A continually refined simplistic approach to state testing for a district of 33,000+ students is presented. District forms for state testing, very few in number, that are required to be filled out by campuses will be shared. Two excel testing calendars for 2018-2019 will be shared. This DTC's guiding principle after 7+ years as a high school CTC and 11 years as a DTC continues to be, why write testing guidelines when they are provided.