How much time do Miami-Dade County students spend on screens in the classroom?<\/a><\/p>\n\u201c\u200aThe message is not that students will never see technology,\u201d said Richard Baum, director of Educational Assessment, Analysis and Research. \u201cThe message is that routine one-to-one device use is being reduced, especially where it replaces teacher-led instruction, hands-on learning, oral language, writing, manipulatives, and developmentally appropriate learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the testing overlapped, so part of the goal was to eliminate duplication of district tests assessing skills that the state is already testing. For example, Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or FAST, tracks progress monitoring three times in the school year, so the district eliminated its own administering of i-Ready Growth.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aSome may worry that removing i-Ready in the district is removing intervention, and that is not the case,\u201d said Melissa Holtz, director of elementary learning. A tiered system with teacher-led support will be implemented for students\u2019 differing intervention needs.<\/p>\n
i-Ready is fully eliminated for first graders needing extra help, while it\u2019ll still be used \u201cstrategically\u201d for intervention or acceleration in second through fifth grades at some of the higher tiers.<\/p>\n
In the 2025-26, students in grades 2, 3 and 4 were spending 6 and a half hours on screens performing district tests. That time was cut down to 3 hours for the new school year.<\/p>\n
Fifth graders in 2025-26 were dedicating more than 7 hours on district-issued testing. Going into the new year, that\u2019s reduced to just less than 5 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if this is perfect,\u201d said board member Debbie Hixon, “but it\u2019s definitely a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broward County School Board removed district testing for kindergarten and first graders, and significantly reduced it for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-372650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}