The Happenings in Konocti Unified
Walk thrus in many classrooms:
This month I visited Pomo and Lower Lake High School. My goal is to visit every classroom before the end of the school year. Why? It helps me get a good pulse on the teaching and learning here in Konocti as the director of curriculum and instruction. It helps me learn more about each teacher and the students. It informs our next steps in the way of support and progress with instruction and curriculum. I look to refine my skills as an observer to be able to provide valuable feedback to support adult performance and student learning.
District-wide walk thrus:
Some patterns and next steps learned from our classroom visits/walk-thrus were the following:
- Students making learning progress toward the learning objective(s) for the day; especially with a clearly articulated learning objective.
- Students demonstrating their abilities and knowledge with varying types of depth of knowledge questions and tasks; a range of recall questions/tasks complimented with DOK2 and DOK3 questions/tasks.
- Students engaged by having an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and knowledge through a variety of techniques like pair-shares, turn and talk, table share, and so on.
Our next district-wide walk thru is scheduled for March 22 at East Lake School and at Pomo Elementary.
District collaboration day March 17:
Grade level teams will analyze some student written responses and student results from a recent CCSS Unit assessment.
High schools will look at formative and/or summative assessments to compliment their differentiated instruction - modifications, accommodations, and challenges - to support special education and regular education students; low, middle and high students.
District Engaged Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting (ETLC): This committee is comprised of the instructional coaches, the grade level district teacher facilitators, high school department chairs (principals are welcome) and myself. We met February 18 as an opportunity to share successes around each grade level and department progress in regards to instruction and assessment; in regards to instruction and learning. It was an opportunity to learn and share best practices on a vertical level around student learning and classroom instruction.
Forward progress with the Math Pilot Process:
In our March meeting, we will bring student results from the February math grade level CCSS unit assessment.
The GoMath representative will offer some training on the use of GoMath, especially on the digital side.
Time permitting, we will decide to purchase GoMath and/or recommend piloting the teacher representatives second option at the start of the next school year.
Evaluating and piloting Language Arts/English Language Development supplemenatl instructional materials.
I am pulling together a team of teacher representatives K - 8 to evaluate instructional materials on April 28th. we will review and preview 4 -5 language arts instructional materials, make a recommendation of our top 2 choices, then pilot these materials in the fall of the 2015-2016 school year.
Stay tuned for that invitation and the criteria to be on the ELA/ELD piloting committee.
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment MidYear Update: This school presentation took place March 2. Look under the C&I department on the Konocti website to see the presentation.
This past week in Kim Marshall's Memo: In This Issue:
7. Short item: Information
on Harkness teaching
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