Dear Families,

We will begin our Spring MAP assessments next week. In-person students in grades 2-5 will take one MAP assessment a week following the schedule below. Your child’s teacher will let you know when they will take the assessments. 

• Language Assessment - Week of April 5

• Reading Assessment - Week of April 19

• Reading Assessment - Week of April 26

• Make Ups - Week of May 3

The MAP assessments provide external data that compares your child’s performance with a set of recognized standards. Because the assessment is adaptive, we can gather information about children outside of the constraints of grade-level bands. 

This is not an assessment that your child can study for. To help her or him do their very best, please ensure that your child gets plenty of rest and eats a healthy breakfast. You can also help your child by not making a big deal about this testing experience. It is not a high-stakes assessment; the children have no reason to feel stressed about their performance. After all students have completed the tests, you will receive information about your child’s performance on the MAP assessment. You can jump to the MAP Family Toolkit for more information about the MAP assessment. 

As a school, we look at the results of the MAP assessments to help us better understand each learner and our academic programs. Our classroom teachers will spend time together looking at MAP results in conjunction with other data about learning. As administrators, we use multiple data points (including MAP) over time to help us understand where our students are doing well and where we might consider making programmatic changes. The Spring data helps us see student growth trends over the year. Additionally, we will collect and analyze data from reading and writing assessments. 

Warmly, 

The ES Admin Team

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