CPUMS
Week of April 24
Quotation: In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
8 Pathways to Every Student's Success
George Lucas Educational Foundation sponsors a website called edutopia. It is loaded with great articles. Facebook fans, like the site and you will be amazed at the great articles that come across your feed. This is a great article on building student success.
"Teachers who transform lives understand not only how to teach curriculum, but also how children develop into capable, caring, and engaged adults. They see beyond quantitative measurements of success to the core abilities that help students live healthy, productive lives."
Marilyn Price-Mitchell PhD, Developmental Psychologist, Researcher, Writer created The Compass Advantage™ model as a visual, research-based, engaging way for families, schools, and communities to apply the principles of positive youth development. A framework for understanding why kids need these interconnected abilities and how they're nurtured in different contexts, it's also a call to act on behalf of children who deserve to live full, meaningful lives beyond external measures of success. These are the 8 Pathways she discusses in the article:
- Curiosity
- Sociability
- Resilience
- Self-Awareness
- Integrity
- Resourcefulness
- Creativity
- Empathy
The complete article explains each of these in details. Continued articles explain how to incorporate each of the pathways in classrooms and at home.
Take some time to look over the articles. There are a lot of great ideas.
Ten Strategies for Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations-Strategy 5
The next few weeks I am going to share an article with you on creating a culture of learning. The article was written by Myra Cloer Reynolds of SREB.
Communicate Expectations to students and parents.
This strategy describes how students and parents are active partners in the responsibility for producing quality work. How do we communicate exactly how students are doing and what they need to do to produce higher quality work? Given computer-assisted management of grading, daily record keeping and communication, it is possible to personally communicate with students and parents at least weekly. No one likes surprises when it comes to less than acceptable performance.
Effective teachers produce and share progress reports and grades weekly with parents and students. Instead of admonishing parents not to help students with out-of-class work, effective teachers expect parents to help by proofreading, checking student work and tutoring difficult content when possible. This, balanced with sufficient in-class supervision and assessment of what students can produce independently, reaffirms the team approach to learning and alleviates the surprise or “gottcha” factor associated with the totally-teacher-owned assessment of how students are performing. Writing personal notes on specific areas of student performance, requiring parent participation and sharing expectations in advance clearly communicate high expectations to all parties and allow them to participate in the satisfaction of a job well done.
Calendar
Monday 4/24/17
- PD
Tuesday, 4/25/17
- IC learning maps
Wednesday, 4/26/17
- Work with teachers and students
- IC Learning maps
- Working with students and staff
- Early dismissal-HS conferences/MS PD
Friday, 4/28/17
- Working with students and staff
- IC meeting-PM
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