FEA PUBLIC EVENTS
Transforming ESEA: Helping Public Schools ImproveTransforming ESEA is a series of public discussions sponsored by the Forum on Educational Accountability. Forthcoming forums includeTransforming ESEA to Meet the Needs of all Learners, addressing needs of English language learners and students with disabilities; and on how the federal government can help schools, districts and states build their capacity to serve all students well.
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CURRENT EVENT:
High-quality assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning and provides valuable information about school quality and progress. This webinar will present two methods for gathering detailed information – the Learning Record, and performance assessments developed by the New York Performance Standards Consortium. These provide rich feedback to students and teachers, summarize student progress, and in aggregate provide valid and reliable information for public reporting and accountability. We will also discuss how these proven approaches to assessment can inform state and federal policy. The more comprehensive information they provide is more useful than relying heavily on standardized tests. The webinar will begin with three short presentations, followed by questions and discussion.
Who: Ann Cook, Executive Director, New York Performance Standards Consortium
Sally Thomas, former director, Center for Language in Learning/Learning Record
Monty Neill, Executive Director, Fairtest; Chair, Forum on Educational Accountability
Moderator: Tom Zembar, Senior Policy Analyst, NEA
Sally Thomas, former director, Center for Language in Learning/Learning Record
Monty Neill, Executive Director, Fairtest; Chair, Forum on Educational Accountability
Moderator: Tom Zembar, Senior Policy Analyst, NEA
When: September 27, 2012, 3:30 – 4:30 Eastern time
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Presenters:
Ann Cook directs the Consortium, a coalition of New York State public high schools that have designed a highly successful performance-based assessment system that is practitioner-designed, student focused and externally assessed. She is founding co-director of Urban Academy Laboratory High School in NYC. Seehttp://www.performanceassessment.org.
Sally Thomas is a long time teacher, teacher educator, and researcher; user of the Learning Record in grades 2-3, 5-6, HS English, and in teacher education programs; LR coach and Co-Director of the Center for Language in Learning which supported the LR nationally. See http://www.fairtest.org/learning-record.
Monty Neill, Ed.D., has led FairTest’s work on testing in the public schools for more than 25 years. FairTest advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. Seehttp://www.fairtest.org.
Ann Cook directs the Consortium, a coalition of New York State public high schools that have designed a highly successful performance-based assessment system that is practitioner-designed, student focused and externally assessed. She is founding co-director of Urban Academy Laboratory High School in NYC. Seehttp://www.performanceassessment.org.
Sally Thomas is a long time teacher, teacher educator, and researcher; user of the Learning Record in grades 2-3, 5-6, HS English, and in teacher education programs; LR coach and Co-Director of the Center for Language in Learning which supported the LR nationally. See http://www.fairtest.org/learning-record.
Monty Neill, Ed.D., has led FairTest’s work on testing in the public schools for more than 25 years. FairTest advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. Seehttp://www.fairtest.org.
The Forum on Educational Accountability bases its work on the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB, signed by more than 150 national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent and civic organizations. FEA has offered proposals for overhauling NCLB/ESEA. Its work on assessment includes the report, Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning. Seehttp://www.edaccountability.org.
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