Monica Burns - #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology

#FormativeTech is an incredible guide and resource for teachers whoare integrating technology into their classrooms. Teachers will find usefulinformation about assessing students successfully with technology and usingthis data for student success. They will also discover resources forensuring students are learning at their best with the technology.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell, International Speaker and
Author of The30 Goals Challenge for Teachers

This book is a great resource for all teachers. Assessment can often be seenas a four-letter-word, but Monica Burns reminds us that if done well, it canbe a tool for better supporting student learning and creating studentempowerment. #FormativeTech is approachable and full of use it onMonday ideas. I cant wait to share this with my colleagues!

Jennie Magiera, Educator and Author of CourageousEdventures
Chief Technology Officer for Des PlainesSchool District 62
Chicago, IL

Monica Burns is savvy about teaching, assessment, and how technology enhancesboth. Her deep expertise on the subject and knowledge of formativeassessment researchthrough a personable, no-nonsense voicemakes her theperfect guide through these absorbing tools, tips, and anecdotes. The ideasfrom this super-inspiring author are ones youll return to often.

Todd Finley, Editorial Assistant and Blogger
Edutopia
Greenville, NC

There is no better time than now to bring together the powerful learningforces of technology integration and formative assessment. This is showcasedbeautifully through the writing of Monica Burns in a way that is meaningful,sustainable, and scalable for teachers and leaders. This book is an idealread for educators looking to grow more agile in their use of data toindividualize and personalize instruction.

Robert Dillon, Director of InnovativeLearning
School District of University City
University City,MO

As someone whos been involved in many mobile device initiatives in schools,Ive seen first-hand the power devices have in informing instruction whencoupled with meaningful formative assessment. In #FormativeTech,Monica Burns does an amazing job, not only of delving into the technologypart of formative assessment, but also into the research behind what canmake it most effective for learning. This book is full of tools, strategies,and lesson ideas that you can use in your classroom right away to helpinform learning and make it meaningful, sustainable, and scalable.

Carl Hooker, Director of Innovation and DigitalLearning
Eanes Independent School District
Austin, TX

Since NCLB came into play, data has been driving instruction whether or notthe teachers were able to best determine how to calculate and apply the datain real time. Often this is due to the fact that the data teachers receiveis not real-time data, but rather data from the prior year that istechnically out-of-date for the specific student. The other reason is simplybecause undergraduate classes simply do not teach how to figure the typesand calculations of data that would be applicable in different situations,along with what to do with the data to improve student performance. Teachersareand historically have beenexcellent at gathering, recording, andreporting data; however that has often been the extent of their involvementwith it. This book will be the ticket to board the train that gets teachersto understand progress monitoring and calculating growth, as well as what todo with the information once they have it.

Pamela L. Opel, Special Education InstructionalSpecialist, 612
Gulfport School District
Gulfport, MS

Teachers often recognize the need for formative assessment but dont haveenough tricks in their bags to properly employ on a routine basis.Combining formative assessment with technology can help teachers expandtheir repertoire while also simplifying data collection and analysis.

Christine Landwehrle, K12 Director ofCurriculum
School Administrative Unit 39
Amherst, NH

To my sister, for whose strength and guidance I am forever grateful.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Burns, Monica, 1986- author.

Title: #FormativeTech : meaningful, sustainable, and scalable formativeassessment with technology / Monica Burns; foreword by Reshan Richards.

Other titles: Pound sign FormativeTech | FormativeTech

Description: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, 2017. | Includesbibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016047020 | ISBN 9781506361901 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational evaluationTechnological innovations. |Educational tests and measurementsTechnological innovations. |StudentsRating ofTechnological innovations.

Classification: LCC LB2822.75 .B89 2017 | DDC 371.260285dc23 LC recordavailable at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047020

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Approximately 7 years into my educational career as a middle school math teacher,I reached a point of being able to articulate my frustrations with the ways thatschools measured mathematical understanding possessed by students and how manyeducators, and the global public, perceived assessment of learning ingeneral.