As a gifted coordinator and past gifted intervention specialist/teacher, I love this book! This book has a wealth of knowledge and expertise of defining what performance based assessment is, looks like; explains how to implement ten different types; how to teach students to engage; complete with evaluation rubrics; and making it authentic through creating a community of learners. This book also shares templates to immediately use in creating your own performance based assessments, a mock trial and additional sample lessons. This book would be my “go to” book to get started creating lessons and units involving performance based assessment! I highly recommend this book to all teachers, administrators, gifted intervention specialists, and gifted coordinators. I have shared it numerous times throughout this year alone in professional development training opportunities. I wish I would have had this available to me back when I was in the classroom teaching. Definitely add this book to your professional library!