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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">My very dear friends and colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">A few days ago I let you know about
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://goo.gl/mFakGB">my distress about two recent articles</a> about assessment that are</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">
getting a lot of attention. Part of what bothered me is how both articles took a very narrow and constrained definition of “Assessment” and then focused on the negative.
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Every year, the Assessment, Teaching, and Learning conference is about expanding and growing our shared understanding of what assessment is—and what it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Every year for over two decades, the ATL conference has been a way to experience the positively EXCITING work being done in our system under the
<a href="https://goo.gl/aMJW18">big tent</a> of assessment. <br>
<br>
The <a href="https://goo.gl/nt8ATm">2018 ATL</a> is no exception.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">In addition to the special concurrent session
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">“<a href="https://goo.gl/mFakGB"><span style="color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Assessment ReBoot,”</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"> facilitated
by the exceptional Pat Hutchings of NILOA . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">. . . as well as a pre-conference workshop exploring <a href="https://goo.gl/BJjtGX" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1ABC9C;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“Authentic” Program
Assessment in Guided Pathways</span></a> led by Bill Moore (SBCTC) and Andrea Reid (Spokane CC). . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">We have a fabulous line-up of presenters who embody what works and is working about assessment in our colleges:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Follow-Up to Plenary I: “Our Lasting Work: How to Bridge Between Equity and Outcomes Assessment,” Deb Jenkins, Clark College<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline: 0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Follow-Up to Plenary II: “Using Transparent Assignments to Promote Equitable Success in the Classroom,” Judy Loveless-Morris, Tacoma<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline: 0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“What Does Student Success Look Like? Humanizing Data Through the Power of Storytelling,” Justin Ericksen, Whatcom<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline: 0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“Qualitative Data: What Does it Mean? What Do We Do With It?” Sean Agriss, EWU, & Ian Sherman-Youngblood, Green River<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline: 0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“We’ve Committed to Pathways, Now What?: Using Outcomes-Based Curriculum to Ensure Equitable Success Rates for all Students,” Gretchen Robertson, Skagit Valley<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline: 0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“Collaboration, Free Technology, and a Bit of Fun: How Lower Columbia College Created an English Directed Self-Placement Model from ‘Scratch’!” Angel Ruvalcaba & Amber Lemiere, Lower
Columbia<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><br>
When I think about these high-quality, timely, and fascinating explorations of what assessment REALLY is and can be . . . I remember a moment when I was in the tenure process at GRC trying to choose which Shakespeare texts to teach in a 10 week quarter. The
chair of my tenure committee, the amazing Hank Galmish of GRC, called it an “embarrassment of riches.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">While Hank will most likely be appalled when he finds out I’ve used a metaphor he used for Shakespeare
to describe assessment, I still think it’s apropos here, because I know participants at the ATL are going to have a hard time choosing which sessions to attend!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">Therefore, I recommend colleges send teams to the ATL and employ a “divide and conquer” approach.<br>
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As participants attend sessions, they build up their individual assessment literacy. When they return to the group and share what they’ve learned (there will be time for this during a “sensemaking” final session of the conference, titled, “Wait! Don’t Leave
Yet!”), the collective assessment literacy of the attending group is bolstered substantially. When they return to campus, they can provide “sensegiving” experiences to their colleagues unable to attend the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444"><br>
My supervisor and trusted mentor, Bill Moore, calls this “Broadening and Deepening,” and it is one of the most useful benefits of attending the upcoming 2018 ATL Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">To Register for the Conference</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#444444">: <a href="https://goo.gl/BLX6MQ"><span style="color:#1ABC9C;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">https://goo.gl/BLX6MQ</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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