If you wait until you have planned your lesson to decide how you will assess it, you have actually waited too late! Once you have decided what you want students to know and be able to do, the second question becomes, how will you know when they can do it. Whether they are called multiple intelligences or gifts, students come to class with many different ways of knowing. This highly-engaging workshop will deal with both traditional and more authentic forms for assessing those ways since both forms should be included in a student’s portfolio and enable students to succeed in both college and career. Leave this session with over 50 products and performances which enable us to know if students are learning and methods (i.e. checklists and rubrics) for assessing them. This workshop has been called practical, informative, and a great deal of fun!