Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The more formative assessment data a teacher collects, the more effective they’ll be in differentiating learning experiences to meet a diverse group of students’ needs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. Image credit: Thorndike Press Books that are easier to read create a virtuous cycle in which students are not as tense about reading, so they read more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I also revisit insights from my second book, Reinventing Writing , and discuss how Id update it to address todays challenges with AI, attribution, and the importance of nourishing student creativity. Use code COOLCATTEACHER for 3 months of Premium Book Creator FREE to help your students create and publish their own work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

There is one bright spot in this story: Online books. Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Kids can even watch book trailers before making a selection.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ongoing assessment is necessary for student success. These assessments provide data on our learners’ progress and knowledge of the content. Below is a list of free web tools and apps to quickly assess your students on a regular basis. Formative Assessment Tools and Apps. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Batsheva's book, The Jewish Educator's Companion is available at Amazon.com. The post 10 amazing assessment ideas appeared first on Ditch That Textbook. Batsheva has been in education for over 25 years and is the producer and host of the popular podcast, Overthrowing Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 11, 2022

My goal is to read books for an hour each night. In this episode, I wanted to share some of the books that have me thinking this summer. It is a wide assortment of books that I've linked to at the bottom of the show. Episode 787 My Favorite Books of Summer 2022 Vicki Davis, @coolcatteacher - Your Show Host.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. Once these are in place, you devise the assessments — formative and summative — that will provide the evidence of achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2019

If teachers assess their students’ knowledge before diving into an explanation, lesson, or unit, they might be surprised by the wealth of experience and information that students bring into the classroom. If you have a strategy you use for assessing prior knowledge, please post a comment and share it! Carousel Brainstorm.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This week we look at Formative Assessment, how it works and why it can be a powerful tool no matter what your teaching and learning looks like. Traditionally, teaching has been a one-way enterprise with the teacher dispelling knowledge for a period of time and then assessing what the students know either through a quiz or test.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Printed books: Students copied from the World Book Encyclopedia. Formative Assessment Checks at the Beginning of Class Thankfully, to open class, we did a series of rapid-fire coding activities inside Juicemind where the students had to write code. Without a book. Formative Assessment is in. It's between the ears.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Designing instructionally useful assessments does not have to be difficult.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , Daniel Pink points out that extrinsic rewards–points, grades, or the promise of a class party for good behavior–are not effective ways to motivate people over time. Then they enter the points or grades into their online grade books.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With a few simple inputs—such as your lesson objectives or key topics—these AI platforms can rapidly generate tailored suggestions for activities, assessments, multimedia resources, and reading materials. These digital books integrate with AI platforms like ClassSwift , letting teachers activate interactive features with just a click.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Both the math and reading sessions focused on how edtech could be used during independent work, formative assessment, and pedagogically-sound blended learning. Below you will see the specific tools I provided during each session. Some aren't new, but others might be. Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section below.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our decisions need to focus on helping students by designing assessments and ways to show what they have learned while also promoting voice and choice in learning. Consider how the method or tool will enhance learning or provide more benefits for students beyond being a way to practice the content or take an assessment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We wrote the books. In this three-week course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. We take POs, PayPal, or we’ll invoice you.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I gave points for completing annotations, bringing books to class, and completing homework. By the end of the semester, I had over a hundred assignments in my grade book. Too often students are penalized for making mistakes on assignments that are designed to help them develop and refine their skills before an assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I teamed up with Dr. Katie Novak to write a follow-up to our book UDL and Blended Learning. In our second book, UDL and Blended Learning 2: Shifting to Sustainable Student-led Workflows (coming out in spring 2022), we tackle 10 unsustainable teacher-led workflows.

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Melissa & Lori Love Literacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In this post, were sharing 3 awesome books to support academic talk in your lessons. Youll find research on why these conversations matter, tips for classroom management, ready-to-use lesson activities, ideas for various content areas, and tools for assessment (including checklists, which we love!). Hi Teacher Friend!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2023

This lesson plan (#103 in the lesson plan book noted below) includes three pages. Page 2 is an assessment you can either print out and have students fill in or push out to students to be completed online. Learning computers starts in kindergarten with understanding hardware.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Douglas Fisher, co-author of the best-selling book Rebound, Grades K-12: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. 4 Key Factors for Fantastic Formative Assessment. He is the co-author of The Distance Learning Playbook, along with several other books. Twitter: @DFISHERSDSU.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

One of the features that was needed was the ability to schedule and also to time the whole worksheet (or “test” if you choose to give summative assessments in Wizer.) But when we went to distance learning and teachers were struggling to make “packets” easier and to digitize almost everything that Wizer.me came to mind.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2021

There are many different pathways to accomplish this goal that I discuss in detail in the book. While the elements above are undoubtedly essential, it should be noted that not every lesson, assignment, or assessment will include all of these. Pedagogical leadership can pave the way.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective. Click To Tweet.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. Those unrealistic workflows almost drove me out of education. That’s why the theme of balance has permeated my work for years.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment by collecting these two weeks into the future. If a teacher is struggling with their assessments, don't just say you need to work on building better ones. Either provide an example that you have created or co-create an assessment together.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Designing Blended Learning for Student Engagement and Achievement “By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement meaningful blended learning experiences with objective-aligned assessments and activities that foster core 21st-century skills.” Check out the course 17.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Not only will this save teachers time, but it will engage students in the valuable process of looking through their notes and materials to identify important concepts, strategies, processes, and skills they believe they will need to know to perform successfully on an assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We need to build in mechanisms into our lessons to collect formative assessment data. In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. Polling is a quick way to assess what your students think about a topic, vocabulary word, or problem. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This book was inspired by the following… I want students to develop confidence in themselves and their abilities. However, it was not until I changed the way I approached feedback, assessment, and parent communication that I had an epiphany. I wrote this book primarily for secondary teachers. I certainly didn’t.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Pre-tests are quick ways to assess ability levels. Epic is also a favorite way to read books online. Some of these may interface directly with your learning management system, so you can import student rosters, assign, and gather assessment data seamlessly. Educators familiar with Google may use Google Forms for this purpose.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2022

And such we must do as James Arthur Sherman's book Rejection said. Take a look at what your third grade unit of instruction is that's coming up and identify what are those skills and concepts that students are going to need right now in order to access that and assess based on that. Department of Education. Where are my students at?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Just like the transfer of information can create barriers, so can our strategies for measuring learning and assessing understanding. The variability among learners demands flexibility in our design and assessment of learning. Teachers want all students to be successful. Teachers want all students to be successful.

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