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The Handbook for Design in Five
Assessment Tools and Protocols for Teachers and Teams
Make assessment meaningful, doable, and intentional. This practical companion handbook to the Design in Five, Second Edition, gives teachers simple assessment protocols, editable templates, and artificial intelligence support to drive the Design in Five process. Revolutionize assessment from standards to grading reform and student reflection.
Practical assessment protocols and tools for teachers
Authors Nicole Dimich and Anisa Baker-Busby deliver the ultimate practical handbook on assessment for educators. Using the framework from Design in Five, Second Edition, this companion guide simplifies complex work into step-by-step protocols and editable templates for teachers. The examples and tools facilitate implementing and using all phases of the Design in Five process, saving time, ensuring student investment, and increasing achievement.
K–12 teachers, principals, and instructional coaches can use this book to:
- Examine, identify, and select relevant educational standards to guide learning goals
- Analyze standards to create a clear learning progression across curriculum design
- Develop an assessment plan to measure student growth along learning progressions
- Create assessments according to criteria that align with target learning goals
- Engage students in continued learning through reflection, feedback, and clear test scoring
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Additional Information
![Design in Five [Second Edition]
Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
By Nicole Dimich
Foreword by Douglas Reeves
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“The Handbook for Design in Five is a beautiful companion for the very impactful book Design in Five. I have used this process for designing and responding to assessment for years, and now I can add the handbook to my list of recommended resources! The handbook offers specific tools and templates for every stage of assessment design, with the added bonus of AI prompts to support each part of the work. This handbook will engage educators in thoughtful assessment design and tangibly support each decision they will need to make along the way.”
“The Handbook for Design in Five is a powerful, practical resource that brings clarity and coherence to assessment design while honoring the realities educators face every day. Drawing from a deep understanding of PLCs, MTSS, and instructional leadership, this handbook moves assessment from compliance to purpose, empowering teachers and teams to use assessment as meaningful information that drives learning, reflection, and student investment. It is an essential guide for leaders and educators committed to improving practice, building collective efficacy, and ensuring high levels of learning for all students.”
“Design In Five: Assessment Tools and Protocols for Teachers and Teams is a handbook that calls educators to act—providing elementary through secondary educators with tangible, adaptable, transferrable resources (protocols, templates, AI prompts, FAQs, and YouTube videos of examples in practice) to not only meet collaborative teams where they are in the Design in Five phases but to maximize efficiency to support what is so limited in our profession: time! Ultimately, Dimich and Baker-Busby inspire us to realize that when teachers have clarity around the cognitive level of the standards and use authentic assessment as instruction and information to inform relevant instructional response, this leads to student clarity, ownership, engagement, and confidence as they become active participants in their own learning.”
