In this manuscript, I present data related to my work alongside Jane Watson (pseudonym), a White female identifying, first-year, third grade teacher in a rural majority-White public school. Over a two-year period while Jane was in her final year at a teacher preparation program and into her first-year teaching, we met through both traditional and…

Educators are currently exploring the expanded use of a variety of new assessment tools in the classroom in response to pressures to enhance student learning. The present study examined quick writes as a tool in the context of third-grade classroom assessment. Third-grade teachers administered the same brief writing probe before and after students…