The state’s new accountability and continuous improvement system for schools and districts, the California School Dashboard, is being unveiled to the public this month. The Dashboard will monitor multiple measures of student progress. The Dashboard will provide a much broader…
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The Spartan multi-use building at Sunnyvale Middle School buzzed with energy on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 with students from every grade level participating in the school’s first mathematics festival in place of their normal math class. Students had 40-minutes to…
Like little shopkeepers ready to sell their wares, third-grade students from Fairwood Explorer Elementary eagerly set up stands outside and inside Book-a-Saurus on Murphy Avenue Nov. 2 in a unique opportunity to present their toy and literature projects to the…
The state Department of Education released testing results Aug. 24, and for the second consecutive year students in the Sunnyvale School District outperformed the state averages and reflected the county averages of their peers in English Language Arts and mathematics….
Last spring, students took part in the 2015-16 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), which includes the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments for English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics. These tests are based on California’s challenging academic standards, which…
Sunnyvale School District’s Cumberland, San Miguel, and Vargas Elementary Schools are being honored under the 2016 California Gold Ribbon Schools Awards Program. The Gold Ribbon awards recognize California schools that have made advancements in implementing the California Standards for English…
One of our core beliefs in the Sunnyvale School District is that an effective school provides an environment that is positive, purposeful, and safe. To help accomplish this, the Sunnyvale School District administered the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) to…
Second graders at Bishop Elementary School went head-to-head with students twice their age in an online math competition this spring, and won! Ms. Nancy Bierly’s class competed in the online Sumdog Math contest for all K-8 grade students in Santa…
The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) will be given to students in grades 3rd through 8th between April 18 and May 27. Each school site will provide specific days and times of testing within this window. This will be the…
We are proud to say that all schools in the Sunnyvale School District (SSD) have met the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements as laid out by the California Department of Education. SSD had a California Assessment of Student Performance and…
More than 700 students attended the Stanford Summer Explorations program, which ran from June 29 – July 24 at Bishop Elementary School for incoming 1st-5th graders and at Columbia Middle School (CMS) for incoming 6th-8th graders. Summer Explorations is a free, four week program,…
The Smarter Balanced Assessment results, which were anticipated in August, have been delayed to September 9. Educators, parents, and the broader community have been alerted that the results will be different than scores in the past, as this will be…
Sunnyvale School District’s Columbia and Sunnyvale Middle Schools have joined a total of 193 middle schools and 180 high schools to be honored under the state’s new Gold Ribbon School Award. The Gold Ribbon awards recognize California schools that have…
Sunnyvale School District’s third through eighth graders participated in the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress testing program (CAASPP) from April 20 through May 29. The new assessment system, which replaces the previous California Standards Test, has been adopted…
Common Core curriculum will be in full implementation this year, and students will be taking a new set of standardized tests, developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, and aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English/Language Arts and…