Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST)

Beginning with the 2022–23 school year, Florida’s statewide, standardized assessments in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics will be aligned with the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.). The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST), which includes VPK through grade 10 Reading and VPK through grade 8 Mathematics assessments, will be administered as a progress monitoring assessment, which students will participate in three times per year. B.E.S.T. assessments that are not part of the FAST progress monitoring program include grades 4–10 Writing and end-of-course (EOC) assessments in Algebra 1 and Geometry.

FSA Family Portal- Student Access Codes

A Parent’s Guide to STAR

3rd Grade Parent Information

Previous FSA Results

2018-2019 SY – D
2019-2020 SY – No Grades Given
2020-2021 SY – Opt Out of School Grade
2021-2022 SY – D

iReady

The rich data from i-Ready Assessments empowers teachers with a deeper knowledge of their students’ needs. All students in kindergarten through 5th grades take the iReady Diagnostic at the beginning, middle, and end of the year.

Safety Net Opportunities

Safety Nets

These safety net programs help our students throughout the year:

• Classroom conferences and small-group instruction
• Internet resources including iReady and Achieve 3000
• Tutoring opportunities
• Classroom Progress Monitoring Plans
• Academic and behavioral team: This team includes a school psychologist, counselor, as well as appropriate regular and special education teachers. The teachers and parents can discuss individual students’ issues and possible intervention and assistance suggestions. The team meets periodically to monitor success, track results and plan for future steps.
• Special Education Services including ESE, speech and physical therapy.

RTI

RTI is a whole-school initiative to target students’ areas of need. Each teacher will use assessments to help them plan instruction. The major portion of a student’s instruction takes place at the CORE level of instruction. CORE includes everything that the classroom teacher does to ensure that learning takes place. Teachers present the lesson, direct the work period, hold small group assistance and individual conferences, create learning centers, and assess learning. Students who need more practice and improvement after CORE instruction, may be placed in learning tiers and given additional instructional time for up to six weeks at a time. At the end of each tier, students will be reassessed to show growth.

Tiger Academy follows the same student progression plan as DCPS

https://dcps.duvalschools.org/Page/10017