Newsletter and a website that serve to connect educators interested
in quality assessment practices across the state, as well as innovative practices across the U.S.
By explicitly incorporating training and professional development that supports assessment literacy into state ESSA applications, states can enhance student learning by leveraging funds to develop assessment policies and systems that are in balance and
reflect quality assessment practices.
Kathryn (Kathy) Dewsbury - White serves as the president and CEO of the Michigan Assessment Consortium, a statewide non-profit education association organized to provide professional learning opportunities, develop resources and tools, and provide advocacy
for quality assessment practice and quality, comprehensive, and balanced assessment systems.
Without quality assessment practices that produce accurate data, we can't determine the strengths and needs of our students or how to differentiate in their learning; which schools are performing well and which need assistance; and what programs and
Together with her colleagues, she strives to implement a purpose - driven balanced assessment system and to help teachers use the information garnered through high -
quality assessment practices to improve instruction.
Carol Commodore, Ed.D., is a consultant and author whose work centers on balanced,
quality assessment practices, leadership, systems thinking, motivation, and creativity.
Quality assessment practices in a diverse society.