Looking at Student Work:Lens, Layers and Learning

Michelle Swanson

Swanson & Cosgrave Consulting

July, 2010 NAF Summer Institute

michelle@swansonandcosgrave.com

Agenda

Questions for our session?• What is LASW strategy and what is the

rationale for using it?• What practices and protocols can we

use with our colleagues?• What implications are there for using

student work to guide some instructional decisions?

Agenda (format)

• Quick review and stories from Project Zero’s Steve Seidel

• Introduction of the Collaborative Assessment Conference protocol applied to the work of a DECA research project

• Practice of the protocol applied to DECA marketing video project

• Conversation about implications, opportunities, connections, Q&A

Conceptual Framework

• Process began by Steve Seidel at Project Zero as the teacher equivalent to medical rounds.

• Steve, Tina Blythe and the other Zeros created the Collaborative Assessment Conference as a construct for the work.

• Rounds happen the first Saturday of each month. 30-80 teachers show up, one or two share work, everyone leaves energized.

Why was the Collaborative Assessment Protocol process

developed?

How does the protocol work?

• Select a piece of work • Group describes work in detail • Group speculates on what students are

working on, thinking about• Group asks questions• Presenting teacher responds• Implications for teaching and learning

discussed

Our Presenting Teacher

• Deb Moore

• Raymond S. Kellis HS

• Glendale, Arizona

• Project One: Act Out Loud Video

• Project Two: Sports and Entertainment Marketing Research

Examining the Work

• We’ll play the video two times.• Take notes on anything that strikes you--

what do you notice, what do you see, what do you wonder?

• Be prepared to share your observations, questions, speculations

• Five minutes to discuss with neighbor and be ready to engage in protocol

Examining Project 2

• Take 10 minutes to read a selection from a Kellis HS school project

• Mark up the text with observations, wonderings, same as last time.

• Turn to partner and share findings

• Be prepared to share your thinking.

DECA Research Project

So What? Who Cares?

Based on our work today…• What is valuable about this strategy and

protocol?• How might you use this strategy in your

own work?• How might you use this in your school

or academy?

ResourcesFor more information:

National School Reform Faculty sitehttp://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/

learning_from_student_work.html

Project Zero at Harvard University http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/Rounds.htm

What Kids Can Do: Fires in the Mindwww.wkcd.org