February

 

The Mantra Lives On!  Deep Student Learning through Quality First Instruction

Students tracking and responding to the instruction.

Students demonstrating their understanding as they unmute and share.

From January 4 to February 12th, the school instruction and student learning goal became even more concrete for each school.

For example, as 80% of the classrooms use different instructional strategies, 50% more of the students will interaction academically (ie. unmute and speak, write in the chat, table talk in a breakout room, chin their whiteboards).

Here is What I am Noticing Through Class Visits.

• Students were engaged in their learning when told what was expected of them in how they were going to learn today and how they were going to share their learning for the day.
• Students demonstrated their learning when asked to interact in one of several ways such as the chat, the poll, the shared Google document, unmute and speak.
• Students demonstrated a deeper level of knowledge when another question was posed by the teacher to the class. (ie. Can you give me an example? Will you find the evidence in the text? Can you explain how you......)
• More students shared and interacted with the learning for the day there was a strategy to randomly get to each student in the classroom.
• Students benefited when given task or process feedback and when they were given wait time to respond with the "accurate" answer.

How the RealTime Academic Interaction Correlates to Academic Performance (particular to Reading Comprehension)

As a school district, 36% of our students showed over 6 months of growth (or more) in their reading and 31% of our students scored at grade level or above on the StarRenaissance Test. 

The test was administered at the start of the year and midyear.

A Poem Titled Kids Are Rather Enjoyable

I think kids                                                                                           

are rather enjoyable.....

                        Some are tall and thin                                    

                        Others are shorter and rounder

                        Some walk

                        Others run

                        Some glide

                        Others skip

                 Students light up when their work is right

                        They grin ear to ear

                        When they see their favorite teacher

                        who says, "child it is so great to see you today"

                        Students are the most precious gift

I think kids

are rather enjoyable!