Taking Standards-Based Feedback & Assessment to the Next Level

• LOCATION: St. Francis College, 179 Livingston St., Brooklyn
• DATE & TIME: Thursday, July 30 - Friday, July 31, 2026, 9am - 3pm daily
• LED BY: Sharona Kahn, Smith, and Mark Schober
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 12
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: teachers/educators working with any subject, any age level, who have previous experience with SBAF.

🚨NOTE: this is an advanced-level workshop for those who have some experience. Completion of the introductory-level workshop is not mandated, but highly suggested. To take the intro workshop this summer, running Monday - Wednesday of the same week, please register here.

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This advanced, two-day workshop is designed for teachers who have taken the Introductory class with us, and/or have already begun implementing Standards-Based Assessment and Feedback techniques, and who are ready to take their practice further! If you’ve encountered questions about workload, reassessments, grading policies, equity, or communication with students and families, this workshop provides space to explore those challenges in depth. We’ll evaluate the impact of your current systems, set goals for growth, and revisit how standards-based approaches shape teaching, learning, and classroom culture.

A central focus is learning from each other. Plan on sharing your systems and experiences. Together, we will have a range of approaches to build on that meet different classroom and school needs, and we will turn questions and challenges to the group for discussion and problem-solving. Through this collaborative work plus roleplay, and “elevator speech” practice, we’ll refine both our implementation and how we message this work to students, families, and colleagues.

Throughout the workshop, we will include dedicated time to align and refine your course materials—policies, assessments, and objectives—while also considering what is sustainable in day-to-day practice. With a balance of collaboration and work time, you’ll leave with concrete revisions, practical strategies, and clear next steps to take your standards-based assessment and feedback system to the next level.

A downloadable version of the agenda is available HERE.

Sharona Kahn is the Mathematics Department Chair at the Berkeley Carroll School, where she has taught and advised middle school students for the past eight years. With 16 years of experience in education, she focuses on creating hands-on, equitable learning experiences that help students develop deep mathematical understanding. Since joining STEMteachersNYC in 2017, Sharona has both taken and led workshops, with a particular passion for standards-based feedback and assessment. She is a recipient of the Siegel STEM Fellow Endowment.

S.K. Smith "Smith" was raised by wolves in the ancient town of Joplin, Missouri, where, at the ripe, old age of twelve she ran off with a second-rate traveling circus.  Having learned the necessary skills of fire-breathing and hoop-jumping, she now spends her time roaming about the country planting plastic flamingos where they are unwanted.  She can belt out a mean torch song in a pinch and--having taught in and around the great cities of Chicago, St. Louis, and New York--is most excited to work with this fantastic cadre of teachers excited about the wild and wooly world of feedback and assessment.  You can reach her to talk about truffles, tarts, and teaching at: [email protected].

Mark Schober teaches high school physics and astronomy at Trinity School in Manhattan, and has led teacher workshops for the St. Louis Area Physics Teachers, the American Modeling Teachers Association, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and STEMteachersNYC, from Introduction to Modeling Instruction workshops, to Make-n-Take workshops, to rethinking assessment and feedback to improve student learning. He also leads students in astrophotography, flying airplanes, launching rockets, knitting, and coached the 2011 World Champion Quidditch team.

is celebrating 15 years! Since 2011, we have delivered professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching. We are an approved CTLE and NYCPS MTAC vendor. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. Below is some important information, but please see our official on our website for full details and policies.

Pricing: workshop/event pricing reflects a desire to offer affordable professional learning experiences. Some workshops are subsidized and offered at a discount or for free. Some workshops include extra materials costs. Often, there is both a “Full Price” ticket for people who can pay full price and for schools/organizations paying for their staff to attend, and a “Teacher Price” ticket for teachers/educators paying out of pocket. If price is a barrier to your participation, please keep reading for several options.

CUNY & other partner campus pre-service students: If you are training to be a teacher, we want to welcome you to attend our workshops for free! Please email [email protected] for details and to see if you qualify.

Want to pay by invoice or purchase order? We encourage you to ask your school or organization if this is a possibility. Please see the for the process, which includes a template letter with messaging geared towards administrators.

Are there discounts available? Often, yes!

• Discounted Early Bird and “Teacher Price” tickets are often available.
• Each summer, the Wanninkhof Excellence in Teaching Scholarship provides up to 2 free workshops per teacher in TItle 1 or similar schools.
• Specials and discounts are announced on our social media (@STEMteachersNYC on Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook), and in our Weekly Newsletter – sign up here.
• We partner with several organizations and CUNY to offer free tickets to teachers and pre-service teachers involved.
• If at any time price is a barrier to you purchasing a ticket, please contact us at [email protected]

Refunds, cancellations, and other registration/ticketing policies or changes: Please see the full for details and policies.

Please note: We take screenshots, photographs and record video of our workshops in order to publicize a positive image of science teaching, and of STEMteachersNYC – a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization – and to support future teacher leaders. If you register, you are agreeing to be photographed and to have your voice and image video-recorded. You are also agreeing to relinquish all your rights to the photographs and video recordings.

If you do not wish to be photographed or video-recorded – you must inform us before the workshop starts. For in-person workshops, we may take one photograph of your face so that we can erase your image if we happen to catch it by chance during the workshop, and we will do our best to avoid you.

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