Classroom Formative Assessment Practice

Professional Learning + Online Resources

Take students from checked out to fully

engaged with proven instructional strategies

Increase student engagement and growth. Help all students grow between interim assessments by equipping teachers with quick, informal strategies to assess learning in the moment and make instant adjustments for individuals and groups in all grade levels and subjects.

Accomplish district and school-wide goals. Our workshops and online resources focus on practical, research-based strategies that help teachers differentiate instruction, reinforce Response to Intervention (RTI) efforts, and guide students in developing college and career readiness skills.

Create a cohesive assessment system. By using formative assessment practices alongside data-driven assessments like Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) and Skills Navigator®, educators gain a complete picture of how students are learning and progressing over time.

Hands-on experience. We know how to help learning stick—and it’s not by lecturing. Participants practice strategies in a dynamic, hands-on environment.

Relevant content. Teachers stay engaged with content tailored to their needs and opportunities to choose some learning centers in each workshop.

Practical tools to maintain these practices in the classroom. We make it easy to implement, share, and build on the learning. Participants leave with interactive guides to reference later, as well as district-wide access to an online peer community and supplemental learning resources.

Make a difference with powerful practices

Why our professional learning is effective

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Research from Mike Schmoker shows: Consistent formative assessment can account for up to

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PROVIDING FEEDBACKProviding feedback that moves

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Eliciting evidence of learning througha variety of methods

Clarifying learning for and with learners

Activating learners to support themselves and their peers

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Building Your Formative Assessment Practice DELIVERY OPTIONS

Full-day workshop 40 participants

WHAT YOU’LL LEARNThis foundational workshop introduces the four key formative assessment practices through an experiential model of learning. Participants explore how formative assessment fits into a balanced, cohesive assessment system that supports learning for all students. This full day provides ideas teachers can apply immediately to their practice and sets the stage for deeper learning in subsequent workshops that delve deeper into each of the four formative assessment practices.

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Get a professional learning mix that best meets the needs of your team and your students. We can partner with you to develop a long-term plan or have a consultant join you onsite to address a specific instructional challenge. And you can mix and match all of these options with any of our other professional learning or coaching.

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DELIVERY OPTIONSFull-day workshop (or mix & match with half-days from any other topic) | 40 participants

WHAT YOU’LL LEARNGain strategies for developing clear learning targets, effective roadmaps, and success criteria that will impact student engagement and achievement.

AVAILABLE HALF-DAY MODULES:• Developing Learning Targets

and Criteria• Using Learning Targets for

Classroom Success

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Eliciting EvidenceDELIVERY OPTIONS

Full-day workshop (or mix & match with half-days from any other topic) | 40 participants

WHAT YOU’LL LEARNLearn and practice strategies that will help to improve questioning skills and enable teachers to make timely instructional adjustments based on student responses.

AVAILABLE HALF-DAY MODULES:• Questioning for Learning• Engaging All Students

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Providing FeedbackDELIVERY OPTIONS

Full-day workshop (or mix & match with half-days from any other topic) | 40 participants

WHAT YOU’LL LEARNExplore how different types of feedback affect student learning and investigate tools that support quality feedback approaches in multiple teaching and learning scenarios.

AVAILABLE HALF-DAY MODULES:• Learning-Focused Feedback• Classroom Feedback Strategies and Tools

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Activating Learners DELIVERY OPTIONS

Full-day workshop (or mix & match with half-days from any other topic) | 40 participants

WHAT YOU’LL LEARNDevelop plans that will support students in peer and self assessment and encourage student engagement and ownership of learning.

AVAILABLE HALF-DAY MODULES:• Peer and Self Assessment• Student-Directed Learning

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Participants may request a certificate of completion at the end of any workshop.

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“Formative assessment has changed the way we view assessing our kids, has given us many more tools to assess without the onus of grading, and has made us more deliberate about the focus of our lessons.”

—Eric Sandrock, Teacher, Ashland Middle School, OR

Deepen and share the learning district-wideThe research is clear: one-off workshops are ineffective in promoting deep understanding and affecting lasting change. We have developed several options for your whole team to extend their learning from the moment a face-to-face session ends to years later. Use our resources on your own, or share them in your professional learning communities (PLCs).

When your school, district or regional service agency sets up an onsite workshop or regional event, all of your teachers gain access to these complimentary resources.

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COMMUNITYConnect with peers and NWEA experts. Ask questions, share experiences, and explore resources that relate to formative assessment practices.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT STRATEGY TOOLKITSThese online toolkits include all of the strategies from each workshop, as well as bonus content to apply the knowledge to day-to-day classroom instruction.

SELF-PACED LEARNING EXPERIENCESReinforce and sustain learning through online courses that focus on formative assessment strategies.

Founded by educators nearly 40 years ago, Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment, Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®). More than 7,600 partners in US schools, school districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators’ ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth, educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly eight million students.

Discover how this powerful learning can drive results in your classrooms. Connect with an account manager at 866-654-3246 to discuss

your needs, or explore more at NWEA.org/FormativePD

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