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Questions for Learning: Risk-Taking

August 14, 2017

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Developing a Formative Culture
Digital Media Connections
My Favorite Mistake
Mythbuster
Pathway of the Month
Questions for Learning
Spotlight on Powerful Practice
Tidbits to Fingertips
Tips for G Suite

Pathway of the Month: Cultivating a Culture of Relationships

Are you working towards making your classroom more personalized, and want to gather ideas on some pathways already used by other JCPS teachers? Look no further! Here, we will share pathways from multiple content areas and grade levels created by other teachers, and vetted by the district. Want these sent directly to your email? Subscribe to the blog! Sample Getting to Know You Pathway Below is a pathway for beginning of year "getting to know the students", used in a 7th grade ELA class. Notice a few important components: 1.) This particular pathway uses a relevant topic (getting to know students) to still address grade level standards. 2.) Content standards are written in student-friendly language on the left side. 3.) Pathway options are aligned with each content standard. 4.) Checkpoints (with the teacher) are required throughout the process to ensure for both the students and the teacher that ...

Formative Culture: Lessons From the Dragonfly

Check back here for ideas on how to easily and efficiently inform instruction by formatively assessing student mastery throughout the learning process. Lessons From the Dragonfly: A Reflection on My Visit to Dixon Road Submitted by Jenna McKeel, Director of School Improvement Dixon Road Elementary was one of only six schools who exceeded growth last year in the county. I visited the school with the intent to learn about their tools and tricks to formatively assess progress for students: their gold nuggets for success, if you will. I spent time with Michelle Toboas, 3rd grade teacher, Whitney Jackson, 5th grade teacher, Leigh Ann Freeman, TLC, Leslie Pope, Curriculum Coach, and the dynamic duo administrative team, Kenneth Bennett and Amy Creed. I loved every moment of our group interview. But I left with one little problem; they were not giving me what I wanted to hear. They were not giving me my gold nuggets . Every strategy and practice they offered ...

Myth Busters, Vol. 3: Pick vs Selection vs Choice (and Options)

Me again. Here to complain about language. Yeh, again . Listening? Or rather, “reading”? Hope so. This will be a quick busting of a myth… er myth-busting… or rather clarification of a misconception. Yes, we’ll go with that title… though “Misconception Clarifiers!” doesn’t have the same ring as “Myth Busters!” Maybe the title is just in need of solid marketing. Regardless, we’ll be through with it too quickly to warrant bringing in a focus group to test new ones. Y’all, we have got to stop using the term “student choice” when we mean, “students were given an extremely limited selection of bizarrely similar options and I guess they got to pick one of those”. I’m here to clarify the language of “choice”, “selection”, “pick”, and “options”. Disclaimer: these all have their places and appropriate uses. Don’t get me wrong - there’s a right time to allow for your students to “pick”... but we’ve got to give up the act that we’re embracing student choice. “Pick” ...

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