The Assessment Toolkit

Professional development for educators in assessment to boost student learning

Transform assessment into a powerful tool that inspires student learning. Featuring resources by leading assessment experts, this toolkit includes a collection of professional development resources to involve students in the assessment process, improve teacher efficacy, and ensure reporting practices accurately measure student achievement. This curated kit includes 30 books for whole-school professional development.

School leaders will:

• Discover research-based solutions for tackling any assessment-related challenge
• Leverage tips, tools, and templates from experts proven to motivate school improvement
• Deepen their understanding of how to design assessments that support a positive school culture while motivating students to succeed
• Equip their staff with a variety of resources flexible enough to meet the needs of adult learners

The Assessment Toolkit contains the following titles (products may be purchased separately):

• Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment With Real-Time Decisions
• Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice
• Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies
• The New Art and Science of Classroom Assessment
• Letting Data Lead: How to Design, Analyze, and Respond to Classroom Assessment
• The Handbook for Collaborative Common Assessments: Tools for Design, Delivery, and Data Analysis
• Proficiency-Based Instruction: Rethinking Lesson Design and Delivery
• Proficiency-Based Assessment: Process, Not Product
• Collaborative Common Assessments: Teamwork. Instruction. Results.
• Creating a Culture of Feedback
• Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
• Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom
• FAST Grading: A Guide to Implementing Best Practices
• Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset
• On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting
• Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading
• Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices That Honor K–12 Teachers and Learners
• Simplifying Common Assessment: A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work®
• Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work®
• Rebooting Assessment: A Practical Guide for Balancing Conversations, Performances, and Products
• Student Self-Assessment: Data Notebooks, Portfolios, and Other Tools to Advance Learning
• Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Assessment and Grading
• Get Set, Go: Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems
• Coaching Your Classroom: How to Deliver Actionable Feedback to Students
• Jackpot!: Nurturing Student Investment Through Assessment
• Ethical Test Preparation in the Classroom
• De-Stress the Test: Brain-Friendly Strategies to Prepare Students for High-Stakes Assessments
• The Authentic Standards-Based Environment: A Systematic Approach to Learning Targets, Assessment, and Data
• You Can Learn!: Building Student Ownership, Motivation, and Efficacy With the PLC at Work® Process
• The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work®