Started the day off listening to @gcouros! Came back to the building and saw that WB’s @arielapolicastro made a bulletin board with me on it.
Yes, this year is going to rock!
An amazing day of professional development with @JSerravallo. The coherent texts that were multimodal is setting @missdepa2 and @MsJuKuWB to rock our intervention supports!
Very excited to read @JaneKise and @AnnholmNet’s book. I cannot think of a better topic to explore and unpack!
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This devastating and empathetic piece tracks with what I've heard and seen all semester. The kids with externalizing behaviors are often punished and the kids who are internalizing go unnoticed. nyti.ms/3ppayLW
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✳️The primary purpose of classroom assessment to inform our instruction, not to determine a grade. #LeadInclusion #sblchat #atassessment #tg2chat #masterychat – at Kentucky, USA
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For those who think assessment for learning and formative assessment are "old hat", 25 years after Paul Black and I published our first joint paper, I recorded a video for @aaiauk to explain why I think it's still important: bit.ly/3hXCpik
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Reflecting on Tuckman’s stages of team development. @brightmorningtm also advises that if your team struggles to remain at the advanced stages it may be due to organizational norms. #ECISMLC_WAB What is our responsibility and ability to positively influence those?
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I think a lot of the disconnect on school reopenings is that there's this binary debate about whether opening schools is "safe" or not when the honest argument for opening them is that it's *pretty* safe and the consequences of keeping them closed are potentially *very* bad.
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Actually it’s great advice—research shows that teachers making this up on their own isn’t as good for kids. Put the kids’ needs above your philosophy. – at Highland Park, IL
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Do you want to support foundational skills instruction in your school? The Foundational Skills Observation Tool is perfect for improving how we teach these skills. bit.ly/2NeSUZm #elemchat #elachat #educoach
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#DidYouKnow: Classrooms that serve students from higher-income backgrounds spent 2x as much time on grade-appropriate assignments and 5x times as much time with strong instruction than classrooms with predominantly students from low-income backgrounds. opportunitymyth.tntp.org/
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If students meet a standard with below grade level texts are they meeting the standard?
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