Authentic Assessments

Greensville County is a Year 1 Innovation Team from Cohort II, with an initial innovation goal to increase project-based tasks and student-centered learning in the classroom. We will present our story of excitement in the beginning, how we stuck with our goals throughout, hardships, successes and how we changed our innovation to work for our school district during the Pandemic.

Performance Tasks in Action and Voices of VaLIN podcast

How has Fairfax County Public Schools attempted to adapt instructional practices to shift with changing times? Experience the journey of trail blazing schools that are shifting instruction to provide experiences where students learn, develop, and showcase their growth in “Portrait of a Graduate” skills through student led Presentations of Learning. See the journey from initial concept, planning, teacher shifts, roadblocks, and adjustments that will allow these practices and assessment strategies to be the norm for all students, and how partnership with a state cohort will help propel the initiative.