Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Learn to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Ownership of Learning)

The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student learning. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively than traditional methods. Instructional agility enhances ownership of learning, proficiency, and motivation for students, and promotes a positive school culture. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that assist readers in determining next steps for supporting the whole child and the whole learning process.

Learn how to promote an agile culture of learning in school to increase student ownership of learning:

• Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of the essential assessment framework.
• Learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in schools.
• Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.
• Examine examples of instructional agility in action.
• Consider questions that help individual teachers and learning teams contemplate what they learned and their next steps for implementing for instructional agility strategies.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Establishing a Culture of Learning
Chapter 2: Engineering Engaging Conversations
Chapter 3: Questioning
Chapter 4: Observing
Chapter 5: Mobilizing
Chapter 6: Practicing
Chapter 7: Fostering a Culture of Instructional Agility
References and Resources

• Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom (Deepen Teachers Understanding of Assessment to Meet Standards and Generate a Culture of Learning)
• Design in Five: Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
• Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods)
• Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset (How to Give Students Full Credit for Their Knowledge)
• Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving from Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning)
• Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works
• 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success
• Simplifying Common Assessment: A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work -How Teachers Can Develop Effective and Efficient Assessments - ... develop effective and efficient assessments
• Visible Learning: Feedback
• Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teams Can Use Assessment Data Effectively and Efficiently)