Newsletter Archive

March’s newsletter highlights the Formative Insights team, including their work being shortlisted in a HundrED/Jacobs Foundation initiative focused on formative assessment innovations from across the world. Joanne Jensen’s work in early grade assessments is also highlighted in this newsletter.

CSAA highlights the updated Formative Insights: Assessment for Learning Spotlight, which includes new resources and case studies highlighting design and implementation of formative assessment practices. The January newsletter also showcases new services that support professional learning around formative assessment practices.

Formative assessment supports are the focus of this newsletter, highlighting WestEd services for building educator and leader capacity to understand and implement practices that encourage students to take active roles in their learning.

This newsletter highlights WestEd services for rigorous data analysis in support of instructional decision-making. WestEd is ready to support states and districts with using data to inform student-centered assessment and accountability practices.

Focused on services and resources for reviewing and redesigning assessment and accountability systems, this newsletter focuses on how WestEd supports states and districts with improvement efforts.

This newsletter highlights new WestEd services supporting states, districts and schools in designing and implementing curricular, assessment, and data analysis supports. Also included is an article to support students’ development of writing skills in different content areas.