9 formative assessment strategies that will help teachers assess student learning as well as promote student communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. Ideas sourced from ASCD annual conference presentation.

This resource shares a variety of Academic English linguistic frames and words to be used by both students and teachers.

Christine D'Aquanni with Be GLAD® presented strategies at ASCD Annual Conference 2021 in a session called Be GLAD®: Strategies for Creating a Community of Collaborative Learners.  The Narrative Input Chart is one strategy for making content comprehensible, particularly to support English Learners reading to understand sequence of events with key details. These slides were created as just one resource to support a reading of The Water Princess by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds. 

This information was gathered while attending a break-out session at the 2021 ASCD Annual Conference. Dr. Teresa Hill presented this information based on her analysis of student-teacher and student-student interactions after they resumed in-person learning. She is currently the Superintendent of South Holland District 151 in South Holland, IL.

I first heard of Jigsaw lessons through a ASCD conference session by Audrey Cohan, Andrea Honigsfeld, and Maria Dove. This type of collaborative work seemed perfect for my 4th grade English Learners and I’ve based this lesson off of that concept using a nonfiction article by Scholastic.

Henry Winkler is a well-known American actor and has appeared in multiple tv shows, but he is also an accomplished author and motivational speaker. He delivered a general session presentation at the 2021 ASCD Annual Conference in which he shared some anecdotes from his past and provided many inspirational quotes to encourage educators to find greatness within our students.