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PD PACK

STRATEGIC FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PD PACK

The test has left the building.


Unlock the power of teaching.
Based on the research of renowned education authority Dr. Dylan Wiliam and produced
by the Learning Sciences Dylan Wiliam Center, the Strategic Formative Assessment PD
Pack takes educators on a deep dive into formative assessment with high fidelity that
results in increased student achievement. It allows teachers to keep doing what they
already know works—without interrupting the learning to give a test.

This package of full-day workshops, delivered by certified Dylan Wiliam Center staff
developers, goes deep into the five key strategies of formative assessment and activates
the techniques teachers can use to help all students (not just the most confident and
articulate) think critically, preparing them to thrive in their future workplaces. Coaches
will learn to provide consistent and targeted feedback to support teachers as they assess
tasks and adapt instruction based on student evidence.

THIS PD PACK INCLUDES:


Workshop: Establishing Standards-Based Learning Intentions
& Success Criteria [Teachers]
Capacity: 50 Participants | Cost: $5,500

Workshop: Eliciting and Interpreting Evidence & Providing


Productive Feedback [Teachers]
Capacity: 50 Participants | Cost: $5,500

Workshop: Activating All Learners [Teachers]


Capacity: 50 Participants | Cost: $5,500

Coaching Days: Strategic Coaching [Coaches]


Capacity: 5 Participants | Cost: $4,500

LSI TrackerTM : 1-year school subscription license


Cost: $19.95 per person or $495 per building

Embedding Formative Assessment


One book per participant

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Recent research
indicates that with
classroom coaching,
professional development
implementation
rates rise from
10% to 95%.
Workshop: Establishing Standards-Based
Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
Teachers must be clear about where they are taking students in order to find out how
well they are learning. The first of three Strategic Formative Assessment modules for
teachers, this session focuses on how teachers establish clear learning intentions while
helping students understand the criteria for success. Participants will discover how to
create learning environments that produce successful, confident students and increased
achievement.

Capacity: 50 Participants | Duration: 1 Day

Audience What you’ll learn


• Teachers/Instructional Staff • How learning intentions and success criteria impact
• School Leaders student achievement
• The difference among learning intentions, context of
• District Administrators
learning, and success criteria
• Techniques to share learning intentions and success
criteria with students
• How the LSI Tracker enables teachers to plan lessons

Workshop: Activating All Learners


When students assess one another’s progress, it doesn’t just save work for teachers;
when implemented properly, students working together can substantially improve
learning. The final Strategic Formative Assessment module for teachers shows
participants how to facilitate active learning and support students on their journey to
critical thinking, increased rigor, and higher achievement. Teachers learn how to use
hinge questions, discussions, and activities not to catch students, but to diagnose and
determine next steps.
Capacity: 50 Participants | Duration: 1 Day

Audience What you’ll learn


• Teachers/Instructional Staff • Roles learners can play in improving the learning of
• School Leaders their peers

• District Administrators • Collaborative and cooperative techniques to improve


learning
• Techniques that allow students to become resources
for one another
• How to plan techniques and use data from the
LSI Tracker to activate students as owners of their
learning

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Workshop: Eliciting and Interpreting
Evidence & Providing Productive Feedback
To teach well, educators need to find out what students already know. In other
words, they must elicit evidence of learning. The second of three Strategic Formative
Assessment modules for teachers, this session provides tools to help teachers plan
techniques and hinge questions that engage students in productive intellectual
discussion. It also covers interpreting evidence, using it to adjust instruction, and
providing meaningful feedback that moves learners forward.

Capacity: 50 Participants | Duration: 1 Day

Audience What you’ll learn


• Teachers/Instructional Staff • The importance of planning for evidence of student
learning
• School Leaders
• District Administrators • How to leverage diagnostic questions, discussions, and
statements to elicit evidence of learning
• The purposes and characteristics of well-written hinge
questions
• How the LSI Tracker enables teachers to monitor student
performance-based evidence

Coaching Days: Coaching for Implementation


During these on-site coaching sessions, a certified Learning Sciences Dylan Wiliam
Center expert consultant facilitates classroom observation and feedback and/or
coaching to strengthen Strategic Formative Assessment implementation from teachers to
instructional learners to administrators. The coaching days are intended as a follow-up to
training in order to support instructional leaders as they provide feedback to teachers in
the implementation of strategies and techniques.

Capacity: 5 Participants | Duration: 1 Day Per Workshop

Audience What you’ll be able to do


• Teacher Mentors • Use a tool to observe teachers using Strategic Formative
• Instructional/Curriculum Assessment techniques to provide feedback for growth
Coaches • Develop a coaching approach to enhance implementation
• Building Administrators of Strategic Formative Assessment techniques

• Central Office Instructional/ • Support teachers as they analyze data from the
Curriculum Support LSI Tracker and LSI Standards Accelerator apps and adjust
instruction to meet the needs of students

Lifelong Learning for ALL Educators


EMBEDDING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Practical Techniques for K–12 Classrooms

by Dylan Wiliam & Siobhán Leahy


Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical
Techniques for K–12 Classrooms details how
effective classroom formative assessment helps
educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day
instructional decisions. This clear, practical guide
for teachers centers on five key instructional
strategies, along with an overview of each strategy
and practical formative assessment techniques for
implementing it in K–12 classrooms.

What you’ll discover

• Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and success criteria


• Engineering productive discussion and activities that elicit evidence of learning
• Providing feedback that moves learners forward
• Activating students as learning resources for each other
• Activating students as owners of their own learning

The authors Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy provide guidance on when and how to use the
specific techniques, along with tips, cautions, and enhancements to sustain formative assessment.

“Embedding Formative Assessment offers almost unlimited


potential for increasing student learning and achievement.”

—Jackie Walsh, educational consultant, co-author


of Quality Questioning

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Real-Time Student Performance Tracking Technology
The new LSI Tracker™ is a mobile-enabled application that empowers K–12 teachers to
quickly track student performance during a lesson. Its unique features allow educators to
see what is (or isn’t) working in their teaching so they can make real-time instructional
decisions that ensure that all students are meeting their learning targets each day.

• Generate lesson-specific class reports

• Add individualized comments about student scores

• Track student progress on multiple tasks and learning targets

• Create and manage student rosters and lessons

• Create a trend analysis or historical view of student progress

• Navigate prior lessons and revise assessments as needed

The LSI Tracker is easy to use, yet robust enough to produce rich reports about the
learning targets and evidences within each lesson. It uses data from multiple sources
to help teachers stay focused on standards-aligned instruction. They can even build
standards-driven performance scales and lesson plans and feed the outputs into the
LSI Tracker.

Lifelong Learning for ALL Educators


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Blairsville, PA 15717

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PD PACKS
We’ve packaged
together some of our
best and most effective
professional development
and technology to propel
schools toward their goal:
STUDENT SUCCESS

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