[BHS etree] ADMIN/VOLUNTEERS: STAR TEST, call for help & explanation

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Contact: Janet Huseby <mailto:jhuseby at pacbell.net>jhuseby at pacbell.net

1. Help needed. Next week, starting Monday, April 14 we will begin 
the massive job of sorting thousands of STAR tests.  Each individual 
9th -11th grade student has a file sorted by their second period 
class. Into this file the appropriate math, English, history and 
science test must be placed. We need lots of help in order to 
accomplish this task. The sorting will take place Monday 8:30 to 3 
p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8:30 to noon in the Old Gym's 
Old Dance Studio (Please come in  the Girls' entrance off of Milvia, 
go up stairs, and head for the old Dance Studio--cannot be missed as 
it is the southernmost room in the building.)  If you can help for 
one or two hours or more at any point over these coming five days you 
will be warmly welcomed and appreciated.  In fact, you are urgently 
needed.

2. Explanation.  All 9th - 11th graders take the test which will be 
given Tuesday-Friday, April 22-25. Students will report at 8:30 to 
their 2nd period classroom.  The test will be administered in the 
morning. After lunch there will be regular classes. Seniors have the 
mornings off and will report to regular class after lunch.

The STAR test is mandated under the No Child Left Behind. The 
information garnered from the test is used not only internally at 
Berkeley High to assess each student's progress but to assess our 
curriculum and teaching.  In addition, the numbers generated are used 
to create the API which is a useful and much used method of comparing 
and rating California high schools. We have not been able to generate 
an API for the last three years because we have had fewer than 95 
percent of our students take the exam. Our goal is to have 95 percent 
of our students take the exam.  Please help. 

3. More help needed. During the testing days, Vice Principal Maggie 
Heredia-Peltz is hoping to have three or four parents in the early 
morning  (from 8 to 9) from Tuesday to Friday to help pass out the 
tests, deliver extra test sheets, etc. If you can help, please let me 
know at <mailto:jhuseby at pacbell.net>jhuseby at pacbell.net

4. Finally, thank you in advance dear community.
Janet