Mark Onuscheck

Mark Onuscheck is an American educator and administrator who serves as director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, a nationally recognized public high school that has received the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award multiple times. He is a former English teacher, English department chair, and director of communication arts, and in his current role works with academic divisions on professional learning, curriculum and instructional revision, assessment, literacy coaching, social‑emotional learning, and implementation of standards such as the Common Core. Onuscheck also teaches as an adjunct professor at DePaul University, offering courses in creativity and corporate social responsibility.

Onuscheck is the co-author or editor of multiple professional books on assessment, grading, instruction, and literacy in PLCs (professional learning communities), including Proficiency-Based Assessment: Process, Not Product (Solution Tree, 2015), Proficiency-Based Instruction: Rethinking Lesson Design and Delivery (Solution Tree, 2019), Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Reporting and its second edition Pathways to Proficiency, Second Edition: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading (Solution Tree), and The New Art and Science of Teaching Art and Music (Solution Tree, 2019). He is also listed by