Subject Area Guidance

Section Three: Subject Area Guidance

The Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction has published a variety of tools and resources intended to help educators design culturally responsive-sustaining assessments. Some important ones to explore are:

• Culturally Responsive Formative Assessment: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by Maja Wilson and Serena O’Neill

• Questions that Begin Culturally Responsive Formative Assessment Inquiries by Maja Wilson and Serena O’Neill

• OSPI-developed assessments in the Arts, Educational Technology, Health and Physical Education, and Social Studies provide examples of classroom assessments in a variety of subject areas.

High School Science: The Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction supports the NGSS framework for teaching Science and Engineering. Here you will find an MBLC Task Model toolkit that helps educators to build assessments for the Science and Engineering Practices while incorporating MBL and CRSE.

High School Reading: Task Model