Critical Thinking and Formative Assessments : Increasing the Rigor in Your Classroom
Critical Thinking and Formative Assessments : Increasing the Rigor in Your Classroom
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Author(s): Moore, Betsy
Stanley, Todd
ISBN No.: 9781596671263
Pages: 176
Year: 201710
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 40.99
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Betsy Moore is a veteran teacher who retired from Reynoldsburg City Schools after 30 years of service and is currently the Executive Director of Teacher 2 Teacher (www.teacher2teacher.info), a national educational consulting company based in Ohio. Betsy began her career as a special education teacher, eventually moving on to the regular education classroom. While in the regular classroom she worked on many cutting-edge strategies including student-led conferences and short-cycle assessments. From 2000-2007 Betsy worked in the Literacy Curriculum Alignment Project (LCAP), training over 1500 teachers in more than 60 schools. She co-authored the book Short-Cycle Assessment: Improving Student Achievement through Formative Assessment which details the process developed in the LCAP work. In her role with Teacher 2 Teacher, Betsy provides quality professional development in the areas of differentiated instruction, short-cycle assessment development, and developing critical thinking skills and rigor to name a few.


Betsy lives with her husband Dave, a retired high school assistant principal, in Columbus, Ohio. She has two grown children, Amy, who lives in Hilliard, Ohio, and Bryan, who lives in Temecula, California. Also living in Temecula is Betsy's first grandchild, a granddaugher, Aria Nicole., Todd Stanley began teaching in 1997. A National Board Certified Teacher, he started out in the traditional classroom, teaching junior high students for two years, but quickly was given different growth experiences as a teacher. He taught on a gifted-accelerated team for three years, compacting three years of curriculum into two years of classroom time. He then taught at the Christopher Program, a project-based, integrated curriculum that serviced juniors and seniors, providing many outside learning experiences for students. During this time he also trained teachers from all around the state of Ohio for the Literacy Curriculum Alignment Project (LCAP), helping teachers to align the.



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