Request an organizer's kit or other promotional resources. Implementing standards-based education at the classroom level requires new models and tools. Here's a tool to help teachers document assessment efforts easily, connect assessments to standards, create rigorous and relevant student tasks, and get students involved in their own learning. Your impressions of this software are invited. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation ERIC has an online journal providing tips and insights into the assessment process.
Instructional rubrics help teachers teach as well as evaluate student work.
Further, creating rubrics with your students can be powerfully instructive. Ongoing discussions on topics of general interest belong on bulletin boards rather than e-mail exchanges. Postings are permanent, organized by topic, and easily accessible. Visit the new PE-Forum and see the start that has been made. Implementation may be less difficult, and more necessary, than you think.