the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) recognizes that the disruption to education due to the COVID19 pandemic persists as schools and districts prepare for the spring 2021 assessment administration. While the United States Department of Education (USED) has not indicated that it will allow states to waive their statewide assessment obligations for the 2020-2021 school year, the NJDOE has heard requests from many stakeholders to explore all options regarding flexibilities prior to administering the statewide assessment systems. To further explore options, including flexibilities regarding the use of statewide assessment data in federal accountability systems – and to ease the burden of preparing for and administering assessments while these options evolve – the NJDOE is postponing the planned start date of all assessments and plans to begin statewide assessment
administration no earlier than April 5, 2021.
The postponement applies to the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA) statewide assessment program in English language arts (ELA), mathematics, and science; the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) year-end assessments; the ACCESS for ELLs English language proficiency assessment; and the Alternate ACCESS for ELLs.
NJSLA Training modules, originally scheduled to be available online starting February 22, 2021, will be delayed until March, with additional details forthcoming.
Statewide Assessment Original Start Date New Start Date
ACCESS for ELLs February 16, 2021 TBD, Not before April 5, 2021
DLM March 8, 2021 TBD, Not before April 5, 2021
NJSLA Math, ELA, Science March 15, 2021 TBD, Not before April 5, 2021
The NJDOE acknowledges the tremendous efforts that students, educators, families and broader community members have made over the last year to adapt and adjust schedules, often very quickly, and is cognizant of the extensive planning efforts involved in preparing for statewide assessments, especially in those districts originally slated to begin administering the ACCESS for ELLs next week. The NJDOE is balancing efforts to prepare for all contingencies with providing districts with information as early as possible. Across the nation, states and schools are working to answer new and evolving questions about how to best provide statewide snapshots of student progress and growth while prioritizing the health, wellbeing and safety of all students and educators.
The NJDOE will provide updated information as soon as possible, as well as support as districts continue to tentatively schedule and plan for the spring administration.
Finally some common sense….
keep dumbing down the population….
They keep dumbing down the population….
Meanwhile Ridgewood schools continue to implement and teach an anti-white agenda under the guise of “diversity”.
From the superintendent:
“The district has been moving forward with its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, an integral component of the culture branch of the strategic plan. A detailed action plan was developed for how to achieve specific goals and objectives. Early in this process, additional holidays (Eid, Lunar New Year, and Diwali) were added to the calendar. The administrative team has read and discussed White Fragility as part of the summer administrative retreat and are currently reading Caste.
Third Culture People (3CP) has provided professional development to approximately 70 staff members, focusing on understanding cultural values and CQ competencies, as well as how to apply this knowledge. As part of this collaboration with 3CP, a staff DEI subcommittee will be formed to help determine priorities and actionable steps.
Several teachers in year 3 of the New Teacher Induction Program have chosen leadership projects that align with the district’s DEI initiative, including a classroom library audit, analysis of the K-5 music curriculum to assess DEI integration, and enhancing practices with English Language Learners.
Individual departments have also established DEI goals. English teacher Patricia Hans has participated in summer training in this area for the past two years, and she has provided professional development for our social students and English teachers at the November PD Day.
The Travell DEI Committee has been active, and they have shared an extensive list of resources for possible consideration during the curriculum review process. A new high school elective, the Philosophy of Race, is being offered next year.”
Your children are being indoctrinated to hate themselves if they are white and told that their values , history and culture are wrong. This is NOT about inclusion, it IS about diminishing and controlling the majority population. Your children are being indoctrinated against you and you blindly (and in many cases happily) pay for your own demise.
The dogs may howl but the caravan will move on.
I had to attend one of these sessions for work about 25 years ago. It was pitiful.
We all know what this is. It too shall pass.
25 years ago it was ignored.
Today people (teachers) have been so indoctrinated from Pre-K through Grad School that they buy all of this BS.