Deeper Learning New York

Teacher evaluation is widely regarded as a compliance exercise and contributed little to teaching and learning. Kim has pioneered a more promising approach: short, frequent, systematic classroom visits always followed by a face-to-face conversation with the teacher, using a rubric at the end of the school year to sum up these conversations and other points of contact. Kim is also piloting an AI tool that deftly summarizes these conversations, building co-ownership and saving paperwork. This approach promises to affirm what's going well in classrooms and continuously improve day-to-day teaching and learning.

Kim publishes the weekly Marshall Memo, summarizing ideas and research from 60+ publications. This workshop will take you inside the sausage factory and suggest five ways you can use the Marshall Memo as professional development for yourself and to promote positive change among your colleagues. Kim will provide a complimentary subscription to the Memo for attendees.

In a world of AI, what should assessment and instruction look like? Are isolated academic skills as valuable as the learning outcomes in the NY Portrait of a Graduate? How do we move beyond compliance in our schools to an environment that truly promotes the student learning that matters?
Join us as we move from story to application around these critical questions. We’ll ground ourselves in a case study of Tech Valley High School, examining assessment artifacts and frameworks to think critically together about what strong assessment for learning looks like.