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Guidelines for RSW include the organization of teams and selection of student work samples, guidelines for discussion and how to document reviews.


Participant Roles explains the roles of faculty, principals, facilitators, coaches and district staff.


Note-taking form is used by individual teachers prior to a review


Documentation form helps teams track the evolution of the review process as well as the content of discussions over time.


Team planning guide is used by interdisciplinary teams of teachers to plan the focus and schedule of reviews.

Activity for setting review goals involves the entire school, or groups of faculty, to determine priorities for student learning.


Sample review Understand the process of reviewing student work by reading student work and excerpts from a review.


Links to Related Sites
  • Wallace Foundation

    http://wallacefunds.org

    On January 11, 2000, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund announced that they have combined resources and staffs and will operate as the Wallace -Reader's Digest Funds. These funds support a variety of projects including AED's Reviewing Student Work, as well as the CES and HPZ projects described below. This site describes the Funds' history and current priorities.

  • Improving Instruction Through Inquiry and Collaboration

    Coalition of Essential Schools

    http://www.essentialschools.org/

    The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is a school reform network of nearly 1000 schools and 24 regional centers around the country and abroad whose work is coordinated by a national office in Oakland, California. A school joins the Coalition when it has committed itself to improve student achievement by redesigning the school according to a set of ideas put forth by Theodore R. Sizer in Horace's Compromise (1984). The CES site includes a description of IITIC(Improving Instruction Through Inquiry and Collaboration), a project of the Wallace - Reader's Digest Funds that focuses on reviewing student work. The site also includes the IITIC TOOLBOX, practical tools generated by IITIC participants.

  • Harvard Project Zero

    The Evidence Project

    http://pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Evidence.htm

    Harvard Project Zero (HPZ), a research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, investigates the development of learning processes in children, adults, and organizations to help create communities of reflective, independent learners; to enhance deep understanding within disciplines; and to promote critical and creative thinking. Harvard's Project Zero site includes a description of The Evidence Project, supported by the Wallace - Reader's Digest Funds, which is working in a small number of Massachusetts schools serving youth from low-income communities, to develop effective methods of assessing instructional practices in K-8 classrooms. Project Zero's goals include designing protocols for conducting conversations about student work as evidence of student learning and analyzing that work for what it reveals about the effectiveness of instructional practices.

 

  • Annenburg Institute for School Reform

    http://www.aisr.brown.edu and http://wwwlasw.org

    The mission of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform is to develop, share, and act on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving underserved children. Established at Brown University in 1993, the Institute operates as an affiliated program within the University. The site contains a comprehensive section entitled "Looking at Student Work" which includes review protocols, samples of student work, sample teacher discussions of student work, and resources.