A New Year’s Reminder
A New Year’s Reminder: Your Students Are More Than Their Test Scores As educators, you live in a world of dashboards and data points: benchmarks, percentiles, sub-groups, growth bands, proficiency labels. These numbers are essential. But your students are more than their test scores. At this time of year, it’s worth saying that out loud. Tests don’t measure how a student treats the classmate who sits alone. They don’t capture the courage it takes to