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Testing Talk

Testing Talk is a website where educators are sharing their observations about the new Common Core standardized assessments. Whether your state is administering the new PARCC or Smarter Balanced assessments or the Pearson, McGraw-Hill or ACT assessments, your feedback is needed, wanted and encouraged. The Testing Talk website has a survey about your state specific assessment and a comment section where educators are lending their voices. It really is a good read.

The committee of educators that are taking part in Testing Talk is pretty impressive. The ones listed on the TestingTalk.org website are:

Let your voice be heard!

Richard Allington	Dick Allington, Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee, is former President of the International Reading Association and the Literacy Research Association. Dick is also the author of many texts, including What Really Matters for Struggling Readers and the Handbook of Reading Disability Research.
Carl Anderson	Carl Anderson, a former elementary and middle school teacher, is the author of How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, Assessing Writers, and Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward Grades 3-6.
Kylene Beers	Kylene, a Past President of the National Council of Teachers of English and former Senior Reading Researcher at the School Development Program Yale University, is the author and co-author of many texts including When Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do; Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading; and Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice.
Henry Braun	Henry Braun is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and the Director of the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Education Policy.
Lucy Calkins	Lucy Calkins, the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and the Richard Robinson Professor of Children’s Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University, is author and co-author of many books, including Pathways to the Common Core, and Units of Study in Opinion, Information and Narrative Writing.
Anthony Cody	Anthony Cody, a former middle school science teacher, is co-founder of the Network for Public Education and writes the “Living in Dialogue” blog at Ed Week.
Kathy Collins	Kathy Collins, a former teacher and Teachers College Reading and Writing Project staff member, is the author of Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom and Reading for Real: Teach Students to Read with Power, Intention and Joy in K-3 Classrooms.
Eric Cooper	Eric Cooper is the Founder and President of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education. Eric blogs at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-cooper/ and is a Huffington Post/TedTalk.com thought leader. He is also the host for the National Council on Educating Black Children Blog Talk Radio.
Tom Corcoran	Thomas B. Corcoran is Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and principal investigator of the Center on Continuous Instructional Improvement.
Smokey Daniels	Harvey “Smokey” Daniels is the author and coauthor of many books, including Best Practice: Bringing Standards to Life in America’s Classrooms, Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action.
Mary Ehrenworth	Mary Ehrenworth is Deputy Director for Middle Schools at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and co-author of Pathways to the Common Core.
Anne Goudvis	Anne Goudvis is coauthor of Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit and The Primary Comprehension Toolkit series.
Stephanie Harvey	Stephanie Harvey is a former classroom and special education teacher, author of Nonfiction Matters and coauthor of Strategies that Work, The Comprehension Toolkit Series, and Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action.
Julian Vasquez Heilig	Julian Vasquez Heilig is an Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Planning and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Julian blogs at http://www.cloakinginequity.com.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs	Heidi Hayes Jacobs is the founder and president of Curriculum Designers. Her books include Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Curriculum Into Your Local School Curriculum (SINET); Curriculum 21: Essential Education for A Changing World (ASCD) and Contemporary Perspectives on the New Literacies: Digital, Media, Global (Solution-Tree).
Peter Johnston	Peter Johnston, a professor at The University at Albany-State University of New York, is author of Knowing Literacy, Choice Words, and co-author of Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers.
Bena Kallick	Bena Kallick has taught at Yale’s School of Organization and Management and the Center for Creative and Critical Thinking at the University of Massachusetts; she was cofounder of a company that helps integrate data from curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She is presently Co-Director of Institute for Habits of Mind and Program Director for Eduplanet21.
Ellin Oliver Keene	Ellin Oliver Keene, is co-author of Mosaic of Thought and author of To Understand, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies and Talk About Understanding.
Patricia Kinsella	Patricia Kinsella, a former Kindergarten and bilingual elementary teacher, is a district administrator in Massachusetts.
Steve Leinwand	Steve Leinwand, a Principal Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Washington, D.C., is the author of several math textbooks, along with Sensible Mathematics: A Guide for School Leaders in an Era of Common Core State Standards and Accessible Math: 10 Instructional Shifts that Raise Student Achievement.
Mariana Souto-Manning	Mariana Souto-Manning, an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Teachers College, is the author of Multicultural teaching in the early childhood classroom: Strategies, tools, and approaches, PreK-2nd grade and Freire, teaching, and learning: Culture circles across contexts.
Robert Marzano	Robert J. Marzano is cofounder and CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory in Colorado and author of more than 30 books and 150 articles.
Jay McTighe	Jay McTighe is an educational consultant and author of thirteen books, including co-authoring the Understanding by Design series.
Debbie Miller	Debbie Miller is the author of Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades 2nd Edition, Teaching with Intention, and co-author of No More Independent Reading without Support. A classroom teacher for thirty years, Debbie now consults with schools and districts on long-range planning and development of literacy programs.
Pedro Noguera	Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, and the co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings.
Nancy Carlsson-Paige	Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita at Lesley University, is a teacher educator in early childhood education and author of Taking Back Childhood.
David Pearson	P. David Pearson, a faculty member and former Dean at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, researches ways of using reading, writing and language as tools for learning and engagement.
Robert Probst	Robert Probst, Professor Emeritus of English Education at Georgia State University, consults nationally and internationally on issues surrounding adolescent literacy. He is the author or co-author of many texts including Response and Analysis; Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice; and Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading.
Gary Rubinstein	Gary Rubinstein has been teaching math since 1991. He is the author of two books about teaching and a three time recipient of the Math For America Master Teacher fellowship.
Alan Schoenfeld	Alan Schoenfeld holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan, the author of Mathematical Problem Solving and How We Think, is former President of the American Educational Research Association.
Alfred Tatum	Alfred Tatum, Professor and interim Dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap and Reading For Their Life: (Re) building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males.
Grant Wiggins	Grant Wiggins is the co-author of Understanding by Design, the author of Educative Assessment, and President of Authentic Education.