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Expert practitioners address the role of school leaders to model positive change and ignite a shift toward assessments that drive instruction.

Align instruction and assessment with the new science standards, and create proficiency scales to plan all types of lessons.

Discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments.

Discover a clear path for implementing a proficiency-based grading (evidence-based grading) system where student growth is at the heart of every classroom, in every content area, from career and technical education to world languages.

Embrace a technology-supported and balanced approach for performance-based assessment. Use triangulation of assessment through performance observations, conversations, and physical products to accurately measure student competence for learning objectives.

Learn how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices to help diverse 21st century learners reach proficiency.

Schools have long tied student behavior to academic grades. This book will help you separate achievement from behavior and learn how to teach students positive behaviors, social-emotional intelligence, and skills for navigating their place as learners.

This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations and strategies for designing units of study that center on students writing narrative fiction and nonfiction.

This book champions narrative-based approaches to boost student engagement and creativity. It explores how to use storytelling to craft meaningful assessments, weaving together research, practical classroom strategies, and diverse cultural perspectives.

Discover student numeracy assessment and practice (SNAP)—a practical approach to help classroom teachers evaluate number sense. With its simple and reliable method, K–8 math teachers can quickly implement SNAP in their daily teaching practices and ignite a sense of wonder and thinking for math in their students.