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Assessment Summit: Ahead of the Curve
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October 6-9, 2010
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
265 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta, GA
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Anne Davies |
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Richard DuFour |
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Thomas Guskey |
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Wayne Hulley |
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Robert J. Marzano |
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Ken O'Connor |
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Douglas Reeves |
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Rick Stiggins |
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Dylan Wiliam |
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Experience an assessment event that covers all the issues necessary for your team to improve instruction in each classroom throughout your school system.
Effective assessment practices have the power to transform learning. Schools that align their policies and practices to the most current research make the most dramatic gains in student achievement. At this summit, the most distinguished assessment experts in North America illustrate why the purpose of assessment is not to rate, rank, and sort students, but to provide meaningful feedback that leads to high performance for all students. You are invited to join luminaries Anne Davies, Richard DuFour, Thomas Guskey, Robert J. Marzano, Douglas Reeves, and others as they share the latest compelling research and its practical applications. Gain a comprehensive understanding of classroom assessment practices and timely interventions. Learn how to involve students in the assessment process, design and use meaningful common formative assessments, grade students more effectively, and much more.
You will:
- Explore the impact of formative assessment in the classroom.
- Understand the role of timely feedback to enlighten and motivate students.
- Gain specific assessment strategies to use with diverse learners.
- Discover how to integrate performance assessments into more traditional assessment methods.
- Build capacity to involve students in meaningful self-monitoring.
- Identify specific steps to ensure common formative assessments play a key role in improving instruction and student learning.
- Reflect on your grading policies and practices in light of the latest research.
- Learn strategies for assessing 21st century learning outcomes.
- Align assessment policies and practices systemwide.
- Examine issues of assessment leadership.
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Events reach capacity quickly. Please confirm your registration before making travel plans.
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
265 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30303
Reservations
504.474.2009
Discounted rate (single or double)
$199 per night
Deadline: September 30, 2010
Online hotel reservations
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Keynote Presentations
Anne Davies
Leading the Way to Making Classroom Assessment Work
Dr. Davies focuses on the importance of assessment for learning to support all student and adult learners. Drawing ideas from two books she coauthored, Leading the Way to Making Classroom Assessment Work and Transforming Barriers to Assessment for Learning, she reviews quality classroom assessment. A variety of video clips illustrate what leaders need to be watching for and doing themselves if assessment for learning is going to be successfully implemented in classrooms, schools, and systems.
Richard DuFour
The Critical Role of Assessment in a Professional Learning Community at Work™
Dr. DuFour provides a rationale in support of three assumptions that establish assessment as a powerful component of professional learning communities. Explore examples of how schools use assessment to bring about dramatic gains in student and adult learning. Learn a framework for examining the assessment practices in your school and district.
Thomas Guskey
Using Standards and Assessment to Improve Student Learning
Performance assessments make a difference for students only when they are integrated into the instructional process. This presentation focuses on a variety of ways to set clear learning goals, gather useful information, and document student learning progress in the context of modern classrooms. Learn how to use classroom assessments as effective learning tools, integrate performance assessments with more traditional testing and evaluation methods, and align assessment procedures with important learning goals to better meet the needs of diverse learners.
Wayne Hulley
Ahead of the Curve: Getting By or Getting Better
A school can “get by” teaching to the test and achieving incremental average improvement in student outcomes. Examine what works in schools that are “getting better.” Personal commitment, professional growth, a positive outlook, and initiative are crucial factors. This keynote features research from Wayne’s book Getting By or Getting Better, coauthored by Linda Dier, to illustrate how effective assessment strategies can be used to ensure success for all students.
Robert J. Marzano
Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading
Learn how to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading that will enhance both teaching and learning. Dr. Marzano provides specific information on the benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types. He also illustrates the necessary changes in instruction that must accompany a rigorous formatively based approach to assessment. Finally, he explains and exemplifies new approaches to grading that better support formative assessment.
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Keynote Presentations (continued)
Ken O’Connor
The Last Frontier: Tackling the Grading Dilemma
While many schools and districts have made significant advances in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, grading practices have not changed. This frequently leads to a lack of alignment that is particularly common in middle and high schools. Ken focuses on ways to solve the grading dilemma by following eight guidelines that make grades consistent, accurate, meaningful, and supportive of learning.
Douglas Reeves
Assessing 21st Century Skills
Learn three fundamental shifts in assessment practices that must occur to truly assess 21st century skills. Dr. Reeves shares benefits of and strategies for shifting from standardized to authentic assessments, from secret to student-involved assessments, and from strictly individually focused assessments to team assessments. Equipped with new evidence, Dr. Reeves delivers a blend of humor, evidence, and interactivity to bring relevance and practical application to each participant.
Rick Stiggins
Seven Essential Assessment Actions for School Leaders
Learn how to balance local assessment systems, weave standards into productive assessment systems, assure accurate systemwide assessment and effective communication of results that support student success, and make students partners in their own success. Participants leave with a focused action plan for making assessment a foundation of their school-improvement efforts.
Dylan Wiliam
Content Then Process: Teacher Learning Communities in the Service of Formative Assessment
Effective implementation of formative assessment requires changes in teachers’ daily practices and the formation of building-based teacher learning communities (TLCs) in which teachers are held accountable and provide support to one another. Learn what must be present in a school culture to support this ongoing professional development.
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| Wednesday, October 6 |
| 5:00–7:00p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:00–8:45p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| Thursday, October 7 |
| 6:45–7:45a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 7:45–9:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–10:00a.m. |
Break |
| 10:00–11:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 11:30a.m.–1:00p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00–2:30p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 2:30–3:00p.m. |
Break |
| 3:00–4:30p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| Friday, October 8 |
| 6:45–7:45a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 7:45–9:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–10:00a.m. |
Break |
| 10:00–11:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 11:30a.m.–1:00p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00–2:30p.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 2:30–2:45p.m. |
Break |
| 2:45–3:45p.m. |
Panel Discussion |
| Saturday, October 9 |
| 6:45–7:45a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 7:45–9:30a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–9:45a.m. |
Break |
| 9:45–11:15a.m. |
Keynote Presentation |
Agenda is subject to change without notice. |
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You will receive a certificate of participation after the event. Please check with your state Department of Education for CEU information. You may also register for graduate credit through Grand Canyon University.
Download Request for University Credit and Official Transcript(s) Instructions/Form
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By Phone: |
800.733.6786
812.336.7700
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We welcome and recommend substitutions for those who cannot attend. Substitutions may be made at any time prior to the event. If you send a substitute, please provide his or her name and send your request to registration@solution-tree.com. All cancellations must be in writing and sent to registration@solution-tree.com or Solution Tree, 555 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404. Cancellations more than 90 days prior require a $75 processing fee. Cancellations between 10 and 90 days require half of the registration fee. There are no refunds for cancellations less than 10 days prior. |
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By Fax: |
812.336.7790
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By Mail: |
Solution Tree
555 North Morton Street
Bloomington, IN 47404 |
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