WERA Spring Conference - "Aiming High to Close the Gap", March 24-25, 2010
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

WERA/OSPI State Assessment Conference "Students First in a Brave New World" December 9-11, 2009
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

Dylan Wiliam Formative Assessment workshop on June 25, 2009
PowerPoint presentation available from the workshop click here

WERA Spring Conference "Between the Bookends: Connecting standards-based instruction to the research on assessment"
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

WERA/OSPI Assessment Conference "Assessment Dynamics for Dynamic Learning"
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

WERA Spring 2008 Conference “Leaders, Learners, and Change Agents”
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

The 23rd Annual WERA/OSPI Washington State Assessment Conference “Testing Assumptions " December 5-7, 2007
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

WERA Spring Conference "Making the Grade - Gathering and Reporting Evidence of Student Learning" March 28-30, 2007
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here

WERA/OSPI Assessment Conference "Preparing ALL Students for the 21st Century" December 6-8, 2006
Conference Presentations and Final Program available click here
PowerPoint of Playing Cards (education quotes) available click here

WERA OSPI Symposium "Achieving Growth Models"
June 2, 2006 - Puget Sound ESD

Keynote Address: Growth Models for Monitoring Schools - Pete Goldschmidt, UCLA/CRESST
What We Gain From Growth Models - Pete Goldschmidt
Policymaker's Guide to Growth Models for School Accountability: How do Accountability Models Differ? - Goldschmidt, et al.
Measuring Student Academic Growth: Recent Seattle Experience - Mike O'Connell, Seattle Public Schools
Application of Growth and Value-Added Models to WASL - Joe Wilhoft, OSPI
Drawbacks of Vertical Scales - William D. Schafer, University of Maryland
Reflections on Using Northwest Evaluation Association's Scale - Phil Dommes, North Thurston School District

Spring 2006 WERN Forum - High School Reform:
Introduction / The High Schools We Need
Gates Foundation projects
High School improvement projects
Career and technical education

Spring 2006 WERA Conference:
Conference Program
Ann Conzemius PowerPoint warning, large file!

Winter 2005 WERA Conference:
Michael Fullen's web site
Conference Program

At the 2005 winter conference's annual Praeger's Follies, participants were challenged to rewrite Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changing" with lyrics relevant to education these days. Click here to hear Nancy Steer's winning entry as performed by her son Hunter. Click here for the lyrics to Nancy's song.

Spring 2005 WERA Conference:
Dr. Larry Cuban's Keynote Presentation - "The Politics of Doing School Reform Daily"

Dr. Cuban's Policy Logic Models

Dr. Lorrie Shephard's Keynote Presentation - warning: LARGE file!

Related Links:

Winter 2002 WERA Conference:
Ron Brandt Keynote Address
Further Comments from Tom Guskey

Spring 2002 WERA Conference 
Jeanne Paratore's Power Point Presentation

Winter 2000 OSPI/WERA Assessment Conference
Ann Lieberman's Presentation

Spring 2000 WERA Conference
Comments from Jose Mestre

Winter 1999 OSPI/WERA Assessment Conference
Comments from Andrei Codrescu