ITERATIVE

The assessment is built into a continuous cycle of learning that offers insight and celebration as to the current milestone along a journey

  • there is never an arrival - rather learning is always continuing with key points along the way
  • this is the opposite of the notion of "coverage" of content - that we have [mastered] something 
  • asks that formative assessment and checks for understanding are valued in the same way (or even better - valued more) as cumulative or summative assessment

what MINDSET SHIFTS might be needed 

  • communities of learning that have a deep culture of reflection & revision
  • public proposals for ideas/projects/ experiments in order to identify pitfalls or blindspots and to call out the brilliance
  • using language like "resubmission, iteration, prototype, etc." 
  • asking learners to pause and assess where they, how they know where they are, and where they might want to go next 

What this could look like

  • removing the wall of completion- wide open, ongoing learning 
  • the value of process over product
  • any given assessment does not define the learner
  • a learner gets to decide when they are ready to move on to something new
  • revised work offers new evidence of learning, and can replace a previous piece of work (and associated grade)

how might this be liberatory?

SEE IT IN PRACTICE...

AUSTIN's BUTTERFLY
EL EDucation

To nurture academic excellence, and also to develop successful human beings who possess the passion and capacity to contribute to a better world?

This is EL Education’s vision for public school — a place where students of all backgrounds and identities have the power to exceed the highest standards — as scholars and as community members. The element of critique and revision, with high quality feedback is a core EL Practice.

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