Attend One, Two, Three, or All Four!
Transform assessment into meaningful action! CESA 3’s Assessment à la Carte Series offers four practical, hands-on workshops designed to help educators strengthen assessment practices, make sense of student data, provide meaningful feedback, and explore how AI can support instructional decisions.
Choose the sessions that best meet your professional learning needs, whether you’re building a student-centered assessment culture, using data to guide instruction, refining formative assessment strategies, or exploring AI-powered assessment tools.
Explore the Four Workshops:
- November 19, 2026 | Assessment as Empowerment: Design a student-centered learning environment where meaningful assessment supports student growth.
- December 2, 2026 | From Numbers to Next Steps: Make sense of formative, interim, and summative data to identify learning needs and plan instructional next steps.
- December 14, 2026 | Move the Needle with Formative Practices: Go beyond praise and grades with clear learning targets, actionable feedback, and responsive instruction.
- February 8, 2027 | AI as an Assessment Assistant: Explore how AI can help design assessments, identify learning trends, and develop targeted instructional strategies.
All workshops are held from 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. at CESA 3.
Your learning doesn’t end when the workshop does! Each session includes customized follow-up coaching, available in person or virtually, to help you confidently implement new strategies at your own pace.
There is no cost to participate! All four workshops and follow-up coaching opportunities are fully funded by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
Choose what works for you and turn assessment insights into meaningful student learning!
Upcoming Dates
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19NovNov. 19 - Assessment as Empowerment: Designing a Student-Centered Learning Environment
- Develop a clear assessment vision: define what a thriving, student-centered data culture looks like in your specific classroom.
- Gain effective strategies to integrate continuous, meaningful assessment into your daily teaching.
- Evaluate your current practices and choose the areas you want to refine for maximum impact.
- Schedule flexible, follow-up complimentary coaching (in person or via Zoom) to help you comfortably put new strategies into practice at your own pace.
9:00 am-3:00 pm -
02DecDec. 2 - From Numbers to Next Steps: Making Sense of Formative, Interim, and Summative Data
- Understand how formative, interim, and summative data work together to plan, support, monitor, and verify student learning across the school year.
- Learn consistent, collaborative protocols to interpret student evidence, spot misconception patterns, and make meaning from assessment reports.
- Evaluate current student data to set measurable growth goals, adjust daily instruction, and design immediate re-teaching or enrichment steps.
- Schedule flexible, follow-up complimentary coaching (in person or via Zoom) to help you comfortably put new strategies into practice at your own pace.
9:00 am-3:00 pm -
14DecDec. 14 - Move the Needle with Formative Practices: Going Beyond Praise and Grades
- Unpack standards into clear learning targets and success criteria.
- Master daily, ongoing techniques to check for understanding and provide specific, immediate feedback that moves student learning forward.
- Learn how to turn assessment evidence into responsive instruction.
- Schedule flexible, follow-up complimentary coaching (in person or via Zoom) to help you comfortably put new strategies into practice at your own pace.
9:00 am-3:00 pm -
08FebFeb. 8 - AI As An Assessment Assistant: Co-Designing, Trend Spotting, and Action Planning
- Partner with AI to unpack dense standards into student-friendly success criteria, draft DOK-aligned items, and build authentic performance tasks in minutes, while keeping the human in the loop.
- Use AI as an analytical co-pilot to process student evidence, spot misconception patterns in seconds, and identify possible root causes behind student errors.
- Turn assessment trends into immediate classroom moves by using AI to draft re-teaching/mini-lessons, extension challenges, and student self-assessment guides.
- Schedule flexible, follow-up complimentary coaching (in person or via Zoom) to help you comfortably put new strategies into practice at your own pace.
9:00 am-3:00 pm
Staff
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Danielle Carlson
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Ellie Olson
Leadership Coaching/Educator Effectiveness Coordinator
Venue: CESA 3 - Conference Room A
Venue Phone: 608-822-3276
Venue Website: http://www.cesa3.org
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