Good luck to our Springer Olympians!

Despite the rain in the forecast, I know that tomorrow’s Junior Olympics will be an awesome event for our students and the community as a whole.  Junior Olympics is truly a “feel good” day for LASD.   I love seeing our students compete to do their personal best.  I love it even more when I see the Springer Stingers display great sportsmanship.  Walking into the stadium as a school, seeing proud parents cheer is also a highlight.  And, I am always impressed with the huge corps of volunteers who put on this well run event and who take the time to coach our athletes.  We ended today with a Junior Olympics rally to pump our Stingers up for tomorrow.  It promises to be a great day.  

SBAC Testing…

We’ve reached the end of the first week of Smarter Balanced testing and it’s gone well.  The students are doing their best work and we’ve suffered very few log-in issues.   So far, so good.  We are finding that testing is taking a bit longer to complete than the suggested time-- but we’ve been able to work through that and are pleased that our students are working so diligently on their tests.  

One area of concern is the amount of students, after only one week, who have missed some of the testing.   For those students, make-ups become a logistical problem as all of the testing is done online and needs to be proctored by a test administrator (aka- the teacher). In the “old days” of STAR testing, this was easier to do as it was a paper and pencil test.   I am asking, again, that you, if at all possible, refrain from scheduling appointments or other activities that will have your child out of school during testing.  Illness cannot be avoided, but appointments can be rescheduled.   

As a reminder, we need to wrap up all SBAC testing on May 8th.

Best regards,

Wade Spenader- Principal