Friday, November 15, 2019

Minding the Verbs; Increasing the Rigor!

Thank you so much for your engagement this week in reviewing the Columbus lesson. Your insights were really valuable and some of you spoke with me afterward and brought even more meaning to the task.  When we allow students to do the heavy lifting, we are increasing the rigor for them. As a school with many students who are high achieving, it is important for us to protect the rigor of the core and teach the standards as they are written. This particular lesson also brought to light how important it is for us to allow room for student perspectives and to not tell students how to think about certain issues. Students bring different life experiences and backgrounds that should be respected and can enrich the conversation for all.

Ms. Arbour's class solving multistep word problems

Thank you to Ms. Gardner, and crew for amazing work as a Student Council



Ms. Crabtree's class uses Seesaw to find the spelling pattern in a paragraph

Ms Wood working with students on the Osmo's. How happy are we that she is full time now?!

Ms. Hart's class makes a plan and then solves the problem!

Loving all the turkeys! We are rocking it at 33,233 dollars raised!!!!

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  1. JulieNovember 18, 2019 at 4:40 AM

    I appreciated the insight to the example you shared in staff meeting about hitting the standard. I shared that with my regional PLT when we were focusing on a standard about collaboration. The standard is in every grade level K-5 but a little different for each age group - we talked about focusing on the verb in each grade level's standard and how to plan a an art project in order to hit that verb in each standard. It's easy as an "older" teacher to just do as we have always done (auto pilot) and not focus on the rigor and digging deeper into the standard to see what we can adjust or add (or delete) to meet the standard. Thanks!

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