Jill Marcus
About
Jill Marcus co-leads the Maine Partnership to Support Innovative and Equitable Educational Opportunities. As a training and technical assistance associate, she is an expert in performance assessment, continuous improvement, and teacher professional development.
Marcus worked as a teacher and administrator in Massachusetts public schools for more than a decade. She now works with state, district, and school personnel to implement new curricula, programs, and pedagogies. She is a co-creator of Creating and Using Performance Assessments: An Online Course for Practitioners, which provides educators with detailed information on how to create and use performance assessments in the classroom. She also assists with qualitative and quantitative data collection and evaluation of educational programs.
Marcus holds an MEd in Elementary Education from Boston University.
Email: jmarcus@edc.org
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Card Activity Helps Educators Sort Out Types of Assessment
In this blog post, we share an activity that uses the Making Sense of Educational Assessment to help educators in Maine better understand and implement assessment strategies that are purposeful and effective.
Date published:
Nov 08, 2024
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The College Access Evidence Matrix: Interventions to Support Postsecondary Transitions
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm ET Location: Virtual Description: This session introduces the College Access Evidence Matrix, an informational resource designed to help college-access providers and educational leaders easily find proven interventions, aligned to the highest Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) evidence standards, that can increase the likelihood that students successfully transition to postsecondary education and training. REL Appalachia staff provides an orientation to the evidence matr...
Sep 28, 2021
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Research-Based Strategies for Effective Remote Learning
Location: Virtual Description: REL Appalachia (REL AP) staff, in partnership with education leaders from districts in eastern Tennessee and representatives from the Niswonger Foundation, developed a train-the-trainer workshop series to share effective methods for delivering online instruction to students in grades K-12. Participants in the workshops listed below will learn about what can work best for students and teachers in their schools and districts. Following each workshop, participants ...
Dec 08, 2020
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Creating and Using Performance Assessments: An Online Course for Practitioners
This self-paced online course provides educators with detailed information on creating and using performance assessments. Through five 30-minute modules, practitioners, instructional leaders, and administrators will learn the foundational concepts of assessment literacy and how to develop, score, and use performance assessments. They will also learn about the role of performance assessment within a comprehensive assessment system. [The course can be accessed directly from <a href="https://ies...
Nov 01, 2020
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Supporting Postsecondary Transitions During COVID-19: Practical Resources and Considerations
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the college application, financial aid, and decision-making processes for students and families seeking a higher education, creating a need for secondary and higher education practitioners to innovate and support students through uncharted territory. Read more to learn how school counselors, school leaders, teachers, and other education staff can support students with financial aid processes, social-emotional supports and creating connections with families when...
Date published:
Jun 05, 2020
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Supporting Postsecondary Transitions During COVID-19
Time: 3:00- 4:00 p.m. EDT Description: School closures due to the COVID-19 crisis present a hurdle for students who are preparing to transition from high school to postsecondary education and training. In this virtual chat, REL Appalachia and our partners will discuss logistical and nonacademic supports for keeping students on the path to postsecondary, such as supporting students and families in completing and making updates to FAFSA applications; understanding financial award letters and co...
May 14, 2020
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Building Bridges to College and Career: Social Emotional Preparation
Location: Manchester, KY Description: REL AP staff shared tools and resources on preparing students with social emotional skills for successful postsecondary transitions. The session provided research-based strategies for building school culture, growth mindset, and self-efficacy for all educators including teachers, principals, school counselors, leaders from schools and school districts, university college and career readiness counselors, and career and technical education (CTE) staff. This...
Oct 23, 2019
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Descriptive Study
Children's Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois: Results from the First Statewide Administration of the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child's skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey. State and local stakeholders have asked for more information on the reliability and validity of the survey and on the gaps in children's skills at school entry. This study analyzed the psychometric properties of the 14 re...
Oct 01, 2019
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How Can We Better Translate Education Research into Action?
Despite the growth in the number of education researcher-practitioner collaborations, gaps in knowledge remain about how to translate research into action effectively.1 Education practitioners still make limited direct use of education research findings to drive their decision-making at state, district, school, and classroom levels. Although the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a federal education law passed in 2002, increased efforts to improve the use and dissemination of research knowledge...
Date published:
Oct 01, 2018
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