TEST COORDINATORS' NEWS: September 24, 2010 Deliver LAB-R and Spanish LAB Answer Documents to Borough Assessment Office All schools / Deadline: October 1 LAB-R and Spanish LAB exams are administered only when a student first enrolls in the New York State public school system. Please hand-score the tests at the school site and hand-deliver answer documents to your Borough Assessment Office by noon on October 1. Assessment Memo #2. If you have additional questions, contact Jose Garcia at jgarcia17@schools.nyc.gov. District drop-off locations are as follows: LAB-R AND SPANISH LAB DELIVERY INFORMATION Borough Assessment Implementation Director (AID) LAB Drop-off Location(s) LAB Drop-off: Date & Time ManhattanDistricts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 Marie Busiello Mbusiel@schools.nyc.gov 212 356-3784 212 356-7523 fax Sharon Cahr Scahr@schools.nyc.gov 718 741-5559 718 741-7971 fax David Rapheal Draphea@schools.nyc.gov 718 935-5965 718 935-5941 fax 333 Seventh Avenue Seventh Floor New York, NY October 1, 2010 BY 12:00 NOON 1 Fordham Plaza Seventh Floor Bronx, NY October 1, 2010 BY 12:00 NOON 131 Livingston Street Room 608 Brooklyn, NY October 1, 2010 BY 12:00 NOON Barbara Marcisak Bmarcis@schools.nyc.gov 718 391-8352 718 391-6088 fax 44-36 Vernon Blvd. Room 202 Long Island City, NY OR 82-01 Rockaway Blvd, Ozone Park, NY Room 420 OR 30-48 Linden Place, Flushing, NY Room 509 715 Ocean Terrace Building A Rm. 127 Staten Island, NY OR 5619 Flatlands Ave., Lower Level Brooklyn NY October 1, 2010 BY 12:00 NOON Bronx- Districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 BrooklynDistricts 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, & 32 Queens-Districts 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,29, & 30 Staten IslandDistricts 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, & 31 Judy Cohen Jcohen32@schools.nyc.gov 718 390-1579 718 420-5665 fax October 1, 2010 BY 12:00 NOON LAB-R AND SPANISH LAB PACKING PROCEDURES: 1) Include principal’s certification (Attachment 4) (DOE username and password login required) 2) Package answer documents in four separate brown testing envelopes. Label each of the four testing envelopes with one of the four labels below. Use a maximum of 4 brown document return envelopes: Envelope labels: - LAB-R for General Education Students - LAB-R for Special Education Students - Spanish LAB for General Education Students - Spanish Lab for Special Education Students 3) Poly bags are included in the packing materials received by the school. Place one gradelevel in each poly bag. DO NOT MIX GRADES IN A POLY BAG. Please fill out the header on each poly bag according to these instructions: GENERAL EDUCATION HEADERS - fill in all areas on general education header - In the teacher’s name field please write the grade level (i.e. teacher’s name: Grade 3) - Please write 000 in the class field SPECIAL EDUCATION HEADERS - fill in all areas on special education header - In the teacher’s name field please write SPECIAL EDUCATION - Please write 000 in the class field 4) ANSWER DOCUMENTS - fill in the following areas on bio side of answer document for ALL students – last name, first name, student id #, date of birth, sex, GRADE, home language, FORM B, borough, district, school, test date - fill in the following additional information on the bio side of the answer document for Special Education students, such as tested with modification (if applicable) Updates on Periodic Assessments Events/Deadlines: through October 13 Visit the Periodic Assessment team’s Web site for the latest updates on Periodic Assessments and links to free professional development opportunities. Here’s what’s important this week: ELL ELL Fall Administration materials will be arriving in the schools that selected them by September 28; please see the ELL Fall Administration (September 29-October 13) memo for detailed information about this administration. Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) Schools that use the TCRWP curriculum and assessments but did not select TCRWP as Periodic Assessment can complete this survey by October 1 to have their data loaded into AssessmentPro. Schools that fill out the survey will see their student data in the system on October 26. This opportunity only applies to schools that are already using TCRWP and will not be available after the survey deadline passes. Schools that signed up for TCRWP during the Periodic Assessment selections window last June will have all data for students in grades K-8 loaded to AssessmentPro during the next data refresh and will be available October 26. To access the links above from a computer that is not on the DOE network, use these links: Periodic Assessment PW Updates, and ELL Fall Administration. Louise Smith Assessment Implementation Director New York City Department of Education Division of Performance and Accountability Scan Center Office 44-36 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City, NY 11101 phone: 718 349-5646 fax: 718 349-5642 email: lsmith2@schools.nyc.gov