The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered student growth, social development, emotional well-being, future preparedness, and overall behavior. In addition to a slow academic recovery, myriad students are exhibiting behaviors often associated with learning disabilities. The question is whether students’ experiences reflect temporary setbacks or learning needs requiring long-term specialized support.
Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like?
While the required implementation of the Science of Reading (SOR) appears to be a phenomenon that has swept across state legislatures in recent years, the truth is that it has been a “culmination of decades of research into literacy,” according to Dr. Roland Good, a leading literacy expert who is also Co-founder of Acadience Learning and an original author of the DIBELS early literacy assessment.
Presented by Nicole Dimich, Educator, Author, and Associate, Solution Tree; Cassandra Erkens, Education Author and Associate, Solution Tree; and Tom Schimmer, Education Author, Speaker, and Associate, Solution Tree
Presented by Jacqueline Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer, National Center for Learning Disabilities; Bonnie Contreras, Senior Director Clinical Solution Engineering, Presence; and Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
Moderated by Kara Arundel, Senior Reporter, K-12 Dive
Presented by Carla Evans, Ph.D., Senior Associate, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment; and Scott Marion, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
Presented by Dr. Roland Good, Co-Founder, Acadience Learning; Jason Borges, Executive Director, NYC Public Schools Literacy Collaborative; O’Kiyyah Lyons-Lucas, Principal, Powell Elementary School (DC); Alisa Dorman, President, Acadience Learning; and Jermal Riggins, Literacy Advisor, Wilson Language Training
Presented by Kristina Smekens, President and Lead Consultant, Smekens Education Solutions
Moderated by Didi Harris, Literacy Consultant, Smekens Education Solutions
Presented by Leah Zimmermann, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Iowa; and Carolyn Brown, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa, and Co-Founder of Foundations in Learning
Moderated by Angelia Hoyer, Partner Success and Professional Development Lead, WordFlight
Presented by Kelly A. Powell-Smith, Ph.D., NCSP, Professor of Reading Science, Mount St. Joseph University