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by Jana Bennett
Do you and your team of educators distinguish between assessments for learning and assessments of learning? If so, how does each assessment type help you evaluate the impact of teaching and learning?
by Jana Bennett
As a reading director or reading educator, you know that learning to read is one of the most vital components of success in your students’ early academic years and throughout their entire lives.
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Because numeracy skills are so imperative to learn in the first few years of a child’s schooling, early assessment is pivotal in grades K-1. We know that acquiring a sense of numbers and numeracy skills is essential to a child’s later understanding and performance in mathematics and critical thinking. But how do we go about accurately assessing such early skills?
by Jana Bennett
Throughout the past year, new requirements from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSERS) have been placed on your school's Individualized Education Programs (IEP). IEP goals must align with grade-level content standards for all children with disabilities - helping make certain that students with learning differences are prepared for college and career.1
by Jana Bennett
Students have diverse and varying learning needs, and it’s the implementation of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), which includes the response to intervention (RTI) process, that helps educators identify struggling students early and provide the appropriate level of support.
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