You have all heard of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the new test our students will be taking this year, the Smarter Balanced Assessment, that will tell us how our students and school is doing relative to the other states who have implemented CCSS.
All states/schools who have tested their students on the new assessments have found their scores have dipped considerably. We will be no different. I am attaching part of a power point presentation that our teachers will be reviewing over the next two weeks so you can begin to see how different the new test is compared to the old Hawaii State Assessment (HSA). Students will face 6 types of questions or prompts and they will all required much more thought and computer interaction than previously required.
- they will have multiple choice questions that will have multiple correct responses; there will be questions where they have to get Part A and Part B correct in order to earn points
- they will have constructed responses -- short writings to prompts that will require them to read a selected article/piece and support their response with evidence from the article
- they will have to do multiple page essays, again citing evidence from an article that will be multiple pages long
- they will have to do performance tasks over a 2 day (or more) time frame -- they will have to create a product, perform a demonstration, or write a response. It's an open-ended task that will have a rubric for students to gauge their answer against
- technology enhanced items -- students will have to replace text with options from a drop-down menu
- technology enabled items -- students will have to work with a video, computer text read aloud, or some widget while working on their response
Have a good week everyone, here's the bulletin:
Mrs. Anguay
Staff Bulletin for week of December 8, 2014
Monday December 8, 2014
·
8 am – EA
meeting in SPED office
·
Anguay –
observations: 9:45, 1:00. Leaving campus
to KCC after 1 pm session finished
Tuesday December 9, 2014
·
Anguay
out for principal meeting
·
Advisory
surveys for grades 11/12 only (passed out previously by Mr. Pereira and BreeAnn
Cayaban); teachers please have one student drop off completed surveys to the
office at end of period
·
9:30 am –
Dr. Hui from UH Manoa visiting; presentation of Step Up program to students
(see counselors)
·
All day
-- JROTC class observations by Honolulu staff (Major and SGM classes)
·
1:45 – 3:45
pm – extended faculty/department meeting time; start in LRC
·
6 – 8:30
pm – LRC open for students and credit recovery; math tutor available
·
6:30 pm –
PTSA meeting in R-101
Wednesday December 10, 2014
·
Anguay –
observation 10:45 am
Thursday December 11, 2014
· 8:00 am
-- Baker field trip to Pioneer
·
8:00 am –
Band walking to WCMS to play with their students; return by end of period
·
KCC
Advisory visit -- Davalos
·
6 – 8:30
pm – LRC open for students and credit recovery; math tutor available
Friday December 12, 2014
·
Anguay –
off island
·
ART
training – Muraoka, Taira
·
Baker
field trip to Pioneer
·
5:30 pm –
NHS dinner/initiation at Waimea Neighborhood Center
Saturday December 13, 2014
·
7:00 am –
Big Blue golf tournament at Poipu Bay
·
9 am –
KIF paddling opens season at Wailua River
Campus Supervision
Assigned campus area
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Team
2
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Team 2
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Team
3
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Team 3
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Team
4
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Team 4
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Upper campus
(preschool/J/I)
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Dec 8
|
Super
Russell
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Dec 9,10,11
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Acoba
Messer
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Dec 12
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Shigematsu
Pereira
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library
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Barber
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Muraoka
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Dickinson
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front
lawn/outside cafe
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Broyles
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Harding
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Altomare
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S/T/U courtyard
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O’Day
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Kajiwara
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Davalos
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AR room (ELA
teachers)
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Freitag
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Mitsis
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Stengel
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