Past WERA workshops & materials:
WERA/OSPI Washington State Assessment Conference: “Assessing What We Value – Valuing What We Assess”, December 8-9, 2011
Conference Presentations and Final Program available
WERA June Workshop- “Identification of Academically Gifted Students: Current Practices and Challenges”, June 22, 2011
Presenter: Dr. David Lohman WERA workshop on gifted identification
Final Program
available from the workshop
WERA Spring Conference - "Brain Rules - Implications for Educators,” April 22, 2011
Dr. John Medina handout available click here
Symposium on the New State Accountability Index workshop
Presented by: Pete Bylsma, Director, Assessment and Student Information, Renton School District - January 28, 2011
Final Program
available from the workshop click
here
WERA/OSPI State Assessment Conference "Assessment in Support of Teaching and Learning" December 8-10, 2010
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click
here
WERA Spring Conference - "Aiming High to Close the Gap", March 24-25, 2010
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here
WERA/OSPI State Assessment Conference "Students First in a Brave New World" December 9-11, 2009
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click
here
Dylan Wiliam Formative Assessment workshop on June 25, 2009
PowerPoint presentation
available from the workshop click
here
WERA Spring Conference "Between the Bookends:
Connecting standards-based instruction to the research on
assessment"
Conference Presentations and Final Program
available click
here
WERA/OSPI Assessment Conference "Assessment
Dynamics for Dynamic Learning"
Conference Presentations and Final Program available
click
here
WERA Spring 2008 Conference “Leaders,
Learners, and Change Agents”
Conference Presentations and Final Program available
click
here
The 23rd Annual WERA/OSPI Washington State Assessment
Conference “Testing Assumptions " December 5-7,
2007
Conference Presentations and Final Program available
click
here
WERA Spring Conference "Making the Grade -
Gathering and Reporting Evidence of Student Learning"
March 28-30, 2007
Conference Presentations and Final Program
available click
here
WERA/OSPI Assessment Conference "Preparing ALL
Students for the 21st Century" December 6-8, 2006
Conference Presentations and Final Program
available click
here
PowerPoint of Playing Cards (education quotes) available
click
here
WERA OSPI Symposium "Achieving Growth Models"
June 2, 2006 - Puget Sound ESD
Keynote
Address: Growth Models for Monitoring Schools - Pete Goldschmidt,
UCLA/CRESST
What
We Gain From Growth Models - Pete Goldschmidt
Policymaker's
Guide to Growth Models for School Accountability: How do
Accountability Models Differ? - Goldschmidt, et al.
Measuring
Student Academic Growth: Recent Seattle Experience - Mike
O'Connell, Seattle Public Schools
Application
of Growth and Value-Added Models to WASL - Joe Wilhoft,
OSPI
Drawbacks
of Vertical Scales - William D. Schafer, University of Maryland
Reflections
on Using Northwest Evaluation Association's Scale - Phil
Dommes, North Thurston School District
Spring 2006 WERN Forum - High School Reform:
Introduction
/ The High Schools We Need
Gates
Foundation projects
High
School improvement projects
Career
and technical education
Spring 2006 WERA Conference:
Conference
Program
Ann
Conzemius PowerPoint warning, large
file!
Winter 2005 WERA Conference:
Michael
Fullen's web site
Conference
Program
At the 2005 winter conference's annual Praeger's
Follies, participants were challenged to rewrite Bob Dylan's
"The Times They are a Changing" with lyrics relevant to
education these days. Click here
to hear Nancy Steer's winning entry as performed by her
son Hunter. Click here
for the lyrics to Nancy's song.
Spring 2005 WERA Conference:
Dr.
Larry Cuban's Keynote Presentation - "The Politics
of Doing School Reform Daily"
Dr.
Cuban's Policy Logic Models
