1) Three key things that research tells us about learning are that no significant learning occurs without relationships, professional development is powerful, and standards are powerful. 2) If student achievement is to improve, schools must change the learning experience for adults through professional development, the classroom experience for students through instructional focus, and the feedback given to students through assessment focus. 3) Studies show that innovations which include strengthening formative assessment produce significant learning gains.

1. Raymond School DistrictTeaching and LearningHow Do We Know What They Know?

2. “A Global Vision”Three things Research Tells Us:

3. No significant learning occurs without significant relationships

4. Professional development is powerful

5. Standards are powerful

6. Teaching to standards

7. Assessing to Standards2Raymond School District

8. If we want student achievement to improve, what must we change?The adults’ learning experience-Time to ponder, plan and produceThe students’ classroom experience- Instructional Focus

9. The feedback we give students- Assessment Focus3Raymond School District

10. Instructional Focus In schools showing marked improvement in low-performing student achievement, providing constructivist learning opportunities was the onlymitigating factor.Duane Baker, 20034Raymond School District

11. What Supports Instructional Focus?Clear learning standards

12. Explicit teaching of standards

13. Transparent reporting of standards-based achievement

14. System designed to measure student growth, not sort5Raymond School District

15. Why clear standards?6Raymond School District

16. Who’s clear about the goal?7Raymond School District

17. Assessment“All of these studies show that innovations which include strengthening the practice of formative assessment produce significant, and often substantial, learning gains.”—Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam8Raymond School District

18. What Supports Good Assessment?Standards-based Assessment

19. Development of assessment tasks

20. Data analysis training

21. Coordinated assessment (classroom, school, state)9Raymond School District

22. Standards and Grades10Raymond School District

23. Standards and GradesWhat does a grade represent?11Raymond School District

24. Standards and GradesWhy do we grade?12Raymond School District

25. What’s in a grade?13Raymond School District

26. What’s in a grade?14Raymond School District

27. What’s in a grade?15Raymond School District