Laura Abuhl just wrote what she thought probably to be a rather innocuous question:
…yes, I am tired. And yes, I need to take a rest and breathe, but I am so intrigued by these two topics and need TIME over the summer to shift my paradigm. Ben, are you suggesting that the assessment topic will be addressed at iFLT? I hope so! I am ready to soak in the “compassionate assessment” topic. Does your new book address the targetless instruction?….
but what she said cued me into something really big:
I can’t stop the assessment/curriculum train for the summer. I can’t put it off until iFLT.
Accordingly, I’ve asked Claire to summarize all the recent (sometimes hard to follow because who has time – this discussion has been so intense with so many comments) discussion and get us succinctly to closure on this entire assessment/curriculum deal, like IN THE NEXT WEEK.
If it were a cross country race, I am asking our team captain on this project to start the spring now. And we are going to sprint until we get to the finish line.
THAT is what your comment has put into motion, Laura. Alisa and Stephen want that as well. Sorry, I’m trying to pack a house to come back home so haven’t kept up as well as I should have.
But if Claire accepts the redefinition process right now and gives us the posts, all is good.
I will ask her to entitle this new series of Clairification Posts:
The End of Assessment – 1
The End of Assessment – 2
The End of Assessment – 3
The End of Assessment – 4
or something like that.
Plus we get a new curriuclum hard link and it’s not even going to be called that, but a Scope and Sequence, because Claire told me just today: