Start of year
Establish a baseline and choose a focused growth goal.
Professional learning
Professional learning ·
Grow your assessment practice with purpose.
Reflect against observable descriptors, gather evidence, deepen your knowledge, and prepare for an affirming conversation with your Reporting Officer.
Current checkpoint0 of 4 areas rated
Begin with an honest baseline.
Glossary help is on. Hover, focus or tap a dotted term for its definition.
A developmental cycle
How to use the tool
Meaningful progression through all four assessment areas may take two to four years. Depth matters more than speed.
Practice and gather evidence
Apply the goal, adapt for learner profiles, and collect observable examples.
End of year
Rate again, reflect on growth, and prepare evidence for professional dialogue.
Affirmation conversation
Review evidence with your Reporting Officer, calibrate the rating, and agree next steps.
The affirmation process
Acknowledge · Affirm · Calibrate
A structured professional conversation with your Reporting Officer. It is developmental in intent: a space for honest reflection and dialogue, not performance judgement, unless jointly agreed otherwise.
- PrepareChoose an assessment area and gather work samples, tools, observation records, data or family communications.
- ReviewYour RO considers your reflection and evidence, noting alignment and questions.
- Discuss and agreeAffirm strengths, calibrate the rating against evidence, and record specific next steps.
For school-wide learning
Aggregated ratings are meaningful only when staff use the same descriptors, ground ratings in observable evidence, complete RO calibration, and record agreed next steps. Individual browser drafts are not automatically submitted or aggregated.