2024 NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment
The 5th NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment is being held in person September 19-20, 2024 at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL. The conference theme is “Reclaiming the Promise of Balanced Assessment Systems: Achieving Deeper Learning at Scale for Both Students and Adults.”
This year’s special conference is being co-hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools, with support from the Center for Assessment. These hosts continue NCME’s longstanding commitment to improving assessment practices that privilege deeper learning for all, and that happen directly between teachers and their students.
Registration
Register Here!
The program development team has done its best to keep this year’s registration fees as low as possible:
- NCME members: $325
- Non-NCME members: $450
Schedule
The 2024 Fall Classroom Assessment schedule is live! To view the online schedule, please click here. Once clicking on the link, please click "View the Online Program."
You can also download the PDF program here.
Hotel Reservations
Group rate reservations have now closed.
Contact the Palmer House at (312) 726-7500 for more information or to make a reservation at the regular hotel rate.
Speakers
Download the NCME Fall Classroom Assessment slide deck template!
Keynotes
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Dr. Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Clemson University
Author of Improvement Science for Educators: A Primer (2020) |
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Dr. Decoteau J. Irby
Associate Professor, Urban Education Leadership Program, University of Illinois-Chicago
Co-editor of Dignity-Affirming Education: Cultivating the Somebodiness of Students and Educators (2022); author of Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (2021)
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Dr. Steve Tozer
Professor Emeritus in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
With panel:
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Bogdana Chkoumbova, Chief Education Officer
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Dr. Elizabeth Todd-Breland, CPS Board Vice President and Associate Professor of History at UIC
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Dr. Annise Lewis, Chief of Network 11
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Daniel De Los Reyes, Principal of Darwin Elementary School
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Ms. Decarla Jackson, Lead Coach at World Language Academy HS
- Veronica E. Galindo, Director of Digital Curriculum
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Panel Facilitated by Scott Marion
With panel:
- Carla Evans, Center for Assessment and chapter co-author
- Laura Hamilton, AIR, and chapter co-author
- Peter Leonard, Chicago Public Schools, and volume reviewer
- Brooke Smothers-Strizic, Bakersfield City School District
- Hilary Kjaer, Rincon Valley Union School District
- Jim Pellegrino, University of Illinois, Chicago, and co-editor
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Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the special conference program development team at pzavit@uic.edu.
Call for Proposals
Proposals are no longer being accepted - the submission deadline was May 3, 2024. Notifications to all persons who submitted proposals were completed on May 20, 2024.
History
Earlier NCME Special Conferences on Classroom Assessments were held in 2017 and 2018 (University of Kansas), 2019 (University of Colorado, Boulder), and 2021 (University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and College of William and Mary).