Assessments should deliver actionable information to both teacher and student, and traditional formats such as short-answer responses or multiple-choice questions may be limited in their capacity to do so. Performance-based assessments, on the contrary, require increased intellectual engagement and ensure that students must demonstrate their ability to apply their knowledge and skills. Further, they offer an opportunity to measure various competencies and student’s transferability of learning. In this workshop, learn design principles and gain practical implementation strategies for performance assessments to apply in your classroom no matter the grade or subject!
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Lindsay Prendergast, M.Ed. currently serves as a School Improvement Coach with NWEA and a Framework Specialist with The Danielson Group. Lindsay is an ASCD Emerging Leader. She recently concluded five years as the Principal of an international school in the Dominican Republic and has worked as a Special Education Teacher and Administrator for the past seventeen years. Throughout her career, Lindsay has designed and delivered professional development in English and Spanish for educators around the world on various topics including curriculum development, assessment, and grading practices. She has authored informational and research articles for ASCD, Curriculum Insight, InterEd, Scope Education, and several other education publications on various topics. Lindsay is also a team member and leader of school engagement review teams for Cognia (formerly AdvancED) and is a Fellow with the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE).
Abigail French is an accomplished presenter, an online instructional coach and mentor, an educational course designer, and a sixth-grade teacher at Peter Muhlenberg Middle School in Woodstock, Virginia. She is currently celebrating year twelve in her teaching career, with Shenandoah CountyPublic Schools.
In addition to teaching, Abby partners with VaLIN and VaSCL to lead schools in implementing performance assessments through the Virginia Assessment Collaborative, as an innovation and social studies content coach. In September 2020, Abby was selected as a Class of 2020 ASCD Emerging
Leader.
Through her involvement as a board member with UnisonEDU, a non-profit organization, Abby works to provide equitable professional development to schools. She also advocates for public education and better working conditions for teachers and students as an officer with the Shenandoah County Education Association. Outside of school, Abby enjoys spending as much time as possible with her family, preferably outdoors.
Can’t make the live event, then register for On-Demand that will be available from January 21 – March 31, 2022.
COST
NHASCD member: $35 per person
Non-member: $45 per person
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Register for the Live Webinar (January 26, 2022, from 4:30 – 6:00 PM EDT)
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the On-Demand Opportunity (available January 27, 2022 – March 27, 2022).
Do you want your students and teachers to think deeper and construct the meaning of concepts and content in their own meaningful ways? In this session, be prepared to investigate the power of inquiry cycles and how inquiry-based learning experiences create such rich learning. Be prepared to participate in thought-provoking, inquiry-based learning experiences that are useful for students at any grade level, or for teachers in their faculty meetings or professional learning sessions. The interactions will center around the use of visible thinking practices, questioning, and will provide opportunities to see how to extend learning in so many ways, allowing for the engagement of all learners.
About the presenter
Tammy Musiowsky-Borneman is a teacher coach, education consultant, and international education adviser who has experience teaching and leading in Singapore, New York City, and Edmonton, Canada. Selected as an ASCD Emerging Leader in 2014, she remains active with ASCD serving as a board member of the ASCD Emerging Leaders Alumni Affiliate. Her first book, The Minimalist Teacher, co-written with colleague C.Y. Arnold was released in June and will be available on the ASCD website. She has written several guest blogs for ASCD Inservice, Express, EdWeek Teacher blog, and more. Topics include student engagement, professional learning communities, and creating a strong culture of learning. Connect with her on social media @TMus_Ed or contact her by email at info@tmused.com.
Fee:
NHASCD Members: $35
Non-Members: $45
We know that job-embedded learning and peer collaboration is high-yield for teachers, but what opportunities do instructional leaders get to experience these same elements that are critical to professional growth?
Join the co-authors of “Principal Labs” in this three-part series. Principals, coaches, and instructional leaders will learn how to plan for professional learning that builds understanding, collaboration, and systems for supporting classroom instruction and, ultimately, student outcomes.
Your registration includes
– three live virtual sessions with the authors
– a copy of the book
– a free collaborative space in the NHASCD Professional Learning Community.All sessions will be recorded. If you can’t make a session, we’ve got you covered!
Session 1: In this session, participants will focus on the what and the why of job-embedded learning labs for leaders.
Session 2: Participants will explore a variety of reasons leadership teams may want to come together and will learn about how to tailor labs to meet these needs.
Session 3: In this session, participants will think together about the logistics of creating their own labs as well as how to lay the groundwork for collaborative, job-embedded professional learning that you can seed now and cultivate throughout the labs you facilitate.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Megan Kortlandt is a Literacy consultant with Oakland Schools, an Intermediate School District in Michigan that serves public schools across one of Michigan’s largest counties. She has taught in middle and high school classrooms in a variety of settings and now focuses primarily on supporting instructional leadership. When she’s not teaching or facilitating professional learning, chances are good Megan is writing about it. She has previously been published in NCTE’s Journal Voices from the Middle, the Michigan Reading Journal, and she is a contributing writer for Moving Writers. You can find her on Twitter @megankortlandt.
Carly Stone is the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the Brandon School District in Michigan. With sixteen years of experience in education, she has previously worked as a math and science teacher, a building administrator for both middle and high schools, and as a K-12 Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for one of the largest public school districts in Michigan. She finds tremendous enjoyment working directly with building principals through coaching and designing professional learning intentionally designed to meet leaders’ professional goals for themselves, the schools in which they work, the teachers they support, and the students that they serve. You can find her on Twitter @CarlyStone_PL.
Samantha Keesling, Ed.S. is a Mathematics consultant in the Leadership and Continuous Improvement unit at Oakland Schools, an Intermediate School District in Michigan that serves public schools across one of Michigan’s largest counties. In addition to consulting in math and working with students and teachers in the classroom, she has facilitated over 200 job-embedded learning labs for teachers and administrators. In her role at Oakland Schools, Samantha works with Megan to coordinate the Job-Embedded Professional Learning Network, which supports instructional leaders across the region in studying, designing, and facilitating professional learning. You can find her on Twitter @Keesling_Math
Fees: NHASCD Member – $95.00, Non-Member – $125
To grow as a leader, take time to reflect and understand what makes you uniquely able to help the people you serve. Join Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista and peers from across New Hampshire on a guided journey to define leadership for yourself.
In three sessions, over three weeks, you will explore your leadership philosophy and develop your personal plan so you and your community can thrive and rise to your great challenges.
This ASCD-Affiliate exclusive professional learning opportunity is designed for leaders at the district, building, and classroom levels.
The three-session online professional learning experience will help you develop your customized personal leadership philosophy.
Our focus:
- What is my leadership style?
- How do I craft my very own personalized leadership philosophy (PLP)?
- What are my next steps for implementing my PLP?
Your $75.00 registration includes:
- Three live virtual sessions with the authors
- A copy of the book
- A free collaborative space in the ASCD Professional Learning Community
- The opportunity to meet the authors in person at ASCD’s Annual Conference in Chicago
Note: This professional learning event is open to educators worldwide. You do not have to be an ASCD Affiliate member to register.
Register Today!
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To grow as a leader, take time to reflect and understand what makes you uniquely able to help the people you serve. Join Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista and peers from across New Hampshire on a guided journey to define leadership for yourself.
In three sessions, over three weeks, you will explore your leadership philosophy and develop your personal plan so you and your community can thrive and rise to your great challenges.
This ASCD-Affiliate exclusive professional learning opportunity is designed for leaders at the district, building, and classroom levels.
The three-session online professional learning experience will help you develop your customized personal leadership philosophy.
Our focus:
- What is my leadership style?
- How do I craft my very own personalized leadership philosophy (PLP)?
- What are my next steps for implementing my PLP?
Your $75.00 registration includes:
- Three live virtual sessions with the authors
- A copy of the book
- A free collaborative space in the ASCD Professional Learning Community
- The opportunity to meet the authors in person at ASCD’s Annual Conference in Chicago
Note: This professional learning event is open to educators worldwide. You do not have to be an ASCD Affiliate member to register.
Register Today!
Download the Flyer
To grow as a leader, take time to reflect and understand what makes you uniquely able to help the people you serve. Join Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista and peers from across New Hampshire on a guided journey to define leadership for yourself.
In three sessions, over three weeks, you will explore your leadership philosophy and develop your personal plan so you and your community can thrive and rise to your great challenges.
This ASCD-Affiliate exclusive professional learning opportunity is designed for leaders at the district, building, and classroom levels.
The three-session online professional learning experience will help you develop your customized personal leadership philosophy.
Our focus:
- What is my leadership style?
- How do I craft my very own personalized leadership philosophy (PLP)?
- What are my next steps for implementing my PLP?
Your $75.00 registration includes:
- Three live virtual sessions with the authors
- A copy of the book
- A free collaborative space in the ASCD Professional Learning Community
- The opportunity to meet the authors in person at ASCD’s Annual Conference in Chicago
Note: This professional learning event is open to educators worldwide. You do not have to be an ASCD Affiliate member to register.
Register Today!
Download the Flyer
Students Who Struggle Still Belong: Leveraging Our Collaborative Efforts to Support the Needs of Behaviorally Dysregulated Students to Ensure They Feel Safe and Connected to their School Community.
Helping children with challenging behaviors to reach their potential and have a sense of belonging requires a community of caring in which everyone works together. Join your colleagues at this day-long conference to find out how you can make a difference and gain practical and effective ideas and strategies.
There are breakout sessions for district and building administrators, general and special education teachers, counselors, paraprofessionals, school psychologists, and social workers facilitated by Polly Bath, Michael McSheehan, and Emily Read Daniels.
What does it mean to be a leader? Is it being in charge or is it being responsible for those in your charge?
Your skills, knowledge, and experience are important when it comes to leading a district, school, team, or class. But whether interacting with staff, students, or parents, leaders also need empathy—a key social-emotional skill—to be effective and drive continuous improvement.
Discover how to grow your own empathy, as well as that of others, and the enormous positive effect this can have.. Explore how to view differences of opinion as opportunities to learn. And learn how empathy can help you:
- Build strong relationships.
- Better connect with students’ parents.
- Reduce conflict by eliminating problems before they get out of hand.
- Model and pursue the crucial issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Improve instructional leadership.
Throughout the session, we will share strategies and engage in collegiality as we will learn with and from one another. By the end of the session, you will have a plan to lead with empathy.
Join former principal, author, and consultant Tom Hoerr at the Primex Training Center in Concord, NH on October 18th for this interactive and engaging presentation.
Click on the image below to hear an invitation from Tom!
A copy of Tom’s book “The Principal As Chief Empathy Officer” is included in your registration fee.
About our Speaker
Thomas R. Hoerr, Ph.D. retired after leading the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri for 34 years and is now the Emeritus Head of School. He is currently a Scholar In Residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and teaches in the Educational Leadership program, preparing prospective principals. He also led the ISACS New Heads Network and founded the Non-Profit Management Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Hoerr has written five books, and his newest, Taking Social Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, was published in December of 2019. He has written more than 150 articles, including “The Principal Connection” column in Educational Leadership Magazine from 2004 to 2017.
Who should attend: Building and District Administrators, Aspiring Administrators, Team and Department Leaders, Classroom Teachers, and Others in Leadership Positions.
Registration Fee: NHASCD and/or NHASP Member – $325
Non-Member – $375
What works best in teaching and learning? What approaches, interventions and strategies accelerate learning in your school or classroom? The answer to these two driving questions resulted in the creation of the Visible Learning database almost 30 years ago, providing a robust collection of what has the potential to accelerate student learning. However, the major message from what is now approximately 2,000 meta-analyses, from over 100,000 studies, with 273,000 effects and 320 influences, and includes over 300,000,000 students is:
What are the Seven Factors For Success? They are seven areas that must be engaged to ensure successful coaching.
Without purposeful development and support in all seven areas, your coaching program, whether formal or informal at this point, will not meet its maximum potential, educators will become discouraged, and those who are the most vulnerable—your students— will suffer the most loss.
Join Jim Knight at this NHASCD/NHASP sponsored conference for Instructional coaches, peer coaches, building and district administrators, and classroom teachers, all of whom will benefit from this day-long conference.
Registration Fee:
NHASCD and/or NHASP Member: $425
Non-Member: $475
Every fifth registrant from the same district is FREE
Receive a copy of The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success with your registration