State/ Accountability
Every school writes this plan each year. The School Site Council approves it, and it ties the school’s goals and funding to its data.
What is the SPSA (School Plan for Student Achievement)?
Attendance, enrollment, schedules, and grades are all entered and stored in this student information system
What is Infinite Campus?
Exit tickets, whiteboards, and checks for understanding during a lesson fall under this type of assessment for learning.
What are formative assessments?
You have first names in one column and last names in another column. This function helps put them in one cell.
What is CONCATENATE (or JOIN)?
Before sharing any completed site-based data work with your school community, this person needs to sign off
Who is the Principal?
A student who misses 10% or more of the school days they’re enrolled is counted this way on the Dashboard.
What is chronically absent?
This dashboard platform syncs from Infinite Campus every night, so teachers can see data for their own rosters
What is Open Architects?
The short task at the end of every IM lesson that shows who met today’s learning goal.
What is a cool-down?
This helps you count how many students based on a score that is equal to or above a cutoff.
What is COUNTIF?
Families can check their student’s grades and attendance any time here, so Gradebooks need to stay current.
What is the Infinite Campus Parent Portal?
This public, color-coded site rates schools and districts on state indicators from Red to Blue.
What is the California School Dashboard?
This SSO tool sends class rosters to different apps without having to set up large data integrations
What is Clever?
SSFUSD’s mid-cycle assessment, given in fall and winter, reports growth on a RIT scale.
What is NWEA (MAP Growth)?
Use this to pull a value or score from another sheet based on unique SSID matching.
What is VLOOKUP?
This is the best place for teachers to bring student work and data so that they can look at it together, and plan what to do next.
What is a PLC (Professional Learning Community)?
Students in grades 5, 7, 9 and 11 take this state survey about school connectedness, safety and well-being.
What is the CHKS (California Healthy Kids Survey)?
This state system gives every California student an SSID.
What is CALPADS?
This is the state’s summative assessment, and its results show up on the Dashboard.
What is CAASPP?
Do this to quickly summarize 5,000 rows by school and grade without writing a single formula.
What is a Pivot Table?
Student data should never be shared, extracted, or sent to this kind of account
What is a personal email or Drive?
Every course grade in our records has to be accurate because seniors whose grades meet the cutoff can get a guaranteed admission offer from this CA university system
What is CSU?
Before CAASPP or ELPAC, student accommodations and designated supports are set up and checked here.
What is TOMS?
These short, free test items cover a small set of ELA or math skills. Teachers can give them any time during the year, and they look just like CAASPP questions.
What are IABs (Interim Assessment Blocks)?
Your roster export lists some students twice. Use this tool to clean it up before you count anything.
What is Remove Duplicates (or UNIQUE, COUNTUNIQUE)?
This board policy says "teachers must contact families when a student is in danger of failing a course."
What is BP 5121?