Moving from a pilot project to outcomes-based assessment for grades 9-11 at UAMA

Teachers and school leaders at Brooklyn's Urban Assembly High School of Music and Art spent a day reflecting on the pilot implementation of EASE and planning for the coming year's implementation. Two teachers who have worked with the EASL approach reviewed their experiences during the spring term and the effect on their teaching The agenda included a review of learning targets, which gave teachers a chance to evaluate and critique some samples from other schools.  They worked together in discipline teams to begin to think about the learning targets they would use with their classes in the fall. 

Over the several years that practitioners have been implementing the EASL approach to assessment, they have developed a number of planning guides, templates, and other tools to support their work in teaching and learning in the classroom.  Some of these guides can be used with content area or departmental teams in the work of articulating outcomes and scope and sequence.

Here are several samples: