School Improvement in Maryland

What Do Elementary Teachers Need to Know?

Teaching Maryland Standards

Understanding State Assessments

Analyzing Data Results

Welcome, Teachers

from Leslie Wilson, Asst. State Superintendent

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This section of the site was developed to support your efforts in providing a quality education to Maryland students. The VSC Toolkits contain over 3,000 resources to support you in the classroom. Let us know what you find useful and what changes you would like to see. You may want to bookmark this page as your mdk12.org homepage.

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Item of the Week

Every week you'll find new sample questions to test your child’s readiness for the Maryland assessments.

Data Explorer

Learn how to read and analyze your school's performance on MSA and AYP.

Reading your AYP Reading Data

Reading your AYP Math Data

MSA Data

Toolkit

Access more than 1000 Lesson Plans, Prerequisite Skills, Public Release Items to support classroom instruction.

Voluntary State Curriculum

Reading

Mathematics

“By thinking differently about how education can be provided, how teachers can be cultivated, how children can learn, we are creating a world-class educational model.”

—Nancy S. Grasmick
Maryland State Superintendent