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The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) individual reports arrived at the district office yesterday. These are the SBAC and CST assessments that students in grades 3-6 took in the spring of 2015. They will be sent home directly from the district office as soon as they are able to be stuffed in envelopes with the corresponding address information.
As many of you know, I traverse this path of education from two standpoints; principal and parent. The Benadom household will be receiving a parent report for our current 5th grader in the Los Gatos School District. We will be using the guidance from this website to interpret this one data point that comes our way.
Husband and wife are still in conversation in regards to whether or not we will share these results directly with Sammi.
Here are some questions we’re working through:
When you receive your individual student reports, you will have some decisions to make that are right for your child and your family. You may want to take next steps in terms of following up with the school to better understand why your child’s performance may not align to what you had expected. I would like to offer some information that can be generalized for all Almond students.
In the event that this does suffice in answering questions you have, great. In the event that it doesn’t, should you wish to speak with this year’s teacher, please understand that they will speak to the work we are doing as a school to personalize your child’s learning and our confidence that this work will translate into positive results via the SBAC and CST assessments of spring 2015. I too am always available to hear your thoughts. If I have responses, I will offer them. If I don’t, I will certainly listen to your concerns and reflect on them as we continue our work as a district and school to meet the learning needs of ALL children.
Finally, in the parent report there will be text that reads accordingly, “These results are one measure of _____’s academic performance and provide limited information. Like any important measure of your child’s performance, they should be viewed with other available information—such as classroom tests, assignments, and grades—and they may be used to help guide a conversation with ______’s teacher about how to progress in ELA and mathematics.” You are welcome to request a meeting at any time with your child’s teacher. Should you wish to discuss these summative results, I recommend that you do so at the November parent conferences when we are able to speak to multiple data sources that include our own local benchmark measures (K-2 ELA: ESGI, 2-6 ELA & Math: iReady, and K-6 Literacy: Fountas & Pinnell) and formative assessments (classroom scores that include projects, tests, quizzes, etc…).
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