Vague promises are unlikely to win funding or support. When it comes to grant writing, numbers can speak more eloquently than words. I first became aware of assessment as staff development when classroom teachers in Bellingham became observers charged with the task of measuring the students' group behaviors, logic and persuasiveness. For many, the experience made the goals of the technology program come to life in palpable terms while dramatizing what work still needed to be done. Many commented that they had learned more by watching than they normally learned when charged more officially with learning.
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