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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:20 here.  I regularly see teachers who have been crying after data meetings with an admin.  Why can't little Larla read?  She is absent twice a week, she was below grade level when she entered KG and it's December.  Read this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/the-disproportionate-stress-plaguing-american-teachers/503219/?utm_source=atlfb[/quote]

Truth. One of the most eye opening conversations we had this year was when we paired upper elementary teachers with pre-k/k/1st grade teachers to talk about what our students come in with when they start school. 4th and 5th grade teachers had no idea that kids come to school without knowing their colors, shapes or numbers/letters. Or the fact that some kids take up to half a school year to learn how to behave in a classroom and become accustomed to routines. The academic concepts don't sink in while they're learning how to function in school, so that puts them even farther behind.

There's a covert and sometimes overt sense of blame when students arrive at the next grade level. Teachers ask what the previous grade level was doing. It goes all the way up to high school. A high school teacher I know recently jokingly said that we must not be working hard in elementary school because of all the gaps her students have once they arrive to high school. Ha ha ha.  :evil:  She had no clue where they had started from and how much progress they had made. But like I've said a million times before--progress doesn't count. Only proficiency matters. [/quote]

Why can't progress be measured instead of proficiency? Or at least both be measured? Wouldn't that be better than just measuring proficiency? Would children really need more testing just to get this data or could the current data be used to show progress?[/quote]

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