Leading Assessment Change
Resources to Support Your Leadership of Assessment Change
Essential conditions for successful implementation of your Assessment PD Plan
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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CASS Spring Conference 2023 Self Reflection, Feedback and Diagnostic Tools for Guiding the Development of Future Assessment PD
Resources for Designing and Leading Assessment PD
Using the AAC Key Visual can aid teachers in assessment planning, and it has also been adapted for instructional leaders designing professional learning programs. Instructional leaders should plan with the end in mind, offer multiple opportunities for feedback and practice, and use data to inform future professional development.
AAC Key Visual PD Planning Tool
The planning tool is based on a number of guiding documents such as:
- The Alberta Assessment Key Visual For Effective Classroom Assessment
- A Guide To Comprehensive PD Planning
- A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions
- Leadership Quality Standard
- Superintendent Leadership Quality Standard
Creating 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
Assessment is a critical aspect of education, but it’s often misunderstood by those involved in the education system. There are several common misunderstandings,
- such as confusion about the different types of assessments and their purposes
- misconceptions about fair assessment principles.
As a result, leaders in education must recognize these issues and take action to address them. The Alberta Assessment Consortium (AAC) suggests seeking guidance from experts, such as the author of the best-selling book “Creating Cultures of Thinking: 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools,” Ron Ritchhart. This book offers a clear framework for changing school and classroom culture.
AAC has adapted the 8 cultural forces to specifically target the goal of creating a positive assessment culture. By implementing this framework, education leaders can help create a culture where assessment is viewed as an opportunity for growth and improvement, rather than a source of stress and confusion.
Resources for Leading PD on the Assessment of New Curriculum
The 6-Step Process to Align Assessment with New Curriculum
The Slide Deck on the right is to lead a workshop on aligning assessment with new curriculum. This workshop can be used to guide administrators, instructional coaches and teachers to effectively plan their unit assessments using the new curriculum outcomes.
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Articulating Criteria for New Curriculum Workshop
(Updated 2023-02-15)
This new session was launched at the Alberta Teacher Conventions in 2023. We are very pleased with the feedback, and hope you will find the slide deck useful when leading your own PD on creating success criteria for new curriculum
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