Great Things From the Week
Such a great time going into Google Classrooms and seeing students. I miss you all! Great job everyone. I will finish my classroom visits later this week.
Thank you to the entire team for getting the Textbooks and materials out to kids. What a huge job!!! The materials will be given out as fast as we can. We will need to mail a lot of items so please be patient. I know you are all eager to get started and have the appropriate materials. It turned out to be a massive lift and we are still trying to get stuff out.
Thank you teachers for getting the impossible first week back behind us. You are all rock stars and we are here to support you.
Thanks for sharing Maria!!
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AVID
Advancement Via Individual Determination
Our AVID commitment is to hold all students to high expectations, Students need to be explicitly taught how to use organizational tools. They need to be monitored and held accountable. Take the time to teach your expectations and check in to make sure they are adhering to those expectations.
AVID Material
TK-2 - We were able to put together and pass out AVID binders to students who were Harrison students and assigned to a Harrison teacher. They were given some basic school supplies, an AVID binder, their textbooks and a two pocket folder. The students that not Harrison, and have a Harrison teacher picked up the school supplies and textbooks from their home site. AVID binder will be mailed along with two pocket folder, but it may take a week or so to get this all out.
3-6- Students received textbooks, basic supplies. Agenda planners did not go home with 5/6th grade. We will send them with 3/4th grade today they have arrived from warehouse. We will then have to mail to the rest or set up some lunch time pick ups.
If students have requested additional material needed, we have placed some orders to start getting some supplies in. This too will be a process. I will be reaching out next week to identify what students need and we can arrange for another pick up day of additional materials based on student/parent request.
WICOR
W- Writing to Learn (we spent a lot of time on writing last year, with a heavy focus on teaching students how to read a text, pull out important information, take notes and use evidence to answer Essential Questions) Students can not write with out experience (in person, virtual or otherwise). They can not write about something they have not had a number of experiences with. We can not skip this step, they need visuals, multi-media, sensory, compare and contrast and other opportunities before they can write to a topic or subject.
I- Level of questioning -Click here for more information
C- Collaboration - We explicitly taught students how to collaborate, we used the 4 L's (or a variation). we provided sentence frames, assigned roles for each collaboration partner and followed up with feedback and checking for understanding.
O- Organization - It is so important to keep students organized, with hand held items, digital items, etc. We will all use the AVID binder and require students to be AVID ready (set a 30 second timer and they should be able to find what you are asking them to find- if not they are not AVID ready and they need support to become AVID ready. Peer support, teacher support, parent support, etc. )
R- Reading to Learn - Once students acquire the skills to decode, they shift to reading for a purpose, to learn. It is important that we are not just assigning reading to read, but rather to make connections, and expand a students learning process. Close Reading Skills are a great skill w need to teach all students. Use your protocols to walk them through how to identify important information and answer the Essential Questions.
EQUITY
NUTS and BOLTS
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