Dat ISTEP+ Doe

Well, it has been an exhausting week in middle school!  Today, we finally finished up ISTEP+ testing.  This year, we really wanted to find ways to make the week more fun for our students, instead of the usual doom and gloom that permeates the building during testing week.

Our first idea was to make an ISTEP+ video to share with students.  So, we collected some of our tech-savvy high school students and set out to make our very own verion of  Roar.  We wanted the video to be funny.  No, it isn’t the best audio you will ever hear and the video isn’t going to win a VMA anytime soon, but it was a huge success with our target audience (middle school students).    We played the video at a short convocation for middle school students at the end of the day on Monday since they began testing on Tuesday morning.

Each morning before the test, we also served breakfast to the entire middle school.  And let me tell you, that is a LOT of bananas and chocolate milk!  Some of  our high school students made posters to hang up around the building for encouragement.  They were awesome! 

Perfect quote for testing week!

This definitely motivated some of the middle school boys! ;)

Dat ISTEP+ Doe...

 Needless to say, we had some happy middle school students (and one especially happy teacher) when testing was finished.  I can't wait to get our scores back, I think we nailed it!