First Class News
Elementary 2nd Edition, 2020-2021
Focus: Curriculum Resources and Lesson Design
Backward Design: The Basics
Step 2: Look at the assessment or create one if there isn't one.
Step 3: Plan lessons that will prepare students to successfully complete the assessment.
Listen to the podcast and read the article here!
You may also read about this Backward Design in The First Days of School, pages 261-262.
K20 Learn: Student Engagement Strategies
90 Minute Reading Block
Oklahoma Reading Sufficiency Act requires a 90-minute reading block in Kindergarten through 3rd grade and recommends 90 minutes of reading instruction for upper elementary. The OSDE has published slides that explicitly break down the 90 minutes. Check out the link below for more information!
90 Minute Reading BlockHow to Choose Words That Motivate Students During Online Learning
Encouraging Student Participation in Distance Learning
Staying Connected Through Morning Message Videos
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction for Foundational Literacy
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction for PreK and Kindergarten
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction for Grades 1-2
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction for Grades 3-5
Return to Learn: Launching Instruction for Fine Arts
Return to Learn: Instruction for Health and Physical Education
OSDE Resources That Will Be Helpful When Designing Lessons
Elementary Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment
Resources to Study for Certification
Lesson Mastery: Objectives, Instruction, Assessment OH MY!
We will be using pages 220-288 from "The First Days of Schools" as an outline/reference for our October 6 First Class Meeting.
District Curriculum Questions?
What questions, or clarification, do you have regarding LPS District Curriculum; Expectations, Resources, Pacing Maps, Standards, Google Classroom, etc.
Click here, or on the "To Do" pic above, to enter up to five curriculum questions that you currently have.
LPS Elementary Curriculum Director, Sherry Havron, will be available to answer these questions at our October 6th First Class Meeting.
Lawton's First Class Meeting LOCATION CHANGE!!! CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
- October 6
- 4:30pm
- CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL Library
- Park in the BACK PARKING LOT
**This is a location change for ELEMENTARY ONLY.
Join our team as we discuss Curriculum Resources and Lesson Design. Our special guest, Sherry Havron, Director of Elementary Curriculum, will be ready to answer the curriculum questions you have entered above.
Shout Out!
Karie Janek
Karli Loving
Courtney Lopes
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Stephanie Hime, Director of New Staff Development
Email: stephanie.hime@lawtonps.org
Location: John Shoemaker Education Center, Northwest Fort Sill Boulevard, Lawton, OK, USA
Phone: 2069
Twitter: @Mrshime
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