Assessing Student Learning (Academic and Social)

The Kansas Teaching & Leading Project offers assistance on assessing student learning as well as resources to help schools analyze student learning data and help schools figure out what they can do with this data to increase student learning. The Kansas Teaching & Leading Project offers advice on assessment auditing and a tiered system of support audits as well as helping teachers collect authentic artifacts of student learning as it all happens.
What can we Do or Consider First?
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What can we do or consider first?

Attention Teachers and Administrators: join discussion on how students learn in classrooms, the importance of using data daily, and data audits.

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Contact: Tonya Smedley

This document, ideally, would be copied for each student’s use. We designed this document to accompany the portfolio created in Xello / Career Cruising / Kansas Pipeline, etc.

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Contact: Lori Jensen Wilson

This resource can be used by general and special educators. The brief provides 10 pre-assessment tools used during distance learning or face to face learning to plan instruction for students with and without disabilities.

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Contact: Cary Rogers

Social-emotional-character growth indicators can include attitude and behavior, attendance and program completion, bullying prevention, character development, volunteerism, and school-based mental health. An important part of a systematic approach are day-to-day classroom formative assessments. This session will address what do these look like and the different tools that are available.

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Contact: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

What can we consider or do next?

This resource is designed to support IEP Teams as they determine whether a child needs compensatory services. Compensatory services are generally defined as educational services above and beyond that normally due to a student.

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Contact: Laura Jurgensen

This resource can be used by families, general and special educators and administrators when considering how grading and reporting will be done for students with significant cognitive disabilities when receiving instruction in the general education classroom.

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Contact: Cary Rogers

These 5 strategies can be used by general and special education teachers to support student understanding of their own learning.

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Contact: Cary Rogers

Districts collect data in various ways, but not all data is created equal. This presentation will give district leaders an overview of how to look at data for their school improvement plans.
1. Know how and why we collect data.
2. Know the different kinds of data.
3. Know how to ask questions when analyzing data.

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Contact: Julie Ewing

The 2021-2022 HGSS Classroom Based Assessment will be given to all 4th, 7th, and 11th graders. Learn about what you need to do for this assessment in your classroom.

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Contact: Marcie Fiorentino

How can we dig deeper?

Resources and videos coming soon!