Formative Assessment in an Alternative Setting

How do you check for understanding? Do you differentiate for each student if you know they understand the information? Does that include a summative assessment too? What is the difference between formative assessment and summative assessments? What do they look like?

Gifted Students in an Alternative Setting

How many talented and gifted students do you have in your alternative high school?
We show 11 on the state report, however, I feel we are missing others.

Recommended Book List - Please add more...

• Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades by Dr. Sylvia Rimm
• Empowering Underachievers: How To Guide by Dr. Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch
• The Unmotivated Child by Dr. Natalie Rathvon
• The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic! by Bill Milliken
• Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students by Kathleen Cushman