Discover how to become instructionally agile—moving seamlessly among instruction, formative assessment, and feedback—to enhance student engagement, proficiency, and ownership of learning.
- Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of essential assessment framework.
- Learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in K–12 classrooms.
- Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.
- Consider examples of instructional agility in action.
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TABLE OF 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: Viewing Instructional Agility in the Broader Context
Appendix: Instructional Agility Manifesto
- Action Research Form to Monitor Effectiveness of Quality Questions
- Action Research Form to Monitor Effectiveness of Quality Tasks
- Teacher Tracking Form for Monitoring Student Engagement and Comprehension
- Hinge Question Template
- Questions to Elicit Evidence of Student Learning
- Reciprocal-Questioning Chart
- T-Chart Reflection
- Types of Questions to Promote Dialogue
- Frequency Recording Observation Form
- Interval Recording Observation Form
- Understanding a Student’s Learning Tells
- Instructional Agility Implementation Rubric
- Instructional Agility: What It Is and What It Is Not
- Open Spaces: Professional Learning and Dialogue
- Taking Inventory of Instructional Agility Context and Practice
- Team Response to Assessment Evidence
- Erkens, C., Schimmer, T., & Vagle, N. D. (2017). Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Guskey, T. R. (2015). On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Reeves, D. (2016). Elements of Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Schimmer, T. (2016). Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Schimmer, T., Hillman, G., & Stalets, A. (in press). Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.