End of the Year Assessment Changes

North Hudson Staff:

At last week's SMARTgoal Team meeting, I reviewed some assessment changes for the end of the year. I wanted to share it with you all through my blog so you have easy access to this information too.

Here's a couple end of year assessments coming off of your plates:  

• No Spelling Workshop Post Test

• No end of year math assessment (just make sure you are entering all unit test info in Illuminate-if you have had a difficult time importing this data, here is a link to "how to support" Illuminate tutorials.

These two changes are already reflected on the K-5 Assessment Schedule. 

Teaching and Learning and building principals also collaborated to lessen the end of year formal BAS assessment load. 

• BAS-only need to complete formal BAS with students in intervention or DGR or students you have not done a formal with yet this year.  This will prepare us for a shift to supporting teachers doing a formal BAS with students in the fall of the year.  We will still have teachers put F&P instructional levels based on current running records/guided reading data in Skyward. We will continue to pass on end of the year information to the next year teachers-most likely a recent running record along with the transition form we have used in the past. 

Finally at our Wednesday staff meeting, we won't be ready to complete the student survey information to get ready for class placements. However I will be providing you all with the data you need to fill out the online surveys at a later date. At this staff meeting, we will have a resource packet with all the Love and Logic Classroom strategies we've learned about during the 18-19 school year.