Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

Materials, resources, tools & training providing effective, research-based instruction to develop all aspects of literacy for many kinds of students.
Frameworks like UbD and PBL have been instrumental in shifting ways in which we organically incorporate assessments and feedback.
I have been so angry about the head-long rush into untested and poorly-thought-out value-added accountability models […]
In my previous two posts on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” […]
I find it unbelievable that 20 years into the Standards movement you can count on one […]
Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in almost every conversation about assessment of long-term […]
Feedback is a word we use unthinkingly and inaccurately.  We smile at a student, say “good job!” […]