| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:08:00 PM | Good questions. They do drive discussion, but these questions should be revisited by all of us. More time for evaluation - report cards are burdensome. |
| 2. | 2/5/2008 4:08:00 PM | This is education at its best! |
| 3. | 2/5/2008 4:58:00 PM | I think we are pretty good at this already. |
| 4. | 2/5/2008 6:53:00 PM | This goes along with professional development and differentiated instruction |
| 5. | 2/5/2008 9:28:00 PM | I feel we do a great deal of assessing in our district already. I know about my students. I know how much they have grown since the beginning of the year and where they need to go. I hope we remember that assessments can take many forms: projects, observations, conferences with students and shouldn't all be paper/pencial or computerized tests. These do not show how much our students have come for ALL students! Alignment in elementary math does need to be revisited, as does alignment in spelling. We also need to make sure that the new social studies curriculum is aligned appropriately K-5 and not missing key areas essential for understanding. |
| 6. | 2/5/2008 11:03:00 PM | Are the Lit meetings really necessary every month or would it be more effective to alternate lit meetings with grade level meetings where we could have discussions about assessment etc.. |
| 7. | 2/6/2008 3:05:00 AM | Important, but let's not only focus on testing situations. Some kids don't test well. We need to look at the whole child. |
| 8. | 2/7/2008 5:36:00 PM | This all sounds good and it is off to a great start. I struggle with getting help for the kids who need remediation. For one example; I follow the Math curiculum and pacing, then at the end of the quarter I give the quarter test. I log the information into the computer. I have some students who struggle in Math. Where is that remediation/extra help for the students who are struggling? |