{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"S02 EP25 Greatest Hits Assessment","description":"Beau Neal is an educator, an administrator, and an entrepreneur seeking to improve the state of education not just in his home state of Oregon, but across the country. In the last four years he has co-founded a revolutionary online charter school, Frontier Charter Academy, and a first-of-its-kind educational consulting company, SYS Education. Beau is an advocate for online education and a believer in giving power to teachers. Beau joins Natalie to discuss all our previous guests\u2019 thoughts on formative and summative assessments. We learn to go beyond a grade and find worth in backward design and student-centered projects. Timestamps: Tim Batiuk\u2019s ideas about student engagement and reflection [1:38] Maddy Dahl\u2019s backward design focus [2:51] Ashley White\u2019s ideas for chunking assessments [4:08] Katie Schweitzer\u2019s functional lens [5:37] Our educators\u2019 views are legit [8:19] Beau and Natalie talk reflection in the grading process [9:09]&amp;nbsp; Benefits of feedback loops [11:10] Why am I learning this? [11:40] Real world application as the goal [12:35] Thinking in terms of function [13:05] Assume kids will Google info and ask them to do something with it [13:22] Why am I giving this assessment? [14:45] Don\u2019t forget your teacher prep learning [15:15] Tiny home designs as assessments? [15:40] Can we be more intentional? [16:27] &amp;nbsp; Resource Links:  Tiny House Project - Grade 5 Math ","author_name":"SYS Presents: Adventures in Online Education","author_url":"https:\/\/syseducation.org\/aoe","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22002959\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/120531356"}