By Dr. Jason Trumble Yesterday I was facilitating a class activity for my college students who want to be teachers. We were digging into how to design formative assessments that could be used to check for student progress throughout a unit. I loved this time. Although we were all masked, the room was a buzz of ideas and searches and collaborations and questions. Behind my mask, I was grinning from ear to ear as I moved from one table to another to support students' wonderings

By Mara Aspinall, Jessica Little, and Leah Perkinson As schools work to remain open this fall, school administrators are working to adjust to a new reality of trying to keep children safe in school in the face of a highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. Until the Delta variant, children seemed to be less likely to contract and transmit COVID-19, but Delta has changed that. When school ended in the spring, many districts were dropping mitigation measures with the expectati