Yesterday our Head of School lead an Understanding By Design (UBD) workshop for the middle school faculty.  When discussing the assessment process, she stressed the need to create assessments that: Reveal deep and important understandings Core Performance Assessment Provide information about what students know about the topic Short answer quizzes and tests, guided response, timelines, [...]

This afternoon, after an extremely harried day, I participated in an Educational Policy Committee meeting to discuss Charlotte Danielson’s four domains of teacher evaluation. Having arrived 15 minutes late from another obligation, I was just getting up to speed with the concept of “Evidence of Teaching” as being Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, or Distinguished when my [...]