Teacher Engagement Toolkit

Teacher Engagement Toolkit

Educators should be involved in the process of system-wide assessment strategy and decision-making. As worthwhile as engaging teachers is, it’s not easy. Many existing tools that support assessment strategy development or to evaluate assessment quality are simply not designed for the teacher who has the very full-time job of working with his students.

Together with our partners at ANet, we’ve adapted the assessment rubric used in Syracuse into a teacher-facing rubric we’re calling LASER: Local Assessment Screening Educator Rubrics.

The Teacher Engagement Toolkit contains resources that can be used as to help cohorts of Educator Reviewers understand how to review assessments with the LASER rubrics. For more information on the LASER rubrics and recommended review process, read phase 3 of the playbook, and the LASER rubrics themselves.

Teacher Engagement Toolkit: Developed by the Achievement Network and Education First, these tools will help school district leaders identify, recruit, train and prepare teachers and other instructional leaders to engage in an assessment review process.

• Local Assessment Screening Educator Rubrics (LASER): A simple, clear set of criteria for teachers to evaluate the quality and usefulness of district and school-level assessments with
• Rubric ratings guidance: Clear directions for how to accurately evaluate assessments on each aspect of the rubric.
• Annotated examples: Samples of completed rubrics and assessments to help teachers better understand the process.
• Assessment literacy modules: Developed by the United States Department of Education, the Assessment Design Toolkit modules help teachers build their capacity to understand high-quality assessment.

Once your district chooses how to most effectively engage local practitioners, use the tools here to support the training and development of an Educator Reviewer team.

Train Educator Reviewers on the LASER rubrics

The materials here include open source assessments and completed corresponding LASER rubrics with ratings and rationale for each rating. Use these to norm on ratings consistency. Rubric rating guidance is included in the LASER rubrics.

• LASER Rubrics

  Local Assessment Screener for Educator Reviewers (LASER) are based on the rubrics used in Syracuse to assess assessments. See below for examples.

Math

• Math Strong Assessment

  Sample Assessment
• Math Weak Assessment

  Sample Assessment
• Math Strong Example Rubric

  Completed Rubric and Rationale
• Math Weak Example Rubric

  Completed Rubric and Rationale

Please check back frequently as we’ll add to and update these resources during our work with districts.