsic motivation to learn.

See you next month - by which time I hope to be vaccinated :)