Balanced Assessment: Why It Works + How to Build It

Learn how to design a K-12 balanced assessment system that works for teachers and students. Join our expert webinar to explore framework strategies, implementation steps, and real-world success stories. Register today!

Location

Virtual event

Date

Time

5:00pm EST

In the reality of K-12 education, a truly balanced assessment system can be a bit of a unicorn. But it shouldn’t be. How can district leaders design and implement an assessment system that really works for teachers, admins, and students?

In this webinar, you’ll hear from assessment and accountability experts who explore some of your most asked questions when it comes to designing assessments to drive student outcomes:

What steps can a district take to start building a balanced assessment system that supports student learning?

What does a district-wide balanced assessment strategy look like in practice? What are the hallmarks of a strong framework?

How have districts overcome some of the challenges educators face when implementing balanced assessment?

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Speakers

Carlo Schmidt

Director of Product at Newsela

Carlo leads product development for Formative, Newsela’s assessment and instruction product. He began his career in assessment in the KIPP Network of charter schools, where he worked with school leaders across multiple networks on the systems they used implementing a balanced assessment system and ensuring that educators had access to the data they needed. After KIPP, he jumped into the edtech world to work with districts like DPSK12 and Fulton County on their implementation of assessment products. He eventually made is way in to product out of a desire to build better and better tools that support students, teachers, and admins and providing actionable, real time, insights to all.

Scott Marion

Scott Marion, Ph.D., is a principal learning associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. He is a national leader in conceptualizing and designing innovative and balanced assessment systems to support instructional and other critical uses. He has also led extensive work across the country to design and implement school accountability systems.