Student progress monitoring is an important part of the work we do here at ANS. Regular formal and informal progress monitoring provides teachers with valuable information on the progress and achievements of their students and where they are in terms of benchmarks. We have just completed our first cycle of progress monitoring. This work also provides us as educators an opportunity to reflect on our own teaching and assess the impact of our instructional strategies. Please reach out to your child’s teacher if you have any questions. Progress monitoring is beneficial in a number of ways:

It helps us collect useful data.This data is helpful when monitoring the progress of individual students across a range of learning areas, as well as tracking their achievement throughout the year. 

It helps guide and improve our instruction through reflection. This work allows us as educators to evaluate the effectiveness of our teaching by looking at student achievement.

This work encourages student growth. Monitoring student progress and sharing this information with students and families helps make learning transparent. Additionally, we do a lot of goal setting with students at ANS. Students then are able to be leaders of their own learning when they set goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely on a regular basis.

Another powerful benefit that comes out of progress monitoring is that our teachers are able to identify students at risk and students that need acceleration opportunities which are provided during our Teacher Table Time Intervention Block.

Special Announcements

As we begin the 23-24 school year we have important guidelines from our own ANS Health Clinic related to how to keep ourselves and our community in good health.