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Looking Beyond the Easy Meaurements

We will always find what we look for. 
How can you not applaud the efforts of a school which looks at how students are doing and puts specific actions into place to help students?  This RTI school has done just that.  Who wouldn’t suppose that as they focus more clearly on specific measures they will improve [...]

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Now this is assessment.

How do you know when science has happened?  Ask Doyle.
“A child muttered in class this week that she keeps knowing less than she thought she knew.
Success.”
The dismantling, disintegrating, demolishing, disassembling, trashing, throwing away, rooting out of misconceptions is hard work for teachers and students.
Seeing things that did not exist moments before is why I got [...]

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