October 26 - PA Day
The Wild Outdoors (8:30-9:00)
Mandala activity - innovation, collaboration and wellness all in one
Wellness Check-in
Button activity - How are you feeling today?
"A significant amount of variance in student achievement is attributed to teachers. What teachers do matters. How teachers think really matters." Hattie, Visible Learning for Mathematics, 2016
Who are your at-risk students? (9:00-9:30)
Looking at your classroom data, who is struggling most in Math, Literacy? Whose well-being are you most concerned with? Planning time teachers, do these students match your noticings as well?
Grade-level discussion - what do these students have in common? Where is the starting point to help them?
Review of tiers of intervention (9:30-10:00)
1. Classroom
2. SST
3. In-school consultation
4. Outside referrals
“The key to generating widespread impact on student learning then, resides in mobilizing the group to work in specific, intense, sustained ways on learning for all students.” Michael Fullan, 2014
School Learning Plan Grade-level Breakout Groups - Focus on Literacy, Numeracy & School Climate (10:45-11:30)
Guiding Questions:
What are consistent strategies across the grades?
What strategies are working?
How can narrow the focus of the strategies in place? E.g. what kind of specific feedback are we giving to students?
Gallery Walk
Lunch (11:30 -12:30)
Breakout groups (12:30 -1:15)
1. Time to explore Math resources
2. Google Read and Write training
3. Digger deeper into topics of Equity and Inclusion
4. Decoding assessments