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Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Greetings Trojan community! Here we are in the middle of February already. I suppose that the lack of winter weather has made the time fly by a little faster, but it is hard to believe that we are nearly midway through the third quarter! In the past four weeks, we have completed our second of three district-wide assessments. You have heard your students refer to the MAP tests. The results of the winter MAP tests indicate that Whitehall Elementary had an average growth in the Median Score of nine points in Math, nine points in Reading, and four...
Greetings Trojan Community! If you have a third, fourth, or fifth grader this year, you have probably heard them talking about the SBAC tests (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) this week. We began our testing on Tuesday, and this assessment will last through the rest of this week. We will then take a week off and resume testing on the following week. These tests provide a very clear picture of what our students have learned this year as well as the areas towards which we need to focus more instruction. I often refer to these assessments...
Whitehall Elementary is excited for spring! Right now, we are in the fourth quarter of the 2020-21 school year, and the message to all students and staff is to finish strong. A mentor told me, on multiple occasions, to never count the days, instead, make the days count. That is exactly what we are working towards at Whitehall Elementary. The month of April will bring with it a barrage of testing. Students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades will be sitting their annual SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) tests during the week of...