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From Conversation to Action: Developing and Implementing School Accountability Principles

On December 11, 2024, WestEd school accountability experts Eric Crane, Mitch Herz, and Corey Cornett are hosting a “how-to” workshop that explores concrete actions for developing state accountability principles. Participants will learn more about rationales for these accountability principles, determining which ideas to incorporate into principles, and facilitating partner discussions when developing principles. Attendees will […]

English Learner (EL) Pre-Referral Flow Chart Questions

This decision-making flow chart includes target questions that Child Study teams or MTSS teams should address when working through the pre-referral decision-making process. Each school or district may modify these questions to reflect their own policies and procedures, but the outline of this flow chart provides some key decision points that should be considered when […]

Guiding Questions for Leading Formative Assessment

This template offers guiding questions for leaders to use as a self-assessment or in dialogue with peers, to explore their use of the five principles in WestEd’s Formative Assessment Leadership Framework.

Case Reviews: Implementing the Spirit of Formative Assessment

The following resource provides vignettes about teachers who are attempting to implement formative assessment in their schools. The two vignettes are from a study by Earl and Timperley (2014) that showcase examples from a secondary school mathematics department. The first case shows an example of a teacher implementing the “letter” of formative assessment. In the […]

Science Assessment Item Collaborative Grade 5 and Grade 12 Item Cluster Prototypes

The Grade 5 and Grade 12 Item Cluster Prototypes follow the principles and recommendations set forth in the SAIC Assessment Framework and Item Specifications Guidelines for an NGSS-aligned large-scale summative assessment item cluster. The prototypes serve as initial models for measuring the three-dimensional science learning called for in the NGSS and should promote ongoing dialogue […]