Assessment Collaborative Resources

Reform classroom-level grading practices through systems-level structures and supports. With an eight-step change framework, this book will equip administrators, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders with practical strategies and reproducible tools to enact sustainable changes in assessment and grading.

Utilizing the elements of effective leadership—purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability—education leaders can overcome any challenge.

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

Explore a four-stage authentic alignment model, which will take you through the Why, Eye, How, and Now of transforming your school's culture.

Discover how to build a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility to create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide.

Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, innovative culture, and discover strategies for navigating challenges you may face along the way.

Discover how to carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

Identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

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

What can organizations do to create profound, enduring changes? International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal and then explore constructive alternatives to traditional change strategies.