McCracken County Public Schools has adopted Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) as the district’s testing system to measure individual student growth in math and reading. This system will assess student progress three times a year, providing valuable information on the academic growth of individual students throughout the year.

Having the right data is a key component to making learning individual to each child. The MAP system will allow teachers to know where individual students score in math and reading upon entrance and exit of a grade - indicating whether or not a student has exhibited a year’s growth in the subject. This data will be made available to individual student’s parents as well.

Students and teachers will work together to set goals based upon the individual student’s MAP score - giving students, parents and teachers an understanding of where each child is, and needs to go.

MAP also provides reports that allow educators to compare class or grade-level performance to students from schools across the country.

Our goals as a district are clear: we believe that the data provided through the MAP testing system is essential to ensuring that each of our students experience a year’s growth every year. Our teachers may expect to engage in discussion about how to best use this data in grade level meetings, department meetings, and PLCs. It is everyone’s responsibility to make this initiative effective. We all must work to use this data to drive instructional practices in our schools. It’s what’s best for our students.