Glenfield Middle School

Principals Newsletter
April 11
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, 2014 Dr. Joseph A. Putrino, Jr.
jputrino@montclair.k12.nj.us

The NJASK
Beginning May 5
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Glenfield will start to administer the New Jersey
Assessment of Skills Knowledge (NJASK). Grade 6, 7 & 8 will be
tested Monday through Thursday. This assessment is a mandatory test
for all students in these grades. Below are some notes to be mindful
of.

- Test administration begins each day at 8:05am. Students
who are late (past 8:00am) will be held in the main office and
not allowed to take that particular section of the test.
- Please make every effort for your child to not be absent
during testing week. Students who are absent will need to take
the make-up test for the day missed on a scheduled day during
the week following their scheduled assessment.
- Students do better if they are prepared and at ease. Teachers have been working very hard
to ensure our students are academically prepared and desensitized from the stress of the
NJASK. You can help by ensuring that your child has had a good nights sleep prior to testing
dates and has had a nutritious breakfast each morning.
- Security. Test administration is a very secure process. Only certified school personnel may
proctor the NJASK. Therefore, if you currently volunteer at Glenfield or have an appointment
to meet with a teacher, please plan to not be in the building on test dates until after 10:30am.
- Children cannot be pulled out of their classrooms. Once testing has begun a child cannot
stop midway to be pulled out of school for a doctors appointment or other related appointment.
If there is an emergency, a child can be reached. However, children who leave the school
without completing any particular days assessment will not be allowed to finish that particular
section of the test and it will be scored as is.
- In accordance with security procedures for all State assessments, under no circumstances
are students permitted to have cell phones, MP3 players, or other unauthorized
electronics in their possession during testing. Students found to have unauthorized
electronics in a testing room at any time before, during, or after the actual testing process,
will have their test voided.

In order to avoid this circumstance, the District recommends the following:

Students should leave all unauthorized electronics home during testing.
If students bring unauthorized electronics to school, the items should be turned in to the
main office for safe keeping, or kept in the students locker during testing.
If a student brings unauthorized electronics into the testing room, they must give the
items to the teacher who is in charge of that testing room. The items will be placed in a
secure location in the testing room until all of the testing materials have been returned to
the School Test Coordinator. Only then will unauthorized electronic items be returned to
the student.

In the event that a student brings unauthorized electronics into the testing room, and
attempts to use, hold, look at, or if an alarm, vibration, call, etc. sounds, the electronic
item will be confiscated, and the students test will be voided. The electronic device will
not be returned to the student, and will only be given to the students parent/guardian by
the school administrator. Please understand that test security is a very serious matter,
and there will be no lenience or flexibility to these procedures.


NJASK Test Schedule
Date Day of the Week Subject Grade Level Tested
May 5
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Monday Language Arts 6, 7 & 8
May 6
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Tuesday Language Arts 6, 7 & 8
May 7
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Wednesday Math 6, 7 & 8
May 8
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Thursday Math (6&7)/Science (8) 6, 7 & 8
*** Make-up testing will begin Friday May 9
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and extend through Wednesday May 14
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.