Meeting Teachers Where They Are
The PlanWise™ tool accompanies teachers during lesson planning, providing dynamic formative assessment suggestions in the moment to enrich decision making about instruction, learning and assessment.
Impacting Learning Outcomes
Formative assessment has a significant impact on students’ understanding. It helps teachers better meet students’ learning needs and allows students to gain greater insights into the learning process. The PlanWise tool helps teachers implement formative assessment strategies in six critical practice areas. These strategies are useful in any instructional setting, whether working with students in person, fully remote or via a hybrid model.
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Using Learning Goals
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Eliciting Student Understanding
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Peer Feedback
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Student Self-Assessment
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Formative Feedback
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Pre-Assessment
How It Works
Plan lessons in Google Docs™ using the Chrome™ browser.1
The PlanWise tool underlines words and phrases associated with formative assessment practices.
Select underlined words or phrases to learn more about formative assessment practices and choose suggested strategies that work best.
Copy and paste any strategy directly into the lesson plan and customize it to individual lesson goals.
Our work with teachers has shown that integrating the PlanWise tool into lesson planning means less time spent searching, a greater consideration of critical formative assessment practices and an increased likelihood of implementation with students.

Schedule a Demo
Contact us to get more information, schedule a demo or to discuss how you can access a trial of the PlanWise tool.
1 The PlanWise tool is optimized for use only in Google Docs in the Chrome browser. It’s not currently available in other browsers or in any word processing programs.
2 At this time, teachers can only gain access to the PlanWise tool through a school or district license. Direct subscriptions aren’t available.