The Principal as Assessment Leader
The Principal as Assessment Leader explores the importance of effective classroom assessment to student achievement and the role of school leaders to model and spark positive change through building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more. With insights from expert practitioners, this book offers to help schools make the shift to best-practice assessment for districtwide improvements in student learning.
Key Benefits
- Gain insights from multiple expert practitioners on shifting to best-practice assessment.
- Understand the critical role of school leaders in modeling and sparking positive change in assessment practices.
- Learn strategies for building teacher literacy and providing targeted professional development.
- Explore the use of digital tools for data collection and find meaning in the numbers to improve teacher practices.
- Discover a seven-module plan for creating a balanced assessment system within a school or district.
- Implement standards-based reporting and credit-recovery systems to lower student failure rates and improve overall learning outcomes.
- Examine the impact of positive assessment relationships on student success.