Podcast appearances and mentions of rick stiggins

This is a good time of year to take a look at assessments. How can students help us improve the process? Follow: @mattwachel @ASCD @bamradionetwork Rick Stiggins is author of The Perfect Assessment System (ASCD) and the founder and retired president of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), a professional-development company created and designed to provide teachers, school leaders, policymakers, and communities with the assessment literacy they need to face today's assessment challenges. Host and ASCD Emerging Leader Matt Wachel is an elementary assistant principal in the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO

Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment.Interview Notes, Resources, & LinksPurchase Rick's book Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom AssessmentVisit Rick's WebsiteListen to Rick's Principal Center Radio interview on The Perfect Assessment SystemAbout Rick StigginsRick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning and several other books. Dr. Stiggins is one of the profession's leading authorities on assessment.

Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Perfect Assessment System. Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Rick's book The Perfect Assessment System Visit Rick's Website About Rick Stiggins Rick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning.The post Rick Stiggins—The Perfect Assessment System appeared first on The Principal Center.

Rick Stiggins joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book The Perfect Assessment System.Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Rick's book The Perfect Assessment System Visit Rick's WebsiteAbout Rick StigginsRick Stiggins, PhD is founder of the Assessment Training Institute and the author of Assessment for Learning.

Part 1 The Salem Public Library hosted educational discussions with Rick Stiggins and other educators. Topics include Assessment strategies, common core standards, and what our schools would look like if schools focused on learning. Part 2 Deanne interviews Bonnie O'Hern, who shares her expertise as a school nurse in Oregon and other states.

Formative Framework of Teaching and Learning; Formative Instructional Practices Live in the Big Three; A Balance Assessment System; The Big Question; Robert Marzano; Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black; The Big Three FIP Buckets; Seven Strategies of Formative Assessment; Professional Learning Teams; Rick Stiggins; Unpacking The Standards/Goals...Why?

Free Kindle!, (please Jack and/or Jeff!), Free iTunes (U), and Free Second Life! News & Events 1. Start planning for October's Month of the Young Adolescent! 2. Ohio Middle School Association's Annual Conference, February 19-20, 2009 in Sandusky, OH. 3. Institute for Middle Level Leadership. July 20-23 4. Best Practices for Student Success. July 28 & August 6 5. NMSA Annual Conference, October 30 - November 1 (Video sample) 6. Summer Teacher-to-Teacher professional development program registration is open. (free) 7. Canadian National Middle Years Conference, November 5, 6, & 7 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 8. Rick Stiggins has a new Balanced Assessment Manifesto posted at NMSA's website. 9. NMSA is looking for a new journal editor. Applications due August 1, 2008. 10. Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Elections are posted: PRESIDENT-ELECT: Alice Seppanen TREASURER: Charlene Pike Suzanne Lappin, Member-At-Large Nic Cooper, Region 2 David Feldman, Region 4 Mary Ann Schmedlen, Region 8 Sherry Lambertson, Region 11 David Baldus, Region 12 Joe Somerville, Region 13 11. Looking for news from Ontario Middle Level Educators Association. If you have any, drop us a line. 12. Wisconsin Association of Middle Level Educators annual conference is coming up October 9-10, 2008. 13. The New England League of Middle Schools has a whole bevy of professional development planned for the 2008-2009 school year and you can access it here. 14. ADVISORY IDEAS NEEDED: NELMS is putting together an Advisory Resource page with lessons for you to use. They are asking for submissions here by January 1, 2009. If your entry is used, you will be entered in a raffle for a 3 day NELMS conference ticket. 15. Second Life Education Community Conference (SLEDcc) Announcement: (From the webpage...) "The Second Life Education Community Conference 2008 will take place in conjunction with the Official Second Life Community Convention 2008 in Tampa, Florida (US) and in the virtual world of Second Life on September 5 - 7th, 2008. All members of the Second Life educational community and anyone with an interest in the use of virtual worlds technology in education is invited to attend! Please note: Registration fees cover both the SLEDcc and SLCC events! Conference registration and fees only apply to those going to SLEDcc/SLCC in Tampa, in-world only participants do not need to register or pay any fees." Here's your chance to attend a free conference during the first week of school. The conference schedule can be found here. Shout outs: 1. Jeff Bezos, we'd love to put a free Kindle through its paces at NMSA '08 ... 2. Ron in New Jersey, thanks for the email. 3. The lake trout at 140 feet down who saw my lure at 100 feet down and took it last week, you were delicious ... 4. Our international friends - even the Spammers! Copyright Fight looms over College Textbooks http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54684;_hbguid=1a943a6a-3bb8-4f98-9bd7-ab945e14b76c The high cost of college textbooks has spawned a new battleground in the fight to keep students from downloading copyright-protected materials over the internet: textbook file sharing. Court upholds Teacher firing for looking at porn http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54693;_hbguid=80f259df-0ff1-423f-8e9c-c0b047174269 iTunesU (K-12)