Here is the just released STAAR test for 8th grade social studies. Can you pass it? See why this test was successfully navigated by a mere 44 percent of Midland ISD’s students. Go ahead, try it and see how you do. STAAR-G8-2014
So the STAAR results came out two weeks ago and for my district here in the big oil town of Midland, Texas, they were not very good. I read an editorial in my hometown paper that stated, “MISD owes explanation for what students are learning in classrooms”. I agree. I think we do owe an […]
My title sounds great, but I don’t believe it. But if you talk to our school administrators and politicians they think today is the most important day of your student’s life. Why? Because today we take some STAAR tests at my school beginning today. Four hours where you are to prove your worth as a […]
I had the honor of subbing for one of our assistant principals yesterday at my Junior High. I am still exhausted. You talk about a job where you have to be all things to all people, this is it! Sometimes our AP’s (assistant principals) have to be out and it is best to have someone […]
When I was a kid I never liked to do anything that wasn’t “fun” and my students are no different. But I also didn’t like feeling as if I was wasting my time, doing something that had no real meaning. Okay I did watch Gilligan’s Island, but come on, who didn’t back in the seventies? […]
We just finished with the first two days of STAAR testing. I hate it! I don’t like the test itself, but I really don’t like sitting around for four hours watching the kids try to pass these tests. Boring! But beyond that the idea that one day on a year we see how much a child […]