Week+4+P6

Planning Session 6 | Assessments / Whole School Reform It goes without saying that as you end studying this book, you’re clearly at the beginning of studying your school’s or district’s own pathway to the expectations of the CCSS. To that end, use this last session not so much as a final sendoff but instead to make plans for future studies. The section on developing assessments for wholeschool reform, beginning on page 193, provides some suggestions for one such future-looking study to try. You might instead (or additionally) take up the charge of doing a few things really well and help your colleagues take the “thing we do well” that they discussed at the start of this session, turn back to the appropriate chapter(s) of this book and the corresponding CCSS pages, and continue developing teaching materials.

1 How will we gather evidence? 2 Prioritize the 4 concrete actions we can take at WVMS for reading standards 1 and 10. Select a goal that matches a school goal SIP.

Plan next steps – short, mid- and long term goals 3 Literature and Informational Reading

Prioritize

Plan of right-now action

Plan instruction that will lead to student independence.

Teachers go through the reading process as “students” 4 Narrative, Argument, Informational Writing

Prioritize

Plan of right-now action

Develop system of on-going assessment – Formative – and define clear next steps based on formative assessment