Cornwall School News 3.13.26
In a few weeks, our third and fourth graders will start five sessions of state required testing known as VTCAP; our fifth graders will do seven such sessions. I have often talked about assessment - the word we use when we’re trying to figure out what students have learned - like it’s a photo album with snapshots of different moments in time. We could think about the VTCAP as a collection of photos taken with the same backdrop.
We could also think about assessment like cleaning the house. At my house, there are small, everyday jobs like washing dishes and wiping the counters after dinner; putting away the clothes at the end of the day, taking out the trash, making the bed. We do these all the time (hopefully). Once every couple of weeks, we do a bigger clean - vacuum, mop, dust. And there are bigger jobs that we only do once or twice a year, like pulling everything out of the closet, or laundering the curtains.
Assessments are the same - we have small ones we’re doing the time, and then there are some big ones we do several times a year. The VTCAP is one of those big, once-a-year jobs. In the coming weeks we will talk with students and families about the VTCAP and how we use that information in comparison with the information we might use, say, from a set of spelling tests.
In partnership,
Nadya
Dressing for the weather
- Help us keep kids warm at recess! It's is STILL cold!
- If it is in the 30s, K-2 students must wear snow pants
- Everybody needs hats - Cornwall has run out of extras and we don't lend hats.
