An assessment FOR learning used to advance and not merely monitor each student's learning. Checking for understanding is one example.
What is formative assessment?
100
Goals that are strategic, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and timebound.
What are smart goals?
100
A group of people working together interdependently to achieve a common goal for which members are held mutually accountable.
What is a team?
100
Someone with expertise in a specialized field. Someone who not only pursued advanced training to enter the field, but who is also expected to remain current in its evolving knowledge base.
What is a professional?
100
The year our current building opened.
What is the fall of 1970?
200
An assessment OF learning designed to provide a final measurement that determines if learning goals have been met.
What is summative assessment?
200
The knowledge, skills, and dispositions that have endurance and leverage, and are essential in preparing students for readiness at the next level. They are the big ideas we want out students to learn.
What are power standards?
200
A systematic process in which people work together, interdependently, to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve individual and collective results.
What is collaboration?
200
The acquisition of new knowledge or skills through on-going action and curiosity.
What is learning?
200
The street that the "old Lincoln" school faced.
What is 5th Avenue?
300
An assessment that requires students to demonstrate learning through something that you can watch them do.
What is performance-based assessment?
300
Goals that can be met. They are perceived as attainable by those who set them.
What are attainable goals?
300
In PLC's, these are the commitments, or rules, developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are team norms?
300
A group linked by common interests. An organization is linked by structure, but this term suggests shared purpose and mutual cooperation.
What is a community?
300
The state Lincoln was born in.
What is Kentucky?
400
An assessment of student learning that uses the same instrument (or test) utilizing the same criteria for determining the quality of student work.
What is common assessment?
400
The critical skills, knowledge, and dispositions each student must acquire as a result of each course, grade level, and unit of instruction. Sometimes referred to as essential outcomes or power standards.
What is the essential learning?
400
In a PLC, collaboration focuses on these "quad very important inquires" of learning.
What are the "four critical questions" of collaborative teams?
400
The fundamental purpose of an organization. It helps to answer the question, "Why do we exist?"
What is mission?
400
He was principal at the opening of the "new Lincoln."
Who was Arlon Parkin?
500
An assessment typically created collaboratively by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level or course. They are used frequently to determine how well students are progressing, how well teaching strategies are working, curriculum concerns, and for improvement goals.
What is a common formative assessment?
500
Measurable milestones that can be used to assess progress in advancing toward a vision. They help to answer the question, "What results do we seek, and how will we know we are making progress?"
What are goals?
500
The process of building shared knowledge by clarifying the questions that a group will explore together.
What is collective inquiry?
500
A realistic, credible, attractive future for an organization. It helps to answer the question, "What do we want to become in the future?"