Unlike standardized assessments that tell us what students learned at the end of instruction, formative assessments give teachers information about students’ learning progress during the learning cycle while the teacher and student still have time to take corrective action.  A lot has been written...

“Our teachers are meeting in PLCs but we aren’t seeing any real changes in classroom practices.” Sound familiar?  This is a consistent theme we hear in our work with schools who are implementing PLCs. In other words, they are discovering that giving teachers’ time to meet in “learning communities”...