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Formative Assessment Team Members

 * Trixie Brooks - Executive Director of Instruction - Team Leader
 * Wanda Bullard - Director of Accountability
 * Dana Bowden - Instructional Specialist
 * Marsha Abbott - Director of Technology
 * Patrick Sutton - EC Specialist
 * Pam Bello - Director of CTE
 * Kim Meza - Director of ESL

Falcon Modules
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 * Importance of Formative Assessment
 * Communicate the importance of formative assessment,
 * Distinguish between formative, benchmark, and summative assessment, and
 * Share with others how formative assessment fits into a balanced assessment system.
 * Learning Targets and Criteria for Success
 * Recognize clear and unclear learning targets, and
 * Develop clear learning targets and their associated criteria for success to use in a lesson or series of lessons.
 * Collecting and Documenting Evidence
 * Identify at least three ways to collect and document evidence of student learning,
 * Choose strategies for collecting and documenting evidence of student learning that provide accurate information about where students are in their learning, and
 * Align the strategies with the targets and criteria for success.
 * Analyzing Data and Descriptive Feedback
 * Effectively examine student work,
 * Understand the differences between evaluative and descriptive feedback, and
 * Enhance student learning through descriptive feedback.
 * Administrator's Role in Formative Assessment
 * Describe formative assessment and how an administrator can use it in his or her school,
 * Discuss elements of formative assessment, and
 * Determine the extend to which a school implements formative assessment.