Keeping you "In the Know"...
"Learning begins at the edge of your comfort zone."
Upcoming Consultants
· Sue McAdams
Sue will be joining our Kinder and 1st grade teams to continue our dialog with Shared reading and Guided Reading opportunities. She will be working with Kindergarten on Monday, September 21st-22nd. She will be working with Kindergarten and 1st and 2nd grade teachers Tuesday, September 22nd modeling and coaching Guided Reading.
· Audrey Bragg
Audrey brag will be joining 3-5 teachers Tuesday, September 29th! Details about her time with us are coming soon!
*Sue McAdams
Sue will be joining us again Thursday, October 15th to continue our learning in Kinder and 1st grades. Details coming soon.
*Sue McAdams
Sue will join us for coaching in Kinder. Details coming soon.
*Dinah Chancellor
Dinah will be joining 2-5th grades Monday, October 26th to support our learning with fractions. Details coming soon.
Curriculum Updates
MATH
LESSON UPDATES: We have the next round of curriculum writing next week. Lessons will not be posted for grades 3-5 until the following week for Cluster 2. K-2 has curriculum writing on September 28; lessons for Cluster 2 will be posted on October 5. If your teams are backwards planning for Cluster 2 they can use the Cluster Planner, CBA, and Scaffolding Documents to work on the following: unpack the TEKS and identify SB and TB, create CFAs, plan LS problem solving and work stations.
The technology side of MSTAR has been having difficulties importing all of the students and assigning them to the correct teacher. Debbie Saldana is working on a solution. We realize the CAMP is coming right up, computer labs are being used for iStation, as well as a host of other things going on at the campus. Tammy will send an email to all of you after the problem is resolved. Please know, if you just cannot administer the MSTAR within the time frame, that it's not anything to worry about. Some things are out of our control.
Hats off to you TEACHERS for continuing to use the Exemplars resource this week to develop the mathematical process standards. The district has videoed many teachers this week--feel free to use these videos to help build our comfort level with exemplars. We are all taking risks and moving forward. There is no RIGHT way!
Knowing that a HUGELY powerful piece is to analyze the common formative assessment from the first process they worked on, I am excited we will be able to better know each student by name and need with sorting papers to see where they are in their progression of learning. After examining the students' work, we will be able to develop plans of how to move students to the next level.
I wanted to keep including these videos for your reference.
Kindergarten Video: Process of Problem Solving
Second Grade Video: Process of Making Connections
Third Grade Video: Process of Making Connections
Fifth Grade Video: Process of Problem Solving
Fifth Grade Video 2: Process of Making Connections
Data Analysis from 1st Formative Assessment: 5th Grade
Exemplars is our best resource to intentionally teach the process standards. We all know that from our time spent on August 18th learning about process standards and STAAR, that STAAR questions have at least 3 processes per questions. Therefore, we are doing our students a great service by utilizing this resource.
Here is a video of a 5th grade team debriefing their formative assessment after their first week of Exemplars. This debrief can "look" many ways; the important thing to focus on is the conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zDZS8_g5Oo#action=share
GREAT RESOURCE!
Free Math Professional Development Webinar for all of US!
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https://www.clearslide.com/view/mail?iID=WG3W2MM3DJ4WZ4LRVKDR
This free webinar series sponsored by Hand2Mind (one of our district resources) is presenting professional learning on manipulatives based instruction. Check it out!
ELAR
- Our curriculum writers spent this week working on cluster 3: Visualize to Experience.