About the Authors |
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Foreword |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Getting Started as a Collaborative Team |
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The Big Ideas of a Professional Learning Community |
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The Role of Teams in a PLC |
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The Important Work of the Leadership Team |
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The Nuts and Bolts of Working as a Team |
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Norms for Working Together |
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Consensus-Building Strategies |
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Protocols and Processes for Doing the Work |
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Development of Purposeful Products |
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Chapter 2 Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments |
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Benefits of Common Assessments |
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A Comprehensive Assessment System |
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How to Set the Stage for Success |
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A Bridge Between Teaching and Learning |
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Chapter 3 Determining Priorities and Essential Standards |
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Understanding Essential Standards |
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Understanding the Need for Essential Standards |
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Moving From Individual to Team Decisions |
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Understanding the Process |
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Building Consensus as a Team |
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Considering Supporting Standards |
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Knowing Enough for the End-of-Year Test |
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Checking for Vertical Alignment |
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Using a Set of Essential Standards Chosen by the State or District |
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Providing Time for Teaching and Responding With Pacing Guides |
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Identifying Schoolwide or Districtwide Essential Standards--Which Is Preferable? |
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Using, Reviewing, and Rewriting |
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Chapter 4 Achieving Collective Clarity With the Unwrapping Process |
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Looking at the Structure of Your Standards |
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Choosing Standards to Unwrap |
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Getting Started as a Team |
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Asking, "Now What?" When Unwrapping Is Completed |
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Chapter 5 Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments |
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A Word About Validity and Reliability |
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Step One Decide What to Assess |
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Step Two Decide How to Assess |
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Step Three Develop the Assessment Plan |
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Step Four Determine the Timeline |
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Step Five Write the Assessment |
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Step Six Review the Assessment Before Administration |
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Step Seven Set Proficiency Criteria and Decide How to Gather the Data |
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Common Questions Regarding Assessment Design |
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How to Assess the Assessment |
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Lessons Learned From Remote Learning |
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Implications for Singleton Teams |
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Chapter 6 Going Deeper--Advanced Processes for Designing Assessments |
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Planning Assessment Within Backward-Designed Unit Planning |
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Creating Scaffolded Assessments |
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Using Proficiency Scales to Plan Assessments |
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Co-Creating Rubrics to Clarify Quality and Proficiency of Products |
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Chapter 7 Using Data to Make a Difference |
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Revisiting the Why of Common Assessments |
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Establishing a Team Culture for Using Data |
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Using a Protocol to Analyze Results |
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Finding Time to Respond to Data |
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Establishing Routines If a Team Doesn't Meet Right Away |
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Engaging as Singletons in This Process |
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Responding to Summative or End-of-Unit Assessments |
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Ensuring Team Members Are on the Same Page |
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Chapter 8 Building Student Self-Efficacy in Learning |
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Building a Student-Centered Culture |
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Having Students Answer Three Questions |
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Ensuring Students Know Where They Are Going |
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Engaging Students in Defining Quality Work |
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Letting Students Know Where They Are Right Now |
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Setting Goals to Close the Gap |
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Seeing Learning Through Student Eyes |
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Chapter 9 Strengthening and Sustaining the Work |
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Remain Focused on the Why |
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Reflect on All the Benefits of Using Common Formative Assessments |
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Provide or Seek Support for Teams |
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Build Capacity to Lead the Work |
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Remember That Experience Yields Efficiency |
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Be Attentive to Both Immediate and Systemic Learning |
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APPENDIX: Tools for Teams |
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Figure 1.2 Protocol for Identifying Norms |
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Figure 1.3 Team Meeting Agenda Template |
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Figure 1.4 SMART Goal Planning Tool |
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Figure 3.2 Protocol for Identifying Essential Standards |
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Figure 4.6 Protocol for Unwrapping a Standard |
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Figure 4.7 Unwrapping Template |
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Figure 5.2 Assessment-Planning Template |
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Figure 5.6 Common Formative Assessments Checklist |
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Figure 5.7 Sample Protocol for Developing an Assessment |
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Figure 6.1 Five-Step Team Unit-Planning Process |
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Figure 6.2 Workflow for Backward Unit Planning |
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Figure 6.11 Team Process for Developing Rubrics |
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Figure 7.5 Team Protocol for Analyzing Assessment Results |
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Figure 7.7 Vertical and Singleton Team Protocol for Analyzing Assessment Results |
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Figure 8.1 Sample Unit Overview Sheet |
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Figure 8.4 Student Goal-Setting Sheet |
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Figure 8.5 Planning Sheet for Goal-Setting Opportunities |
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References and Resources |
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Index |
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