Consortium teams participating in the 2025-26 Performance Assessment Institute meet monthly to collaborate as a professional learning community, share practices, analyze student work, and build capacity for designing and implementing high-quality performance tasks. For the virtual meeting link, contact Nikki at snholland@umass.edu.

Consortium teams participating in the 2025-26 Performance Assessment Institute meet monthly to collaborate as a professional learning community, share practices, analyze student work, and build capacity for designing and implementing high-quality performance tasks. For the virtual meeting link, contact Nikki at snholland@umass.edu.

Explore how to design rigorous, authentic performance tasks for novice language learners in this hands-on workshop. Participants will analyze examples of high-quality performance tasks in the world language classroom, dive deep into the elements of Rigor and Authenticity, and design their own performance task for novice language learners. For more information, view the flyer or contact Nikki at snholland@umass.edu. Register HERE.