District strategies for spreading and deepening formative assessment practice systemwide¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

Sunnyside School District supported, spread, and deepened formative assessment districtwide through a set of enumerated strategies: constant and consistent messaging around the definition of and expectations for formative assessment; professional learning at monthly Principals Meetings; principal cadre and coaches walk-throughs/instructional rounds with the district team; real-time feedback and coaching with leaders and teachers; ongoing WestEd-sponsored courses providing time for peer feedback and self-reflection, beginning with 245 participants and adding a new cohort of 100+ each year; and identification of Lead Teachers who lead the work at their sites.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A districtwide coherence framework with student agency at the center and a common vision of student agency as each student being an equal partner in the learning

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• District leaders
• Principals
• Teachers

Target Learning Goals¶

• Making classroom practice everyone's work and eliciting student thinking through formative assessment

Related Strategies¶

• Recommendations for state education agencies and districts implementing formative assessment at scale
• Provide clear guidance to coaches when implementing a districtwide coaching program

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Center on School Turnaround at WestEd. (2018). Thought Leadership Forum brief: Formative assessment and agency as drivers of instructional transformation. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED592990