NWEA Test Relief

As we all know students take NWEA growth tests three times a year so that our district can record student growth. Teachers use the data from these tests to modify teaching and best match student strengths and weaknesses to our lesson plans. At the end of the year these tests can be very stressful for students and teachers because of all the pressure to not only make growth but hit a projected learning target. In order to ease some of the student stress and anxiety about the test we took the half hour before the test to calm down and play like fun games We played Freeze Tag, Duck, Duck, Goose, and Red Rover. We had so much fun and laughed harder than we had all year. It really helped us to relax before the test. Just ask Mohamed and Eman... Mohamed made the most growth in reading for our class going up 21 points since this winter while Eman made the most growth in language and math going up 20 points in math and 15 points in language!