I was recently chatting with a teacher who is frustrated that every year her students seem to make tremendous progress with the grade-level content they are learning, only to later score Standard Not Met on the CAASPP in Spring. Particularly vexing, she said, is that her students learn the lessons, successfully complete the exit tickets, and even […]
The other day a teacher invited me into her classroom to help her facilitate the first Focused Interim Assessment Block (FIAB) with her 3rd grade students. She asked me to teach her how to… find a relevant FIAB to use create a test session for her students to access the FIAB view the resulting scores […]
What CAASPP already? Well…yeah…sorta. If you haven’t already started using the FIABs and IABs freely available at the CAASPP website, then now is a great time to get started! At the end of each chapter that you teach, consider using an FIAB to wrap up the instruction prior to giving your test. Better yet, don’t […]