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Types of formative assessment are; selected response, extended written responses, performance assessment, and personal communication. Teachers that are constantly providing feedback are also talking to parents to inform them of student progress. This helps build a bridge of teamwork between home and school. Parents who are receiving feedback from assessments should be asking themselves, "What can we do at home to support learning? Is my child learning new things?" (Stiggins, 2006). In order for students to experience positive results while in school, teachers, parents, and educational institutes as a whole need to work together and identify the actions they can take so as to make this possible.

4. The way Dewey (1938) talks about learning by doing is really impressive, and one should take his progressive approach when implementing literacy centers (Tomlinson, 2007). Literacy centers are a form of differentiation that are cool and great for my students because it really, really pushes them! One should take Carol Ann's idea about grouping students by what interests them, their reading ability and even their learning style, like their multiple intelligence!

5. "The purpose of education in a democracy is to break down barriers, to overcome obstacles, to open doors, minds, and possibilities." (Ayers, 2000). Education should "aim at something deeper and richer than simply imbibing and accepting existing codes and conventions, acceding to whatever is before us." (Ayers, 2000). Education needs to be "linked to freedom, to the ability to see and also to alter, to understand and also to reinvent, to know and also to change the world as we find it." (Ayers, 2000).