SHOWCASE PHASE
SHOWCASE: Making Learning Visible
At the end of a learning cycle, your teachers are making decisions about how students demonstrate understanding - and how that demonstration leads to growth.
This is the SHOWCASE phase - where students consolidate learning, produce work that makes their thinking visible, and receive feedback that moves them ...
The Core Decision Points
During the SHOWCASE phase, teachers are asking:
Am I offering multiple ways for students to show what they know - maintaining cognitive demand while flexing linguistic demand?
Format flexibility isn't about lowering expectations. It's about recognizing that students can demonstrate rigorous thinking in multiple ...
The Stakes
Here's what happens when SHOWCASE strategies work well: multilingual learners produce work that reflects their intellectual capacity, not just their current English proficiency. They know what quality looks like, they receive feedback that helps them get there, and they develop confidence as capable learners.
When S...
Professional Learning Focus
Professional Learning Focus
In our work with districts, the SHOWCASE phase is where teachers learn to make assessment work for multilingual learners rather than against them.
This is where they learn to:
Write clear success criteria that name what rigor looks like Design format-flexible assessments that ...
