must smoothly guide students through their learning and engage them so their confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant. To achieve this, author Katie White presents practices for designing, delivering, and differentiating instruction and assessment to address teachers’ and students’ intellectual, physical, emotional, and social needs. When teachers develop effective assessments that consider the whole person, they support all aspects of students’ growth and their own experiences as teachers.
—NICOLE DIMICH VAGLE Educator and Author Minnetonka, Minnesota “While accounting for the importance of data collection, Katie White makes room for a more compassionate view of assessment— one that accounts for the lived experiences of students as well as teachers. She explains how to create softer-edged yet academically rigorous assessments that return the focus of school to where it belongs: the curious, creative, vulnerable human beings who are learning and teaching in schools.” —LAUREN POROSOFF Teacher, Ethical Culture Fieldston School Bronx, New York
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K AT I E W H I T E
K–12 teachers will: • Understand the language of assessment and softened assessment edges • Spot the indicators of hard and soft edges in classroom practices • Discover how to educate for the whole student to meet students’ cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and ethical development needs • Examine the importance of a learning continuum • Visualize the qualities of a shared space that supports students’ and teachers’ learning
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Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices That Honor K—12 Teachers and Learners asserts that assessment
“Softening the Edges beautifully entwines narrative and practical processes, tools, and questions to inspire a new vision for assessment design, use, and scope that shifts assessment from a solely technical endeavor to one that captures its power to transform both teacher and student. This is an essential read and a much-needed voice in the arena of classroom assessment.”