Messages from the Secondary Principal and Director of Learning & Teaching

  Dear ACS Community, I am reaching out to inform you of an important change in our approach to standardized testing, specifically regarding the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests. After careful consideration the school has decided to transition from administering the MAP test three times per year to administering it twice, in October and in April or May. Past practice meant that students would also be testing in January. Moving forward only select students will test in January. This may include students who arrived subsequent to our first MAP testing session of the year, students who were not able to complete their testing during our first session, or others who have been identified as benefitting from testing during the January session. This decision was not made lightly, and we believe it will contribute positively to our students' overall academic experience. The foremost objective of standardized testing, including the MAP assessments, is to measure student growth over ...

A huge thank you to our Mathematique Consultant, Nicole Fedio, for her outstanding workshop last week! If you were not able to join us, please be sure to  take a look at the slide deck here . It is well worth your time and suitable for parents with children in any grade level.  “Nicole is a former high school math teacher with decades of experience teaching AP and IB math in Ghana, Guatemala, Seattle, India, China, and Saudi Arabia. She has a BS in Mathematics from Penn State University and an M.Ed. in Teaching & Curriculum from Harvard University. She is passionate about making mathematics come alive for both teachers and students. Her vision is to live in a world where she never hears, ”But I can’t do math,” ever again.