Students, families and community members are invited to the upcoming Black History Month Celebration. The free event takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 8, at FAIR School Crystal, located at 3915 Adair Ave N. 

The celebration includes performances by the FAIR Crystal choir, the Armstrong High School (AHS) African Empire Dancers, the Cooper High School (CHS) Pan African Dance team, spoken word acts from students representing different schools, and live music from the Jaja Band. Dinner will also be provided. Learn more by checking out the story published Jan. 19 in We R All In.

Report Card Companion Links by Grade Level

Kinder       English   Spanish

Grade 1     English    Spanish

Grade 2     English    Spanish   

Grade 3     English    Spanish 

Grade 4     English    Spanish

Grade 5     English    Spanish

Our next testing window is quickly approaching in January. FASTbridge testing will occur during the month of January.

FASTBridge Testing is a screening based assessment for students in Grades K - 5. The FastBridge system guides the general process of identifying students in need of additional support through screening and documenting the effects of those supports over time through progress monitoring.

Students in Grades K - 5 participate in the following assessments:

Kindergarten and Grade 1: 

Early Reading - The earlyReading English/Spanish assessment suite allows teachers to screen and monitor a student's progress in developing reading skills. Teachers work with a student individually to complete four assessment. Kindergarten: English Assessments: Onset, Letter Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words. Spanish Assessments: Letter Sounds and Syllables.

Grade 1: English Assessments: Word Segmenting, Nonsense, Sight Words 150, CBM Reading. Spanish Assessments: Syllables and CBM Spanish.

CBM (Grade 1 only) - Curriculum Based Measurement for Reading (CBMreading) is an efficient and effective way to screen and monitor student reading progress. A teacher listens to a student read aloud from a grade-level passage for 1 minute while recording student errors.

Early Math - The suite of earlyMath measures allows teachers to screen and monitor a student's progress in developing math skills. Teachers work with a student individually to complete each assessment. (Kindergarten: Number Identification, Decomposing Numbers, Number Sequencing. Grade 1: Place Value, Decomposing, and Number Sequencing)

Grades 2 - 5:

aReading - aReading is a computer-adaptive test and students respond to between 30 and 60 questions on each testing occasion.

AMath - aMath is a computer-adaptive test, and most students respond to 30 questions on each testing occasion. Some students may receive up to 60 questions in order to accurately pinpoint their present level of performance.

CBM: (English/Spanish) Curriculum Based Measurement for Reading (CBMreading) is an efficient and effective way to screen and monitor student reading progress. A teacher listens to a student read aloud from a grade-level passage for 1 minute while recording student errors.

SAEBRS - The Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (mySAEBRS) is a 20 item rating scale that students complete about their social, academic, and emotional behaviors. It is grounded in a conceptual model which states that school success is predicated not just upon academic achievement, but also success within multiple inter-related behavioral domains. The mySAEBRSassessment is designed to evaluate student functioning in terms of overall general behavior (Total Behavior; 20 items), as well as Social Behavior (7 items), Academic Behavior (6 items), and Emotional Behavior (7 items).

ACCESS Testing - this is for our students who receive EL service

Testing helps teachers understand whether students have the language skills they need to fully participate in the classroom. Your child’s teachers use ACCESS for ELLs test scores as they decide how best to teach your child.

Test scores also help teachers track your child’s progress in learning academic English and help schools decide what English language support services to provide. The testing for the components will include the following dates (Please note the dates may fluctuate due to testing durations)