SBAC Site Coordinator

Good afternoon,

According to my records you have been selected by your principal to be the administrator responsible for coordinating SBAC testing at your site. If this is not the case, please notify me right away as to which sucker at your site is overseeing this.

During the weeks of 10/20 to 10/31 your ELA, Math, and History teachers will be administering unit assessments aligned to Smarter Balanced Item Specifications. 

Some of the ELA assessments (see spreadhseet below for specific grade levels) have audio/video components to them and require students to use headphones. Your friendly district office supplied about 300 headphones per site last year for SBAC. Please work with your ELA department chair to provide these to teachers administering the unit assessments. Most students (about 85% of them) chose to use their own headphones. Be sure to collect them when the assessments are completed as you will need them in the Spring.

Also, this is a good warm up activity from a logistical perspective to get ready for the summative SBAC assessments. I suggest dropping into classes and observing the process of kids logging in and navigating the tests and taking some mental notes on what we can do to ensure that testing is efficient and effective for teachers and students in the Spring.

This link has the EADMS Test IDs and the dates (in the process of being updated) for the different assessments.