Assessing Student Learning to Ensure Robust Distance Learning and Mitigate. Learning Loss
a. The District will develop and schedule assessments to identify specific areas where instruction or intervention may be needed to improve student learning.
b. Certificated unit members will develop and implement a plan to meet the social–emotional needs of their student prior to administering an assessment. Examples include greetings and a warm-up game (with physical distancing) to ease anxiety, prior to asking students to demonstrate learning.
c. The District will provide interventions for students as necessary, and such interventions may include sessions with an intervention provider or specialist through video conference, scaffolding for specific task assignments, pre-highlighted texts, more frequent feedback or check-ins, time management supports, or maintaining a daily written agenda.
d. Certificated unit members will develop formative and progress monitoring assessments throughout their lessons and will provide actionable information about student’s learning status relative to the desired lesson goal. Certificated staff will use data from assessments to adjust their instruction and ensure student progress towards learning goals. Formative assessment examples may include collecting exit tickets through Google Classroom at the end of each class session, whether online or in person; using an opener to reinforce skills and check for understanding on concepts recently taught; giving students opportunities to share what is working and what is not working; or continuing to provide ample opportunity for discussion and meaningful content interaction with students through high-order thinking questions.
e. The District will provide and teachers will engage in professional learning for teachers on assessments.
f. Unit members will clearly establish learning goals and will explicitly communicate such goals to students. This may include providing students with an essential question or learning goal at the beginning of instruction, and frequently referring back to the question or goal. In the distance learning context, this can include prominently posting the learning goal or essential question on a teacher’s web page, asking students to keep a learning log to track their key learnings throughout a lesson or unit, or weekly check-ins that require students to respond to the essential question using information from the week’s lessons and activities.
g. Unit members will utilize Google Classroom and provide students with quiz-style assessments that th...
Assessing Student Learning to Ensure Robust Distance Learning and Mitigate. Learning Loss
a. The District will develop and schedule assessments to identify specific areas where instruction or intervention may be needed to improve student learning. The parties acknowledge that there is currently a dispute between them regarding student assessments this is being arbitrated. Without impacting either parties’ respective position in that arbitration, the parties agree that the District may proceed with its proposed assessments as provided by the District on August 29, 2020 (Appendix C) while in a distance learning model. This agreement does not prohibit any individual student assessment requested by a parent or an assessment specifically and unambiguously mandated by state or federal law.
b. Certificated unit members will develop and implement a plan to meet the social–emotional needs of their student prior to administering an assessment. Examples include greetings and a warm-up game (with physical distancing) to ease anxiety, prior to asking students to demonstrate learning.
c. The District will provide interventions for students as necessary, and such interventions may include sessions with an intervention provider or specialist through video conference, scaffolding for specific task assignments, pre-highlighted texts, more frequent feedback or check-ins, time management supports, or maintaining a daily written agenda.
d. Certificated unit members will develop formative and progress monitoring assessments throughout their lessons and will provide actionable information about student’s learning status relative to the desired lesson goal. Certificated staff will use data from assessments to adjust their instruction, identify those in need of further intervention and enrichment, and ensure student progress towards learning goals. Formative assessment examples may include collecting exit tickets through Google Classroom at the end of each class session, whether online or in person; using an opener to reinforce skills and check for understanding on concepts recently taught; giving students opportunities to share what is working and what is not working; or continuing to provide ample opportunity for discussion and meaningful content interaction with students through high-order thinking questions.
e. The District will provide and teachers will engage in professional learning for teachers on assessments.
f. Unit members will clearly establish learning goals and will explicitly communicate such goals to students. This may include providing st...
