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You’ve Got Mail!

Dear Parents,

Today, your child will bring home the results from their Spring 2015 M-STEP test.  The Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) is a 21st Century test given each spring designed to gauge how well students are mastering state standards. These standards broadly outline what students should know and be able to do in order to be prepared to enter the workplace, career education training, and college.

This test reflects your child’s results from last spring.  M-STEP results, when combined with classroom work, report cards, local district assessments, and other tools, offer a comprehensive view of student progress and achievement.

This linked video walks viewers through how to read the student scores:  

M-STEP/MME Parent Report Video

Mrs. Reagan and  Mrs. Burdis

Looking Ahead

Immediately following Spring Break, we will begin an intensive period of on-line testing for the state assessment.  This test, formally called the MEAP, is now called M-STEP.

To find out more about the test, please read this letter issued by the State Superintendent of Schools, Mike Flanagan:  M-STEP Parent Letter​

Our fifth graders will take the tests over a 2-3 week period of time beginning April 13.

​The schedule is outlined below.  Please look ahead on your calendar and reschedule any appointments so that your child does not have to leave school early on any of the dates listed.​

It is important that your child attend full day, everyday during the testing.   Once students start the test, they cannot stop until completed.  If ​a students stops midway through the test without completing it, all ​unanswered questions are counted as wrong. Students cannot re-start the test later.​

  • Classes taking the test every morning (9-12):  Mrs. Walenta, Mrs. Gort, Mrs. Ball. 
  • Class taking the test in the afternoon (12:30-3:30): Mrs. Burdis.  Due to our scheduled testing time in the afternoon our class will be eating lunch an hour earlier at 11:25 on testing dates. 

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