Visit the ASCD Web site (www.ascd.org) and click on About ASCD. Go to the section on Networks for information about professional educators who have formed groups around topics such as "Assessment for Learning." Look in the Network Directory for current facilitators' addresses and phone numbers.
Online Courses
Visit the ASCD Web site (www.ascd.org) for the following professional development opportunities:
- Designing Performance Assessments (#PD09OC30)
- Exemplary Assessment: Measurement That's Useful (#PD09OC31)
Print Products
- Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey (#107023)
- Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work by Robert J. Marzano (#106006)
- Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time by Jane Pollock (#107005)
- Educational Leadership, December 2007/January 2008: Informative Assessment (#108023)
- Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson (#106034)
- Exploring Formative Assessment (The Professional Learning Community Series) by Susan Brookhart (#109038)
- How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students by Susan M. Brookhart (#108019)
- Instruction That Measures Up: Successful Teaching in the Age of Accountability by W. James Popham (#108048)
- Making Standards Useful in the Classroom by Robert J. Marzano and Mark W. Haystead (#108006)
- Transformative Assessment by W. James Popham (#108018)
Video and DVD
- Formative Assessment in Content Areas Series (Three DVDs, each with a professional development program) (#609034)
- Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students DVD Series (Three DVDs, each with a professional development program) (#609035)
- The Power of Formative Assessment to Advance Learning (Three DVDs with a comprehensive user guide) (#608066)
The Whole Child Initiative helps schools and communities create learning environments that allow students to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. To learn more about other books and resources that relate to the whole child, visit
www.wholechildeducation.org.
For more information, visit us on the World Wide Web (http://www.ascd.org); send an e-mail message to
member@ascd.org; call the ASCD Service Center (1-800-933-ASCD or 703-578-9600, then press 2); send a fax to 703-575-5400; or write to Information Services, ASCD, 1703 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311-1714 USA.