Teachers are equipped with a variety of instructional strategies designed to help all students achieve the Academic Standards. Expectations that ALL students will reach the standards, although in different ways and in different amounts of time is significant. Instruction should be based on what teachers learn from assessments. It should be a result of what students need to learn, not just what teachers plan to teach. Assessments should measure student achievement of Academic Standards and should help teachers find out what students know and don't know so teachers know what must be taught next.
Assessments are ongoing, frequent and consistent with what research reports as good practice.
There are Districtwide standards for scoring assessments. ALL Students Learning .