Dear County and District Superintendents and Direct-Funded
Charter School Administrators: SMARTER BALANCED TECHNOLOGY
READINESS TOOL ROLLOUT As you know, in June 2011, California
became a governing state in the SMARTER Balanced Assessment
Consortium (SBAC). SBAC brings states together to create an
innovative assessment system for mathematics and English
language arts/literacy that are aligned with the Common Core
State Standards. The SBAC assessments will be delivered via
computing devices; assessing our students using technology
provides schools and districts much faster turnaround of results
and a better opportunity to assess our students on twenty-first
century skills with twenty-first century technology. This is
indeed an exciting opportunity to enable our assessment system
to assess those critical thinking skills that our educators are
teaching. The purpose of this communication is to announce the
statewide rollout of the SBAC Technology Readiness Tool. The
statewide data collection window is now open an