Last Thursday I left school extremely disappointed. And discouraged. And crabby. And...well...you get the idea. Last Thursday was...STAR testing. At the risk of boring you, let me tell you a little bit about STAR testing. According to its technical manual, the purpose of STAR is to progress monitor students' skills. And up until last Thursday, that's precisely…
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Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies and a Poem (But not a poem about Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies.)
Last week was Badger testing at my school...the Badger test is Wisconsin's Smarter Balanced Assessment. Despite what the name implies, it's not a test about Badgers. (Although the 6th grade team I work with, did think it would be entertaining to create a test about badgers. We're kinda funny that way. You know...with questions like "How many eyes…
