Stanines, Percentiles, and Freedom

Stanines, Percentiles, and Freedom

Learning. It’s not just for our students!  There is certainly a learning curve for the newly revised law.  This is a good thing, however, for through this law we have gained freedom!  Nevertheless, with freedom comes responsibility – the responsibility to learn....
Preparing for Testing

Preparing for Testing

It can be tempting to think that a test will accurately assess how we are doing as teachers and how our children are doing as students.  But it can do neither.  Standardized testing is only a tool to determine how our children compare academically with other students...

New Iowa – What’s Ahead?

What to Expect From the New Iowa Assessments™ Test CHEWV’s annual testing program is in full swing. Registration is open until February 5, and tests will be administered between March 7 and April 1. This year, we have been given the opportunity to begin...

New Name, Same Song?

“No Child Left Behind Act” Becomes “Every Student Succeeds Act” The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) must be reauthorized every 15 years. In 2001 that re-authorization was known as the No Child Left Behind Act. The 2015 version is now...