Designing a Common “Record of College Readiness Evidence” for Integrating Performance Assessment Evidence into College Applications: A Partnership of Reimagining College Access and Envision Learning Partners The Reimagining College Access initiative is a national effort, led by the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel, to advance the use of high-quality performance assessments completed by secondary students […]
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Resource Corner: Performance Assessment in College Admission: Designing an Effective and Equitable Process
The Reimagining College Access initiative recently released a guidance document, authored by Aneesha Badrinarayan, aimed at colleges interested in integrating performance assessments into their college admission systems: Performance Assessment in College Admission: Designing an Effective and Equitable Process. Although the tool is designed for admission officers, it can also be used by K–12 educators to gain […]
Resource Corner: Bellwether Education Partners, a Pragmatic Playbook for Impact
Envision Education has long been proud that we not only serve students directly through our Bay Area schools but also commit to serving public school students everywhere through our consulting division, Envision Learning Partners. Our understanding of our past and potential future is even clearer now, thanks to A Pragmatic Playbook for Impact: Direct, Widespread, […]
Resource Corner: Modernizing Mathematics
This resource comes from the 2022 Deeper Learning Conference and is a conversation about modernizing mathematics: perspectives from the classroom and beyond. This panel discussion explores the topic of mathematics teaching and learning in the current age and for the future. ELP Director of STEM Learning, Vinci Daro, is one of the four amazing panelists.
Resource Corner: Growing Student Language in Math Class
This resource was developed for math teachers looking for a pathway into developing Student language (disciplinary language, English language, and academic language). It serves as an invitation to be intentionally experimental with three processes that students experience often in school, but not as often in math class: students revising their work and their thinking; students interpreting […]
Resource Corner: Lesson Observation Tools
These three observation tools are intended to support ‘minimal-prep’ lesson observation in classrooms where student ideas, language, and interaction are at the center of the learning process. They were specifically designed for mathematics classrooms, but may also be useful in other contexts. The two Lesson Observation Tools are meant as note catchers and as a […]
Resource Corner: 2021 Assessment for Learning Conference Reflection, Resources & Recordings
Whew! The Assessment for Learning Conference, AFL 2021, just wrapped- and yet it feels like a new beginning. Given the ‘needs of now,’ this conference experience stretched from a January launch and call to action- to a May culminating event and provoking of the system. Along the way, we tested new ways to collide ideas, […]
Resource Corner: Measures of SEL
Can we develop valid, instructionally useful, educative, and equitable ways to measure social-emotional learning? ELP’s Director of Research and Innovation, Ruth Chung Wei, had the opportunity to direct a research study with a team at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity (SCALE) and ELP called “Measures of Social-Emotional Learning.” The Executive Summary of […]
Defending Learning in Math Twitter Chat Resources
ELP’s Director of STEM, Vinci Daro, was joined by prior Deeper Learning Coach and math enthusiast, Jim Malamut, for our second Twitter Chat. Q1: WHY MIGHT SCHOOLS WANT TO DO DEFENSES OF LEARNING IN MATH? WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS? Vinci- A1: Defenses put students in charge of what they defend – their own way […]
Resource Corner: Virtual Portfolio Defense Tools
The ELP Deeper Learning Coaches have been hard at work developing practical resources for the performance assessment community since the Virtual Defense Toolkit was first in early April. Here’s a window into the latest! Click the image below to check out the new resource website and download all the new tools! Return to All Blogs
