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Tracking Tools: Assess & Celebrate Learning
High school ELA teacher Sarah Brown Wessling give her students snaps to celebrate learning and asks for thumbs up or down to assess understanding. When students say things that are particularly remarkable, Sarah snaps as a way to highlight their good work. As she teaches, Sarah stops to assess understanding
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Reading Like a Historian: Re-Assessing Reliability
High school teacher William Colglazier has his students practice sourcing documents by assessing reliability before, during, and after reading. William explains how he encourages sourcing to become habitual by having his students constantly checking for reliability. As students gain an awareness of reliability, they begin to see history as constantly
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Using CFAs to Improve Teaching and Learning
In developing, using, and analyzing common formative assessments, the English Language Arts content team at Covington Middle School: appreciates a range of data, articulates its learning goals, analyzes assessment data, uses data to modify instruction, and embraces collaboration.
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Guiding Instruction through CFAs
The seventh grade mathematics team modifies the mathematics curriculum’s assessments to align with their district goals and analyzes data to modify instruction. To do so, the team articulates learning goals, analyzes results, uses results to inform instruction, and embraces collaboration.
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Conjecturing About Functions (Uncut)
Students in Audra McPhillips' eighth grade class use the four representations of a function to solve a set of growing dots problems.
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Planning Instruction with PARCC Tools: Overview
Laura McGiffert Slover, CEO of Parcc Inc, as well as Bonnie Hain, Doug Sovde and teachers share how educators can benefit from PARCC's instructional supports. They discuss how PARCC has these created tools in order to support teachers in their instructional planning. They explain how these tools are part of
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Planning ELA Instruction with PARCC Tools
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers provide an overview for how to use PARCC's resources for planning ELA instruction. They introduce a process for unpacking sample performance based assessment tasks and share why it is important for teachers to reflect on standards when planning instruction.
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Teaching for Biliteracy
Spanish, Somali, Hmong, and Telugu are a few of the 48 languages spoken in the School District of Waukesha (SDW). At SDW, we're proud to say that our student population brings many assets and global experiences to a suburb west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, our largest population of students is
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Number Talks in Sixth Grade (Uncut)
Crystal Morey provides tailored instruction to a small group of students in her sixth grade math class. First, she formatively assesses all students. Next, she pulls together a small group of students who have similar misconceptions. In the small group, students use manipulatives and images to explore the math concepts.
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Coding in Algebra (Uncut)
Joshua Kwon explains how he is teaching students to code in order to deepen their understanding of algebra.
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Identifying Texts Worth Reading
Bonnie Hain and participants discuss what they believe makes a text worth reading. They start by reading, annotating and discussing a selection from "Brian's Winter." They discuss how texts worth reading evoke individual responses, have multiple entry points and spark rich discussions. They also define mirror texts and window texts.
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Connecting Texts to ELA Standards
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers explore how to connect texts and standards together. Bonnie shares the importance of narrowing down which standards you could teach with a text. Teachers practice matching standards and texts together, and discover that sometimes you have to let go of a text you love if
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Designing Purposeful ELA Instruction
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers reflect on how PARCC's tools can help them in their instructional planning. They see the value in using this process with their colleagues and discuss how it will help them make strong instructional decisions in their classrooms.
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Place Value & The Numbers 11-19 (Uncut)
Kindergartners in Karen Lassiter's class work with ten frames to extend their understanding of numbers to include numbers 11-19.
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Factor, Expand & Combine Like Terms (Uncut)
Seventh graders in Michelle Goldberg's math class apply properties of operations as strategies for simplifying expressions. Michelle begins class with a warm-up of sorting terms and then gives the students a collaborative activity of simplifying expressions. Next, students take a quick assessment to check for understanding. Class ends with students
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The Power of Pairing Texts to Demonstrate Standards
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers discuss the power of pairing texts together in order to demonstrate standards. Participating teachers read excerpts from "Call of the Wild" and "Brian's Winter." They discuss how pairing these texts together provides students with an opportunity as well as a challenge. They discuss how vocabulary
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"Tell Me Everything" Math Routine: Kindergarten
Instructional coach Kristin Gray asks a group of kindergarten students to reason about a number. She records the responses of the students and asks them for equations that equal the number. The number in this case is fourteen, but any number could be used for this routine.
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Guided Groups
Students assess their conceptual understanding of a figurative language assignment by assigning themselves a letter: C = I get it, B = I have clarifying questions, and A = I need reteaching. Students who understand the assignment are released to get started on the assignment. The teacher addresses the questions
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Making Sense of Fractions Through Discourse
Fifth grade, dual-language teacher Kris Carey engages her students in a challenging fractions task. Class begins with a number talk in order to prepare the students for the story problem. After the talk, students work in bilingual pairs to strategize how they might solve the story problem. Then, students move
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3 Tips for Supporting ELLs Through Co-Teaching & Collaboration
Discover how shared responsibility, collaborative work, and reflection can help you support learning for ELLs.
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Meeting Students' Needs in Number Talks
Crystal Morey provides tailored instruction to a small group of students in her sixth grade math class. First, she formatively assesses all students. Next, she pulls together a small group of students who have similar misconceptions. In the small group, students use manipulatives and images to explore the math concepts.
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Deepening Understanding: Proportional Relationships
Seventh grade math teacher Teri Walker administers a post assessment on proportional relationships and uses the results to inform her instruction. First, she reminds students of the pre assessment and the feedback questions from that. Then, she administers the post assessment and reviews the results with her grade level colleagues.
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Evidence-Based Academic Discussion: Getting Started
Students in Sarah Horwitz's fourth grade class participate in an evidence-based discussion about environmental issues. Drawing on recent field trip experiences as well as library research, students discuss what they believe to be the most pressing environmental issues. Ms. Horwitz uses participation chips, discussion roles, as well as exit tickets
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Highlighting Mistakes: A Grading Strategy
Leah Alcala explains how she helps her students learn from mistakes through a grading strategy. When grading tests, Ms. Alcala highlights student mistakes rather than marking or correcting them. She passes back tests without grades so that the students can focus on learning from their mistakes. They have the opportunity
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Understanding Proportional Relationships
Seventh grade teacher Teri Walker engages her math students in recognizing proportional relationships through a formative assessment lesson. She begins with an opening activity using stacks of paper to analyze proportional relationships. Next, students complete pre-assessment tasks. Afterwards, Teri and her math colleagues come together to review and respond to