Discover the key assessment tools that make up a comprehensive assessment system, which assessments are administered at different points during the year, and how key assessments support your multi-tiered system of support (MTSS).

Assessment data play a powerful role in identifying patterns and inequities in performance, risk levels, and outcomes for different groups of students. Learn how to leverage your assessment tools to advance equity in your school or district.

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Focus your data culture around assessment and data literacy in order to equitably accelerate learning. Discover meeting norms, logistics suggestions, and sample exercises to help you build assessment literacy around your current assessment tools.

Learn how to use screening data to examine Tier 1 practices, drive program effectiveness and equity conversations, and inform fall intensifications that accelerate growth for all students.

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Explore the purposes and uses of universal screening for academics and SEB and how to use screening data throughout the year to accelerate growth.

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Oftentimes, confusion around assessments stems from having either gaps or redundancies in your assessment system. But how can you tell? Use these resources to inventory and evaluate your own assessment tools and whether they form a cohesive, comprehensive system.

Unpack research and expert guidance on equitably and effectively using assessment to accelerate learning, maximize instruction, and support the whole child.

Get a better understanding of the role of SEB assessments within an MTSS and how SEB data can be used to provide more targeted and effective supports.

In a cohesive assessment system, each assessment type has an important role to play. Deepen your understanding of a holistic, comprehensive assessment system to help make the individual assessments easier to understand.

Learn more about progress monitoring, including information about its origins, purposes, assessments, procedures, and an intro to how to interpret progress data.

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Deepen your understanding of how progress monitoring helps monitor for catch-up growth, practice interpreting progress monitoring data, and unpack progress monitoring FAQs.

Explore how educators' approach to making data-driven decisions has the potential to increase equity in access, opportunities, and outcomes—and enhance equitable supports for years to come.

Discover data analysis questions (with recommended action steps) to increase your team's confidence in determining whether to continue, change, or fade interventions in order to close learning gaps faster.

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Unpack assessment types, differences, purposes, and best practices—and how assessments fit together into a comprehensive system that empowers educators and supports each student.

Discover articles and resources for examining whole child data (including assessment data), through an equity lens, a facilitator's guide to equity-based data conversations, data analysis worksheets, and more.

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Take a deep-dive into the purposes of the two most important types of SEB assessments—universal screening and progress monitoring—and how to choose the most reliable measures for both.

Illuminate's Comprehensive Assessment Solution provides a complete set of standards and skills-based assessment tools to understand each student's academic and social-emotional behavior (SEB) learning and needs.

Deepen your team's assessment literacy with exercises centered around your current assessment tools and resources to help bolster your data culture.

SEB assessments provide valid and reliable data around students' SEB functioning to help identify and address non-academic barriers to success.

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Discover specific analysis questions to identify Tier 1 needs and pinpoint students who are at risk—plus, recommended next steps for a variety of scenarios.

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Explore your locally developed and common assessments from a whole new perspective. Unpack assessment and item design to better understand what your assessments measure and therefore increase how much information they provide your PLC or data team.

Learn various approaches to measuring SEB skills and criteria for selecting a screener that gives you valid, reliable data to support your SEL program and interventions.

Review the components of a comprehensive assessment program and discover six steps to creating a well-rounded, efficient, cost-effective assessment system that meets the needs of all stakeholders.