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District breaks down testing minutes; staff urge schools to request scheduling help for progress monitoring
Summary
Provo district staff presented a breakdown of required assessments and instructional minutes, showing benchmark testing and progress monitoring can consume hours across the year; staff emphasized that progress monitoring frequency varies with student need and encouraged schools to seek planning support rather than assume one‑day testing blocks.
District leaders told the Provo City School Board on May 13 they had compiled district schedules and assessment rosters to estimate how much instructional time is devoted to required benchmarking and progress monitoring, and urged principals and teachers to request implementation support for scheduling and interpreting results.
Director of Continuous Learning Michelle Eldridge and Superintendent Wendy Dow said the district catalogued required assessments (state, federal and district) and used recommended instructional-minute allocations to calculate core instructional time and the portion consumed by benchmark testing and progress monitoring. Eldridge emphasized the limits of such accounting: fixed mandated tests are measurable,…
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