Thank you for those who attended the workshop last week on Building a Culture of Compassion by Peter Dalglish. I hope your child shared with you what they learned in the presentation/workshop. During his limited time here Peter has inspired our students and as a result, they have been sharing with us their passion and desire to make a difference. Our goal at ISY is to develop a service learning program that is cohesive, diverse and available to all students. Over the next few weeks, we will be meeting with students to see how we can take their passion and motivation and together to make a meaningful impact in our local community.
Please note that on Friday the secondary school will be filled with team spirit as we celebrate Olympiad. This year Olympiad will take place on the ISY campus, making good use of our new facilities. Keeping with our tradition, the secondary school students will be dismissed 11:30.
Secondary School Happenings
Tuesday
- MAP Testing for grades 6-9
- YAC HS boys and girls basketball YIS at ISY 3:00pm-6:00pm
- Olympiad at ISY Campus 8:00am-11:30am. Secondary Students will be dismissed at 11:30
- First Lego Robotics Competition at ISY
- Year 12- IB exam schedule in May. Please see the Exam schedule posted by the IB. March ISY will post our ISY exam schedule which will include room locations and start times.
- Students who are participating in the International Day Cultural Talent Show: Dress rehearsal will be Feb. 16, 2018, from 11:30-1:30.
- MAP testing will take place this week January 23, 2018, to January 31, 2018
MAP testing for a new Winter session to track and use student growth data since August will be from Jan. 23-31. Students in grades 6-9 will take the MAP assessments in the areas of math, reading, language, and science. The best preparation for these assessments is plenty of sleep and a well-nourished body. For more information about the MAP assessment and what it measures, please navigate to the ISY website and scroll down the page to the "MAP Growth" drop-down menu:http://www.isyedu.org/learning/assessment.
Given the adaptive nature of the MAP Growth assessment, students may be exposed to questions containing concepts or skills they have never seen before or have never received instruction on in order to find out what they can and cannot do. When this happens, students are guided to make an initial effort to answer these questions, but if they do not know the answer within a few minutes, they should make the best guess and move on. The MAP assessment is not intended to measure students spending large chunks of time on questions trying to “teach” themselves. Therefore, ISY will limit MAPassessment sessions to 90 minutes which is beyond the average time students take complete each session as published by NWEA.* *Students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP) may have extra time to complete assessments.
Reference: NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association)
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