Formative Assessment in Designing and Refining Long-Term Professional Development

This video - designed as a three-part interview accompanied by writing prompts - focuses on the friendship and cultural sharing between Chief Red Cloud and homesteader James Cook of Agate Ranch.

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

What does it mean to study the students you are teaching? What ethical dilemmas arise, and how can we navigate these spaces in trustworthy, ethical ways?