Think Medical Model

Teach -- Assess -- Re-Teach/Intervention -- Re-Assess

• Per our conversation in our professional learning communities, think of the medical model for students.  As you teach and use exit slips to check student learning, what strategies are you using to re-teach (something different -- change the prescription), then re-assess these particular students to be sure they understand (did the new prescription work).  Keep this method in mind as you plan intervention instruction for students.

• Share and track student progress among all parties -- homeroom teacher, ECE teacher, ESL teachers & instructors, and ESS.

• Review academic progress with students and set goals for improvement.

• Implementation of guided reading groups -- On the right side of the blog, there is a new link for guided reading resources (lesson plans and videos).

Professional Learning Communities

• Kindergarten -- Meet with White -- bring laptop, a lesson analysis sheet you've completed for a previous PLC
• First Grade -- bring exit slip from 6.5 to discuss next steps -- drill down to specific students
• Second Grade -- bring pretest results for topic 7 -- next steps -- drill down to specific students
• Third - Fifth Grade
  1. Current student progress with learning targets
  2. Creating flashbacks for students
  3. Differentiation based on current learning targets 
  4. How are we using Reflex Math

Culture 

Kelsey Schuhmann shared this video.  How do we start students on a positive trajectory each day?

https://m.facebook.com/steve.forsythe.35/posts/1139748936103794

Faculty Meeting

• Review feedback from Gold Day
• Writing -- review student work 
• Integrating writing in math instruction (students understand the criterion for their explanations)
• Reluctant writer strategies

Celebration

These are the images selected as winners for the MLK Stamp Art Contest sponsored by the MLK Post Office.  All the student art work will be displaced in the MLK Post Office starting on Monday, January 8^th thru the end of the month.  Parents and other JCPS students invited to stop in the post office to see all the entries.  Winners are Desiree Miller, Hamza Khamis, and Evelin Rangel Calderon.  Students will be recognized in a ceremony Friday, January 12th. As a prize the students art work image was used to create postcards and real postage stamps Each of the three winners will receive 12 postcards and real postage stamps of their Art work.   Shout out to Mr. Sollman!

Have a great week!  Be sure to check the living calendar and daily updates throughout the week.