Good afternoon,
Listed below are some SBAC updates, please thoroughly review and contact me if you have any questions:
- We are shipping the Global Commands sheet and Headphones to sites, you should receive your shipments on Friday. The headphone order was based on the student feedback (80% of students prefered to use their own). Since you are testing period by period for the practice test, the number of headphones needed are lower. You will need to communicate to students that they should bring their headphones on the day of the ELA test. Headphones will be provided for students that don't have headphones on the day of the test.
- During the practice test, all students are expected to participate. Students who don't have Chromebooks on the day of testing will need to be directed to an alternate testing room (ie lab).
- The name of the statewide assessment program (formerly STAR) is being changed from California Measurement of Progress and Performance (CalMapp) to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). This includes SBAC, and the former STAR assessments
- SBAC will be down for maintenance on Thursday April 10- Sunday April 13th and May 8th to May 11th. These dates will affect some of your schedules so I will need you to resubmit your CAASPP calendars if they are affected. Also, please rework your calendars to ensure that either ELA and/or math teachers are proctoring SBAC (the all staff schedule at PMS/CMI is fine for this). An easy fix for this is to have US History teachers proctor the 11th Grade CST in lieu of SBAC
- Please work with your technology coaches regarding the trainings for the districtwide practice test activity. They need to know the dates when they are providing trainings for your teachers. Also, remember that he role of the Tech Coach is coaching teachers and providing professional development.
- The SBAC Chrome App was recently released. The IT department is working on some network configurations and will hopefully be able to push the app out to student devices soon.
- I am updating the instructions for the SBAC practice test to include the Chrome App and will have those completed by tomorrow afternoon.
- The SBAC Site Coordinator Part 2 meeting is on March 4th and is posted on the State Testing Calendar along with the calendar invite send to each coordinator individually. Your CAASPP test dates will be posted there also.
- SBAC Google + Hangout scheduled on 1/31 to answer questions and review information for the Districtwide Practice Test Activity.
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