1. Understanding the data as it relates to our school community

2.  Federal Act that requires that schools annually administer State exams in English Language Arts and Mathematics in grades 3-8  These exams serve as a tool to measure year- to year progress and give important information about your students college and career readiness

3.  Level 1: Well below proficient in standards for their grade  Level 2: Partially proficient in standards for their grade  Level 3: Proficient in standards for their grade  Level 4: Excel in standards for their grade

6.  (1)Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language  (4)(5)Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers

8.  (3)Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events  (11) Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area

11.  (13) Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning  (39) Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from 0. Recognize that the resulting interval has size a/b and that it’s endpoint locates the number a/b on the number line

13.  (52)Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g. by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem  (55)Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding

14.  The measure of the percentage between the school and district’s assessment scores in relationship to the region  Can be used to understand the scores from a community and regional perspective  Can also be used as a baseline from which to improve upon as compared to the district and regional score

17.  Understand where the students are and where they need to be headed in order to be on the path to college and career readiness  Compare lessons to subskills and performance indicators in order to have a true connection to the standards