Bryan Adams Performance Assessment Design

11/9 Workshop: Journey to Success

1. Agenda
2. Workshop Slides
3. Journey to Success Handout
4. Visible Thinking Routines and Activities
5. Performance Assessment Rubric
6. PA Feedback Form

Documents from our 10/19 Workshop

1. Workshop Slides 10/19
2. Performance Assessment Planning Template (pdf), (doc)
3. Performance Assessment Rubric

Yvonne’s Journey

• Video: Yvonne’s Defense
• Snapshot of Yvonne’s Portfolio
• A Defended Artifact: Yvonne’s Project Truth Research Paper
• Suzanne Malek’s Project Truth Performance Assessment

More Examples of Performance Assessments

• Inferno Literary Analysis (pdf) (doc) (ELA)
• Campaign Rhetoric (Gov/ELA)
• Stopping Distance (Math)
• Frida Kahlo Self Portrait (Art)
• Net Primary Productivity Inquiry Lab (Science)
• Campaign Ad Tipping Point (Social Studies)
  • Student Work
• Cross-disciplinary: BP Gulf Oil Spill: Who Is to Blame?
  • Student work from science component: Example 1, Example 2

Other resources you might find helpful or interesting

1. Designing a Standards-Aligned Performance Assessment System (chapter 2 from Transforming Schools by Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston)
2. Reading: Assessment Methods—A Menu of Options (by Rick Stiggins)
3. Reading: Learning Targets and Criteria for Success

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Background: Envision Education

The mission of Envision Education is to transform the lives of students—especially those who will be the first in their family to attend college—by preparing them for success in college and in life.

Brief Video Overview of Envision

Envision Schools: Over the last decade, Envision has garnered national recognition for its three charter high schools in the Bay Area of California: City Arts & Technology High School, Envision Academy of Arts & Technology, and Impact Academy of Arts & Technology. Envision Schools employ proven high school redesign practices in an innovative model that emphasizes project-based learning, deeper learning (aka 21st Century) skills, arts and technology integration, and workplace learning. Student success at Envision Schools is based on a unique and innovative deeper learning student assessment system, aligned to both the Common Core and deeper learning skills that culminates in a student defense akin to a dissertation defense. To graduate, Envision students are required to defend a portfolio of college-ready work that is certified by teachers based on rubrics validated by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE).

Envision Learning Partners: In 2010, Envision Education launched Envision Learning Partners (ELP) to spread its learning and impact to interested schools and districts across the country. ELP partners with K-12 schools and districts nationwide to collaboratively design and implement the Envision Schools Transformation Model or requested components of it. Currently, ELP’s impact reaches over 1,000 teachers and leaders from over 100 schools of all types (e.g., public, independent, charter) and at all levels (elementary, middle, and high schools) in 7 states. Read more . . .

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