Two-day Formative Insights Summer Institutes deliver unique, hands-on professional learning opportunities for both practitioners and school leaders seeking to improve student outcomes across subject areas. Institutes focus on transformational instructional practices that keep students motivated and equipped to monitor and direct their own learning.
One of the primary goals of formative assessment is to help educators shift away from one-dimensional “teacher delivers information” models of instruction towards more equitable frameworks that promote shared responsibility for learning between students and instructors.
In the Formative Insights Summer Institutes listed below, participants will be guided through research-based principles and practices that demonstrate how formative assessment can be leveraged to promote growth mindsets.
Through hands-on experiential and interactive learning, participants will gain the skills and knowledge needed to nurture student agency–in the classroom or schoolwide.
Formative Insights: Fostering Student Agency in the Classroom
Los Alamitos, CA – July 13-14
Boston, MA – July 27-28
As a participant, you will:
- Understand the role of student agency in academic achievement
- Understand how formative assessment can work as a lever to advance student agency
- Analyze stages of student agency development and how teachers can support this progression
- Practice new modalities for giving feedback and guiding metacognition through experiential learning modules and ample opportunities for collaboration
Formative Insights: School Leadership for Transforming Schoolwide Assessment Cultures
Los Alamitos, CA – July 15-16
Boston, MA – July 29-30
As a participant, you will:
- Learn the five guiding principles for improving leadership related to formative assessment
- Identify the signs of incremental changes in the teacher and student roles and how these shifts can become building blocks for transforming a schoolwide learning culture
- Develop site-specific tools to support these changes
- Practice new models for feedback and communication through experiential learning exercises
Cost to Attend
Early Bird Discount: $675 per participant if registering before March 31, 2020
Institute Fee: $725 per participant after April 1, 2020
Team Discount: A 10% group discount is available for teams of three or more registered at the same time. Note: early registration and team discounts cannot be combined.
Questions? Please reach out to Barbara Jones at [email protected].