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'Parking Lot' Question and Response May 7, 2013
“How many times should I have students ‘re-hand in’ their work before I mark it or before I don’t allow for any more revisions?” The parking lot…a place that we drive around until we find a spot for our car that is open…a place where the ‘meeting after the meeting’ can occur…a place for us to post our questions as we are learning. The latter is a strategy t […]
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PAYING ATTENTION...TO QUESTIONS...TO CONDITIONS...TO PROCESS Apr 2, 2013
In the last blog entry, I reflected on my work with school leaders who were considering a wide range of evidence (classroom-based evidence, large-scale assessment results at grades three and six, and data sets that included contextual, attitudinal, and demographic information) and its implications on classroom instruction. Since then, I have met with severa […]
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QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE THINKING Mar 4, 2013
On Friday, I was working alongside a group of about 350 school leaders who were thinking and talking about ways to move from evidence and data to classroom practice. The data that they had been called to look at came from a variety of sources: classroom-based evidence, large-scale assessment results at grades three and six, and data sets that included cont […]
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Sandra Herbst

Sandra Herbst, CEO of connect2learning, is a noted system leader, author, coach, and consultant with almost twenty years of experience in education. She has worked at the Early, Middle, and Senior Years levels. Her passion for learning has led her through working as a classroom teacher, a specialist teacher in French and Music, a school administrator, a program consultant, an Assistant Superintendent of Schools in a large District in Manitoba, and a variety of consulting positions. She is a past President of the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents and the Manitoba ASCD Affiliate.

Sandra has led professional development workshops for more than a decade and was drawn to the field of assessment for learning because of the results she observed in classrooms. She has co-authored two books on the topic of assessment.

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