New Canaan Public Schools
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- New Canaan Public Schools
- Protocols and Strategies
- Looking at Student Work: LASW
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Looking at Student Work: LASW
Facilitators: Gene Thompson-Grove, Co-Director, National School Reform Faculty
Bob Mackin, LEAD NE
David Allen, National School Reform FacultyEssential Questions:- Why look at student work collaboratively?
- How can examining students' work collaboratively improve the teaching and learning in a school?
- What conditions and resources are necessary so that educators can regularly examine students' work collaboratively?
- students' work in schools is serious work;
- students' work is key data about the life of the school;
- the work of children and adults in school should be public.
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Collaborative Assessment Conference (CAC)
Used to look closely at and interpret students' work; to explore the strengths and needs of a particular student; and to reflect on the work collected in student portfolios. In addition, the CAC fosters conversations among faculty about the work students are doing and how to support that work. -
Consultancy
A structured process for helping an individual or a team think more expansively about a particular, concrete dilemma. -
Tuning Protocol
Used to look at particular teacher or school-created projects and assessments in order to improve them.