Professional learning to start the year - Summer and August 2014

We began our year regrouping and thinking about where specifically we needed to focus as a campus.  It was critical for us to look at longitudinal data and see our needs.  Part of our learning would consist of analyzing where we were with problem-based learning and our STEM initiative.  

Planning and designing team worked during the summer.  Here is a link to Google Docs where we began developing some of our planning. 

Fort Worth Museum Summer  

Working with Cathy Barthelmy and touring the museum, coming to campus and looking at where we had been with our TCE UbD lesson design and where we were planning to go!  Ideas and brainstorming

Assessment and Accountability 

Analyzing STAAR data, parent/learner survey and putting out the picture of what our data was saying about us as a campus
Pulling up actual data and comparing our campus with others across the district.  
Where are our holes?  What do we need to do?

• Came up with writing across the board K-5. . .
• Accountability in Math- stations and whole group
• Accountability in Science - non fiction reading, graphs, using those scientific tools (measuring, collecting data)
• Accountability in Reading - text coding, analyzing texts, inferences and educators/learners asking critical thinking/higher level questions

Educator Evaluation Tools

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