Assessment

Our On-Site Assessment Professional Development

Rely on Solution Tree for on-site professional development with the power to reduce failure rates and increase student success in every classroom. Our assessment experts will guide your school in developing grading practices and assessments for learning. Discover how your school or district can implement effective student assessment activities such as self-assessment and common formative assessment.

Where am I on my professional learning journey?

My school is ready to start building expertise with Assessment professional development. See one-day services

We need specialized professional learning services to continue deepening our expertise with Assessment. See two-four day services

We're a high-funtioning team looking to sustain our expertise, leadership, and achievement through Assessment. See multi-day services

Your Goal

Building Your Expertise

One‑Day Services

Keynote

Whether you’re kicking off the school year, launching a new assessment initiative, or wanting to address specific challenges, a customized keynote presentation will help your team implement and sustain effective assessment practices and procedures.

Overview

Get a comprehensive overview of effective assessment practices, and receive customized guidance and support from an expert. Potential topics for this one-day on-site service include the basics of balanced assessment, cultivating assessment literacy, and developing a common language in assessment.

Your Goal

Deepening Your Expertise

Two‑Four Day Services

Designing Quality Assessments

Discover how to design assessments that reflect student learning in meaningful ways.

Explore the characteristics of quality assessments, and design tools to enhance assessment literacy.
Learn how to design or revise current assessments to more effectively guide instruction, involve students, and communicate learning.

Grading and Reporting Student Learning

Align instruction and assessments with new standards for student learning, and enhance the effectiveness of current grading practices.

Uncover a variety of ways to report student progress to parents and the community that stress the importance of fairness and honesty in grading.
Design equitable grading policies that motivate and empower students.

Your Goal

Sustaining Your Expertise

Multi‑Day Services

Embedded Coaching

Provide differentiated professional development to your staff with job-embedded coaching. A coach with firsthand assessment experience will help individual educators as well as teams reflect on their current assessment practices and procedures and then take the necessary steps to make targeted improvements that result in increased student achievement.

Customized Services

Share your vision of assessment with us, and we’ll design a learning experience tailor-made to your challenges and goals. Our assessment experts are available for both on-site and virtual training, ensuring both teams and individuals get the support they need in the learning format that works best for them.