Want to increase your students capacity to perform well on high-stakes tests? Teach them the R.A.C.E. strategy! I'm a strategist, and work with all K-5th grade teachers, and we use this wonderful acronym to teach students how to respond to a constructed response. After we all learned about this strategy, the following year we performed much higher on our state assessments in all curricular areas!Unlike a multiple-choice question, which is scored either right or wrong, a constructed-response