I had some thoughts about assessing my freshmen today after a particularly not great assessment last week 🙃 I wrote this all out in a thread and then thought “no, this should be a blog post!”. Our school gets students from around 40(!!) different feeder schools. Yes, we’re a private school. Also, yes, the Milwaukee area has a wild amount of K-8 and middle schools. (Maybe it’s just wild to me because it’s the opposite of where I grew up where there was one middle school and one high school 😅) Because we get students from so many different schools, we also get students with a VERY wide range of prerequisite knowledge and skills. Example: today we covered how to find slope between two points. 2/3 of the room had at least seen it, 1/3 had never seen it. (I recognize most schools have students with a wide range of knowledge and skills and it’s not just us, but the amount of feeder schools we have is truly wild.) Enter our summative assessments. Let me start by saying I haven’t found the