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FEA Online Learning Suite
Assessment Literacy and the Designing Learning Experiences
Power of Formative Assessment for Remote and Blended Learning
This course which was co-developed by FEA We’ve learned so much! This timely course
and ETS consists of five Assessment Literacy is designed to bring you from research to
modules that are intended to help teachers practice, providing practical information, skills,
develop and deepen their assessment literacy and strategies and tools, and helping you design and
understanding of the components of a balanced implement digital learning for blended and remote
assessment system. experiences.
Each module uses a combination of readings, While the future of education is unpredictable, we
case studies, and discussion questions. We hope know that preparing to move between the remote
that teachers will be able to work with colleagues and blended learning landscape is essential.
in their schools, in a learning community, or in a This course will give you the tools, research and
department- or grade-level team to talk about strategies to prepare for either learning landscape
reactions to the activities; however, we also to ensure that students are learning.
provide additional resources in the appendices for
independent use if collaboration is not available.
Fighting Racial Slurs and
Other Common Acts of
Culturally Responsive Practices Student Aggression
and Leadership American society has become increasingly more
Culturally Responsive Practices requires educators violent as rules of civility and mutual respect are
to recognize and redress traditional psycho-social treated as signs of weakness. Unbridled expressions
barriers to learning, barriers that have impeded of racial violence and political polarization places
the emergence of Black and Brown students as those in historically targeted populations at even
independent learners. In pursuing this journey, greater risk than ever before. This course discusses
they emerge as culturally literate practitioners and how race-based bullying is deeply grained in a
allies who are better able to close the learning discriminatory cultural narrative and what constructive
gaps currently supported by status-quo instruction behaviors can be taken to disrupt its expression in our
and leadership. In recognition of the complexity schools.
of having race talks, we are excited to extend the
learning by offering a 90 minute, synchronous
session, led by course instructor Dr. Robin Harden Implementing the Professional
Daniels.($125. Estimated 5.5 hours, including Standards for Educational Leaders
synchronous component) Through an Equity Lens
During this course, the learner will be given
the opportunity to explore how two central
office administrators, from separate districts,
(a superintendent and a director of curriculum)
implement the Professional Standards for
Educational Leaders (PSEL) in order to strengthen
instructional leadership within their district to guide
district/school improvement.
In addition to learning about examples aligned to
each standard, participants will spend some time
unpacking the standards, learning about the PSEL
Reflection and Growth Tool, and examining the
AntiRacist Continuum.
