Resources to Support Your Leadership of Assessment Change
Consider the essential conditions for leading successful assessment change in your organization
Leading any change initiative is a complex task. There are so many conditions to consider that it can be quite overwhelming when first starting out. The Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions (essentialconditions.ca) is a popular tool that helps to simplify the planning process. Leaders can be confident that they have designed a change initiative as efficiently and effectively as possible.
To help instructional leadership teams design assessment-focused professional learning, AAC has adapted the essential conditions guide.
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The Leading Assessment Change: Where Do We Start resource shares a number of helpful tips and resources to help build leadership capacity.
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Developing an Assessment Leadership Stance
Have you ever considered your Assessment Leadership Stance?
Skybound Coaching and Training defines a leadership stance as the way your identity as a leader is perceived. They go on to suggest the importance of being intentional about your leadership stance can directly impact the success of your leadership endeavours. The Enablers for Developing your Assessment Leadership is a self reflection tool for leaders who are interested in improving the effectiveness in leading Assessment Change
Creating a Positive Assessment Culture
The concept of assessment is often misunderstood in the education system and by the stakeholders connected with it. Whether it’s a misunderstanding of the types of assessment, the purpose of each type or misconceptions of the principles of fair assessment, leaders need to recognize these issues and address them. AAC recommends turning to the experts for guidance. The best-selling book “Creating Cultures of Thinking: 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools,” authored by Ron Ritchhart, has provided a clear framework for changing our school and classroom culture. AAC has adapted the 8 cultural forces to suit the goal of creating a positive assessment culture.
Providing Deep Professional Learning Plans
Modelling the use of the AAC Key Visual is a great way to assist teachers in the assessment planning process. AAC has adapted the AAC KEY VISUAL tool to support instructional leaders who are designing a professional learning program. Just like teachers, instructional leaders need to plan professional learning with the end in mind, provide multiple opportunities for teachers to engage in the feedback and practice formative assessment cycle, and use the data collected from the teacher’s learning process to inform the next steps in professional development.
