2025 MidSchoolMath National Conference

Join the discussion about how we can open the door to rigor and challenge for all of our students. In this session, we will share our journey to build a "tiered" assessment that provides students with the scaffolding to demonstrate general competency, while also inviting them to dig deeper using their problem-solving skills. By giving students choice and agency, we can open the door to authentic challenge to all of our students.

In this workshop, we will investigate our own assessment practices. We will discuss the values in our classrooms and then consider how we reinforce or reward these values. This approach, which can be used at any age and applied to any standards-based metric, is a powerful way to improve transparency and access in systems with leveled groupings. It can also help mitigate implicit bias, opening access to challenging material to all students and giving them a chance to exceed our expectations.

You will leave this session with examples of how we have used a tiered approach in our school and ideas for how you might implement this tool in your own classroom.