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Friends,
Can you share 1 or 2 new understandings you have (or are beginning to) developed today? Those are the pearls on your teaching necklace. :)

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Dear friends,
Thank you for spending a day with me, please complete this survey before next Wed. June 8th.
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Flipgrid: My Personal Statement as a language teacher.

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Flipgrid: My Personal Statement as a language teacher.

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My personal statement as a language teacher

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Flipgrid is where social and emotional learning happens! The leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families.

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Dear teachers,
Please allow me to learn more about you by completing the survey here before May 31st (Tuesday). Thank you.
Lilian

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The Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition

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The Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition

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McREL - The Five Stages of Second Language Acquisition

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Differentiating Instruction: It’s Not as Hard as You Think

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The Natural Approach: Stages of Second Language Development

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The Natural Approach: Stages of Second Language Development

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https://tapestry.usf.edu/Nutta/DATA/content/docs1/NaturalApproachNarrative.pdf

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Topic-Based and Concept-Based Curricular Designs

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Topic-Based and Concept-Based Curricular Designs

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Topic-Based and Concept-Based Curricular Designs

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What Is Inquiry-Based Learning: 7 Benefits & Strategies You Need to Know

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What Is Inquiry-Based Learning: 7 Benefits & Strategies You Need to Know

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by H. Lynn Erickson

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This third edition of the classic bestseller on curriculum design provides practical structures, planning tools, and specific classroom examples of effective teaching strategies. The author focuses on the need for curriculum that takes students to a level of understanding where knowledge transfers readily to new situations and thinking becomes integrated. Updated throughout, the book's wide-ranging topics include:

Aligning local curriculum with state and national content standards

Using brain-based teaching methods

Developing higher-order thinking skills

Assessing and reporting student progress

Creating a lifelong love of learning in students

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Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul: Redefining Curriculum, Instruction, and Concept-Based Learning, 3rd Edition

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Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul: Redefining Curriculum, Instruction, and Concept-Based Learning, 3rd Edition [H. Lynn Erickson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul: Redefining Curriculum, Instruction, and Concept-Based Learning, 3rd Edition

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Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice

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Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice

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by Trevor MacKenzie

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Looking to better prepare your students for the world of tomorrow?

Keen to help learners create authentic connections to the world around them?

Dive into Inquiry beautifully marries the voice and choice of inquiry with the structure and support required to optimise learning for students and get the results educators desire. With Dive into Inquiry you'll gain an understanding of how to best support your learners as they shift from a traditional learning model into the inquiry classroom where student agency is fostered and celebrated each and every day. This book strikes a perfect balance of meaningful pedagogy, touching narrative, helpful processes, original student examples, and rich how-to lesson plans all to get you going on bringing inquiry into your classroom.

After reading this book educators will feel equipped to design their own inquiry units in a scaffolded manner that promote a gradual shift of control of learning from the teacher to the learner. Exploring student passions, curiosities, and interests and having these shape essential questions, units of study, and performance tasks are all covered in this powerful book. Learn to keep track of the many inquiry topics in your classroom and have students take ownership over their learning like never before!

Trevor MacKenzie provides readers with a strong understanding of the Types of Student Inquiry and proposes a framework that best prepares both educators and learners for sharing the unpacking of curriculu

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Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice

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Amazon.com: Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice: 9781733646826: MacKenzie, Trevor: Books

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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

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by Carol Ann Tomlinson

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The updated second edition of the best-selling classic explains differentiated instruction, provides proven instructional strategies, and illustrates how real teachers are applying differentiation principles and practices.

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Differentiated Classroom, The: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (ASCD)

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Differentiated Classroom, The: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (ASCD) [Tomlinson, Carol, ASCD, The] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Differentiated Classroom, The: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (ASCD)

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Embedded Formative Assessment - practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers 

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Embedded Formative Assessment - practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers 

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by Dylan Wiliam

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If we are to maintain our status as one of the world's leading economies and secure our economic futures, and if we want our students to thrive in the impossibly complex, unpredictable world of the 21st century, we must concentrate on increasing educational achievement by increasing the quality of the teachers in our schools. The author faces this challenge head-on by making a case for the important role of formative assessment in increasing teacher quality and student learning.

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it's viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in-depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

* Presents five key strategies with research evidence to show the impact of each

* Includes over 50 practical techniques for classroom formative assessment

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Educational Achievement Matters
Chapter 2: The Case for Formative Assessment
Chapter 3: Clarifying, Sharing, and Understanding Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Chapter 4: Eliciting Evidence of Learners Achievement
Chapter 5: Providing Feedback That Moves Learning Forward
Chapter 6: Activating Students as Instructional Resources for One Another
Chapter 7: Activating Students as Owners of Their Own Learning
Epilogue
References and Resources

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Embedded Formative Assessment - practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers

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Embedded Formative Assessment - practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers [Dylan Wiliam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Embedded Formative Assessment - practical strategies and tools for K-12 teachers

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Source: Erickson, H. L. (2001). Stirring the Head, Heart a d Soul. Corwin Press, Inc.

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Subject-specific concepts by H. Lynn Erickson

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George Lucas Educational Foundation

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George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Edutopia® and Lucas Education Research™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of the George Lucas Educational Foundation in the U.S. and other countries.

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George Lucas Educational Foundation

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2022

George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Edutopia® and Lucas Education Research™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of the George Lucas Educational Foundation in the U.S. and other countries.

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‘Inquiry is the dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlements and coming to know and understand the world ’ (Alberta Learning, 2004). ’Simply put, inquiry is the personal path of…

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*Effective reading instruction involves a combination of powerful instructional settings. This post is the first in our "What is...?" series, where we define each instructional context that makes up a coherent literacy system.

What is guided reading?

Guided reading is a small-group instructional context in which a teacher supports each reader's development of systems of strategic actions for processing new texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty. During guided reading, students in a small-group setting individually read a text that you have selected at their instructional reading level. You provide teaching across the lesson to support students in building the in-the-head networks of strategic actions for processing increasingly challenging texts. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply that literacy power to all instructional contexts.

Why is guided reading important?

As an instructional context, guided reading:

Supports readers in expanding their processing competencies (in-the-head systems of strategic actions)

Provides a context for responsive teaching - teaching that is grounded in the teacher's detailed knowledge of and respect for each student, supporting the readers' active construction of a processing system

Allows students to engage with a rich variety of texts

Helps students learn to think like proficient readers

Enables students to read more challenging texts with support.

"In guided reading, you meet students where they are and lead them forward with intention and precision." -Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

What does guided reading look like?

A small group of students who are at a similar point in their reading development are seated across from you at a small kidney-shaped table. Each student reads, softly or silently, the same text individually. You guide a discussion of the text meaning and make teaching points based on your observations of the students' reading strengths and needs.
Steps in the guided reading process:

1. Gather information about the readers to identify emphases.

2. Select and analyze texts to use.

3. Introduce the text.

4. Observe children as they read the text individually (support if needed).

5. Invite children to discuss the meaning of the text.

6. Make one or two teaching points.

7. Engage children in letter/word work activity.

8. Extend understanding through writing about reading (optional).

9. Reflect on the lesson and plan the following lesson.

Becoming an effective teacher of guided reading takes time and effort; but the benefits are worth it. As you teach students, you will have the satisfaction of seeing them apply today what you taught yesterday; you will notice behavioral evidence that they are taking on new understandings; and you will see them expand their competencies and move to higher levels of texts.

To learn more about the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection, click the link below.
~The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team
Check out the entire "What is?" blog series:

1. What is Guided Reading?

2. What is Interactive Read-Aloud?

3. What is Shared Reading?

4. What are Reading Minilessons?

5. What is Independent Reading?

6. What are Book Clubs?

7. What is Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study?

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What is guided reading? Why is guided reading important? And what does guided reading look like in the classroom?

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*Effective reading instruction involves a combination of powerful instructional settings. This post is the next in our "What is...?" series, where we define each instructional context that makes up a coherent literacy system.

What are reading minilessons?

As a whole-group instructional context, reading minilessons are concise, explicit lessons with a purposeful application in building your students' independent reading competencies. Each minilesson engages students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their own reading or writing about reading. Often, interactive read-aloud books that students have already heard serve as mentor texts from which they generalize the understanding.

Why are reading minilessons important?

The goal of all reading is the joyful, independent, and meaningful processing of a written text. The key to independent reading is making an explicit connection between all other instructional contexts - interactive read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and book clubs - and the reader's own independent work. Making these explicit links is the goal of minilessons. All teaching, support, and confirmation lead to the individual's successful, independent reading.

"Reading minilessons form the "glue" that connects literacy learning, makes it explicit, and turns it over to students to apply independently." - Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

What do reading minilessons look like?

Minilessons are brief - each one will take approximately five to ten minutes to deliver during whole group time. Usually, you will teach only one focused lesson each day, but minilessons will be logically organized and build on each other. Anchor charts state the minilesson principles and provide a way for you to capture the students' thinking during the lesson and reflect on the learning at the end.
Types of reading minilessons:

Management - These lessons cover routines that are essential to the smooth functioning of the classroom and students' self-management and productivity. Most of your minilessons at the beginning of the school year will focus on management.

Literary Analysis - These lessons build students' awareness of the characteristics of various genres and of the elements of fiction and nonfiction texts. The books that you read during interactive read-aloud and shared reading serve as mentor texts when applying the principles of literary analysis.

Strategies and Skills - While most teaching related to processing texts will take place in guided reading, general lessons can reinforce broad principles of which every reader in the class may need to be reminded.

Writing About Reading - These lessons introduce the reader's notebook and help students use this important tool for reflecting on their reading and documenting their reading life for the year.

The reading minilesson plays a key role in systematic, coherent teaching, all of which is directed toward each reader's developing competencies. Put reading minilessons into action and make learning visible for every child, every day.

To learn more about The Reading Minilessons Books, click the link below.

Also available in convenient eBook format.

~The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team Check out the entire "What is?" blog series:

1. What is Guided Reading?

2. What is Interactive Read-Aloud?

3. What is Shared Reading?

4. What are Reading Minilessons?

5. What is Independent Reading?

6. What are Book Clubs?

7. What is Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study?

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Effective reading instruction involves a combination of powerful instructional settings. This post is the next in our "What is...?" series, where we define each instructional context that makes up a coherent literacy system. What are reading minilessons? As a whole-group instructional context, reading minilessons are concise, explicit lessons with a purposeful application in building your students' independent reading competencies.

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by Helen E. Buckley

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"The Little Boy"  by Helen E. Buckley (1961) Video by Tom Kapanka (1991)

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

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Dive into inquiry: an interview with T. MacKenzie

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What you will learn from Dive Into Inquiry with Trevor Mackenzie

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Language teaching: a workshop lesson structure

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Language teaching: a workshop lesson structure

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Teaching: Marzano's High Yield Instructional Strategies

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Teaching: Marzano's High Yield Instructional Strategies

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How to create your first Mentimeter presentation - Mentimeter & Menti Tutorial

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SFS collective stratgeis in closing the gaps between stages