Principal Leadership - November 2014 - (Page 36)

Fostering an Environment for Effective Formative Assessment and Implementation of the Common Core O Corey Savage, Marshall Perkins, Callie Heck, and Mark McGarry On March 28, 2014, the College of Education at Michigan State University hosted a conference entitled "Re-envisioning Assessment, Accountability, and Data Use to Support Schools" with Dr. Rick Stiggins, an expert in formative assessment, as the keynote speaker. Panelists and attendees included stakeholders across the education sector in Michigan, including 36 Principal Leadership | November 2014 administrators, officials from the Michigan Department of Education, researchers, teachers, administrators, journalists, and nonprofit organization associates. While there was constructive debate and conversation across issues such as teacher evaluation, teacher preparation, and parent and public use of data, a particular panel of educators and administrators from Holt (MI) Junior High School gave attendees an inside look at how formative assessment

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Principal Leadership - November 2014

2014 NASSP Digital Principal Award Winners
Dance in the Rain
Teaching to One: A New Approach to Data-Driven Instruction
Fostering an Environment for Effective Formative Assessment and Implementation of the Common Core
Closing Opportunity Gaps
Embracing Data: It Can Be Done
Visible Learning
Lessons Learned from Litigation

Principal Leadership - November 2014