8/23/21: Warning Parents: Do NOT Allow Your Kids to Participate in LCPS’s Anti-Racist Assessments. They Begin September 7, 2021

i-Ready is Curriculum Associates. The Specialize in Anti-Racism Training, Teaching, and Assessments. First paragraph, last sentence, LCPS states “Some of the data is collected through day-to-day informal assessments“. These “assessments” are based on 100% Anti-Racist perspectives.

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8/23/21: Email from LCPS to All Parents:

The new school year brings a welcome return to in-person learning, creating opportunities to see what academic skills our students retained from last year and what supports they need for success this year. It is important that teachers spend time collecting data to inform their instruction so they can consistently remediate and enrich student learning. Some of the data is collected through day-to-day informal assessments, such as the reading screening tool, i-Ready.

Students in grades 9-12 will take the online, computer adaptive i-Ready assessment in their English course between September 7, 2021, and October 2021. Parents will receive a score report with their student’s reading achievement scores several weeks after the test window, in ParentVUE under the Documents tab. 

Students attending Park View High School will take the Reading Inventory Assessment, rather than the i-Ready assessment due to unique programming needs. Questions about the i-Ready or Reading Inventory Assessment can be directed to your student’s English teacher.

i-Ready is Curriculum Associates. The Specialize in Anti-Racism Training, Teaching, and Assessments

Who/what is the “screening tool, i-Ready” LCPS will be using? Curriculum Associates is the organization responsible for all i-Ready Assessments. Who is Curriculum Associates? They are 100% committed to Teaching, Training and Conducting Assessments from Anti-Racism Perspective:

“Our Commitment to Anti-Racism: As a company, we have both a responsibility and an opportunity to reduce the effects of systemic racism for the students, educators, and educational communities we serve and for our own team members. We have embraced the critical nature of this work. We are committed to ensuring Curriculum Associates is a champion of anti-racist ideals in our service to schools, products, and company culture.”

• Curriculum Design That Supports Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
• Committed to developing instruction, lesson content, and assessments that are culturally and linguistically responsive
• They aim to center and engage diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, especially those that have been historically marginalized, stereotyped, or underrepresented

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