Posted February 9, 2022
Dear Hamilton families:
We will begin the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments on March 22, 2022. These assessments focus on the knowledge and skills our kids need for success in our global economy, including skills such as analytical thinking and the ability to solve complex problems. The CMAS assessments focus on three different content areas depending upon the grade your child is in:
We want to help parents and families with information to support student success during this time. These assessments will give our teachers critical information to help our students be on track for college and career readiness and help us understand whether our students have the necessary skills to succeed after high school.
Calendar: The calendar on the reverse side was created to communicate to you when the CMAS assessments are occurring. We ask parents and families to ensure their children get plenty of sleep and a healthy breakfast every day, but especially on assessment days. In addition, if there are doctor’s appointments or other appointments that need to be made, we hope this calendar will help you to make those appointments on non-assessment days.
Volunteers: We will not be able to accommodate any volunteers during CMAS testing dates.
Attendance: We also want to communicate that all students should be in school on-time, all day and every day, regardless of whether assessments are occurring or not. Important teaching and learning happens in between testing, so it is imperative that students are here. Our expectations remain around vacations and we expect parents to continue to plan vacations around the DPS calendar.
Make-Ups: In the event that your child has to miss a test session, they will have to make up the test another time and will be pulled during their instructional time to do so. To prevent disruption to your child’s and other student’s day, please make sure that your child is at school every day and limit their absences to only when they are sick.
Opting Out of Testing: Standardized state testing allows us to gain important information about your child. However, should you choose to opt your child out of testing, you must do so by Feb 25, 2022. Information on how to opt out of testing is linked below the calendar. If your child is not testing, they do not need to come to school until regular classes resume on testing days. If they need to come to school during testing, we will have a supervised location for them to stay.
We appreciate your support during this time. Assessments, including CMAS as well as those taken throughout the year, are vital tools for teachers to support student success. There are online resources to help parents and families support their students during CMAS testing, located at standards.dpsk12.org. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. Thank you, and go Huskies!
Amber Shearer
(720) 423-9476 asheare@dpsk12.org
Testing Calendar Hamilton 2022
Tests include all grades except Science. Science is only administered to 8th graders.
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
| 3/21/22 | 3/22/22 ELA Section 1 Class resumes at 1:00 PM | 3/23/22 ELA Section 2 Class resumes at 1:00 PM | 3/24/22 ELA Section 3 Class resumes at 1:00 PM | 3/25/22 |
| SPRING BREAK | ||||
| 4/4/22 Teal Day NO students | 4/5/22 | 4/6/22 | 4/7/22 | 4/8/22 |
| 4/11/23 | 4/12/22 Math Unit 1 Class resumes at 12:30 PM | 4/13/22 Math Unit 2 Class resumes at 12:30 PM | 4/14/22 Math Unit 3 Class resumes at 12:30 PM | 4/15/22 |
| 4/18/22 | 4/19/22 Science Unit 18th only | 4/20/22 Science Unit 28th only | 4/21/22 Science Unit 38th only | 4/22/22 |