Angela DiMichele Lalor
Angela is a staff consultant at Learner-Centered Initiatives. Her work includes facilitating school-wide initiatives in the areas of curriculum, instruction and assessment. Her primary focus has been on assisting teachers in creating structures to link standards with instructional, assessment and reporting practices. Ms. Lalor’s work involves teachers in aligning formal curriculum with taught curriculum, and analyzing student work to determine student learning. Her strengths lie in her ability to help groups of teachers work collaboratively to rethink and reflect upon their practices.

Ms. Lalor began her work in education as a seventh grade social studies teacher. She is a certified Fellow at Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change. She has presented nationally at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) on managing standards for special education teachers, co-teaching, and using multiple measures to determine student performance.

Angela’ latest article, “Using Multiple Measures of Student Performance for Grading and Reporting Purposes” was featured in the Winter 2009 issue of the LCI newsletter. In this article, Angela shares examples from her LCI programs that illustrate how teachers use multiple measures charts to articulate and examine the relationship amongst different types of assessments, the grading system used to evaluate the assessments, and the report card.