Craft Category: Artifacts

Musicals/Plays Tracker

This musicals/plays tracker allows a user to document which shows they have seen. By using Google Sheets’ formulas, a data sheet can be built to provide a summary of the data.

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November 17, 2021

Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation

A significant movement is underway across the nation to design K-12 assessment systems that better equip stakeholders to provide an equitable and excellent education to each child.

While some of these innovations emerged before the pandemic, the massive disruption to instruction fueled a new urgency to rethink the potential of assessments to drive better teaching and learning. States and communities are working together to create more balanced systems of assessment that better support instruction while still providing the information necessary to inform policy and resource decisions.

There is much to learn from the ideas emerging across the nation – particularly where states are trying to innovate despite limitations of federal policy. The insights and innovations emerging from this work have the potential to cast a new vision for K-12 assessment in this country.

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November 8, 2021

Report: Learning Found, Not Lost – Examining Learner Growth and Supports in LUSD During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis

To examine the impact of COVID-19 school closures on their own learners, Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA) to design a mixed-methods study using quantitative data captured from benchmark assessments in reading and math as well as qualitative information from a focus group with school counselors. This report presents the findings from that analysis. View the executive summary of this report.

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November 7, 2021

Literature Review: Helping Each Learner in the Here and Now: Strategies for Addressing Unfinished Learning

This literature review serves as the contextual foundation for a broader examination of learner progress during COVID-19 closures. First, it paints a picture of the COVID-19 research landscape and describes the three major analytical “camps” or research viewpoints. Then, it summarizes key findings across studies before finally describing recommendations for addressing unfinished learning. This document ultimately serves two purposes: to provide an analysis of national data and to inform a study of unfinished learning in Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD).

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November 7, 2021
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