Front loading...Check!

As we begin the 5th week of school, the curriculum moves from PBIS front loading, review from previous school year and pre-assessments.  Now we begin the meat and potatoes to meet our school goals!  Data team meetings will continue bi-weekly with our next meeting being held on the 11th to support data driven instruction.  Please remember to have your team complete the activity from our last meeting prior to Thursday.  It is important to keep curriculum and instruction at the forefront to develop successful students, but it becomes meaningless without relationships.  Please see these articles for some ideas to build relationships and manage student behavior.    

Balanced Literacy

The Balanced Literacy teachers are finding there way with this traditional elementary practice now being implemented at the middle level.  Balanced literacy is research based and proven to be highly effective at the secondary level if implemented correctly. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project provides many resources regarding balanced literacy at the middle level.  Also, the links below provide videos with different instructional strategies.                                               

                                           The Workshop

                                       High order thinking

                                              Transitions 

All strategies used in the balanced literacy classroom can be succesful in other content areas!  Utilize the TeachingChannel.com to watch videos of strategies in action.  

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What's going on in your classroom?

Many exciting lessons and evidence of student learning is occurring in Scott's classrooms!  Please send pictures or written descriptions of what is occurring so I can share with others.  We deserve to brag about our hard work and share with others so we do not reinvent the wheel!