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Welcome to February LT!ELA-Spring 2012

January February March AprilMay:

Year End Summit

ELA Innovation

Fair!

3 weeks! 2 weeks! 5 weeks 5 weeks

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Happy Valentine’s Day, ELA!

Overall February Learning Team Agenda: 90 minutes total

8 Opening, Hearing from an ELA Teacher

30 Sharing Solutions & Valentines!

2 Transition

42 Individual Problem-Solving Around Gaps / Deep-dive into Discussion-Level Gaps

8 End of LT Survey / Share resources / Pick up your ELA t-shirt!

GOAL: All of us will get to discuss/ adjust a past ELA solution & all of us will get to create a new solution to implement before March Pro Sat!

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Since January Pro Sat… What have you tried? What’s working? What’s not?

Partner-sharing & Reflecting: 10 minutes per partner

*Please sketch out what you tried and what worked because we’re going to use everyone’s solutions for Valentines afterwards!

First, let’s hear from one of our own…

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ELA Valentines: Celebrate EACH OTHER & Gather Solutions for YOURSELF!

“OMG, Harry! I love your solution about your students doing the in-class reading at home! Could you email me some of the quick quizzes you give to do homework check? Here’s my email address! ELA ♥, Hermione”

Partner-sharing & Reflecting: 10 minutes per partner

*Please sketch out what you tried and what worked because we’re going to use everyone’s solutions for Valentines afterwards!

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45BREAK OUT: My students don’t get to discuss in ways that help them critically think about writing or reading!GOAL: We will norm on why student-centered discussion is IMPERATIVE, prioritize a gap, & create a solution.

We will all consider sharing our work at the March Innovation Fair.

The Rest of Our Time Together…

45Choice-Based Problem-Solving with Solution Packets!

Writing, Independent Reading, State-test ResultsGOAL: We will all create solutions to solve ELA priorities. We will all consider sharing our work at the March Innovation Fair.

10Share Solutions & Resources, Sign Up for Innovation Fair, & Pick Up ELA T-shirtSurvey Time

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3 Corners, 3 Priorities

Students don’t know their progress as writers in response to literature.

They aren’t invested in their writing in response to literature goals and they aren’t steadily improving on the CFQ or other rubric.

Students aren’t making appropriate growth on state-test aligned assessments, such that they aren’t on track to EITHER perform better on the state test than they did last year OR at least proficient

Students aren’t growing enough as independent readers because they aren’t regularly independently reading for fun.

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Most EFFECTIVE Problem-Solving Cycle

OUTCOMES: Group Share:

What’s going on with your students that you really want to change?

CAUSES:Group Brainstorm

What are allllllllllll the possible causes for the gap?

Look for trends within the post-its and choose one trend to solve for!

SOLUTIONS:Partner Calendaring

What FEASIBLE next steps should you and your partner take to solve the problem by March Pro Sat?

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ELA-Survey1. SEND RESOURCES FOR YOUR ELA-VALENTINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2. Survey! Please be detail-oriented with your solutions because we’re going to

publish these to all ELA teachers!3. Pick up & pay for your t-shirt!

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STUDENT-CENTERED DISCUSSIONPROBLEM-SOLVING

Our Goals:•Norm on what strong student discussion does for students and looks like in our classes•Share with each other what is difficult about leading our students in discussion•Prioritize a student change, isolate a cause, and craft specific next steps to implement a solution around student discussion!

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Most EFFECTIVE Problem-Solving Cycle

OUTCOMES: Group Share:

What sorts of discussion have you tried in your class? What sorts of discussion haven’t you tried?

What successes have your students had with discussion?

When discussion “doesn’t work”, what happens with your students?

CAUSES:Group Brainstorm

What are allllllllllll the possible causes for the gap?

Look for trends within the post-its and choose one trend to solve for!

SOLUTIONS:Partner Calendaring

What FEASIBLE next steps should you and your partner take to solve the problem by March Pro Sat?

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Solutions!

Access the soft copy version of the Discussion Solutions Packet here:

http://tinyurl.com/midyearREAD

Here’s the link to the Taylor Delhagen Discussion Video: http://www.tfanet.org/net/myportal/tfanet/mediahub/video#

Search for video ID#: 1216972720001

2:49- 5:26

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ELA-Survey

1. SEND RESOURCES FOR YOUR ELA-VALENTINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2. Survey! Please be detail-oriented with your solutions because we’re going to publish these to all

ELA teachers!3. Pick up & pay for your t-shirt!