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Instructional coaches partner with teachers to help them improve teaching and learning so students become more successful.

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Instructional coaches partner with teachers to help them improve teaching and learning so students become more successful.

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I'm really happy with how the art show turned out - especially the students' gasps as they turned down the hallway and first saw it.

-Alex

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Every year I have the kids complete a G&T year-long debrief about all the things that we learned and experienced, not only academically but social and emotions wins and losses. My favorite question I have them reflect on is, "What was your favorite failure in G&T this year?" The prompt lets the kids know that failure is not only normal but expected in life AND that through failure, we learn and grow.

-Nicole Goldsmith

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Instructional Coaching End of Year Survey

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Feedback greatly informs my reflection on the past year as well my planning and preparation for the upcoming school year. Staff members that have participated in 1:1 time in including coaching cycles and/or planning time have received credit. I would love to gather some informal information about how I can best support the Oceanport staff moving forward, thanks!

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We play a class trivia game and create questions that review our class memories throughout the year. We also love Teach the Teacher. This gives students an opportunity to showcase a special talent or interest. Julia & Natalie

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We play a class trivia game and create questions that review our class memories throughout the year. We also love Teach the Teacher. This gives students an opportunity to showcase a special talent or interest. Julia & Natalie

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My favorite year end activity is Camp Read A Lot. I transform the desks into tents, put a "campfire" in the center, hand out flashlights and carpet squares and the students spend some time reading in their tents. This year we added some smores to the mix - a small sample of Golden Grahams, chocolate chips and marshmallows. Happy to share my starry night background and the link to the YouTube camp sounds to anyone interested!

-Kim Rajner

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My favorite end of the year activity is Teach the Teacher day! Each student chooses a topic that they want to teach to the class, then they create a lesson plan, presentation, and assessment (usually a Kahoot or Blookit). It is super fun and I love getting the chance to learn from them.

-Adriana Holland

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Sydney Watkins and Cassondra Runko

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Sydney Watkins and Cassondra Runko

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Engagement and Higher Order Thinking with Pear Deck

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Engagement and Higher Order Thinking with Pear Deck

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Pear Deck: Engagement and Higher Order Thinking

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Julia McDonnell and Erica Dunn

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Julia McDonnell and Erica Dunn

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I love doing Blackout Poetry with students. They always love making them. In the past, I've done them with printed pages, old book pages, and students have even created some digitally. They are always surprised by what they can do. -Erica Dunn

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Heather Daley &Adriana Holland

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Heather Daley &Adriana Holland

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I really like the See, Think, Wonder routine in the classroom. This routine is part of our new science program and I feel like it is something the students are not used to using. The more we can incorporate it into other subject areas the more familiar they will become with the strategy. I feel like a good place to incorporate this strategy more next year is in writing and social studies giving them an opportunity to write about what they see. As we become stronger in using the new science program the opportunity to use the See, Think, Wonder will become more apparent to us as .

-Natalie

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I really like the Compass Points idea. I think it is a really interesting way to look at multiple perspectives an it also ties into the geography unit I taught earlier this year so students already have background knowledge on what a compass is and how its used. I like the clear points of what you Need to know, what Excites you, what are the Steps for Action, and what Worries or concerns you. I like the idea of having students write this out on post its and then sharing as a class their ideas.

-Adriana Holland

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I really like this strategy as we are learning about shapes and their attributes in kindergarten. It is a great way to get them thinking and to find different ways that each shape "doesn't belong". I like that there can be more than one correct answer as long as they can support their choices.

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I used AI to write example essays for social studies DBQ - very useful! - Heather Daley 

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I used AI to write example essays for social studies DBQ - very useful! - Heather Daley 

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Check out this Presentation designed by Colleen LaSalle.

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8th grade used CHAT-bot when students were revising and editing their position papers. Went very well.  - Heather Daley 

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8th grade used CHAT-bot when students were revising and editing their position papers. Went very well.  - Heather Daley 

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Erica Spenard and Kim Rajner

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Erica Spenard and Kim Rajner

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I'm a huge fan of anticipation guides when starting a new book. What a great way for students to see what they've learned from reading informational text. I'll often use key points from their reading and turn them into true/false statements. Students will be able to record their answers in a column for prereading and one for after reading. Often when completing it after reading, we'll change the false statements to make them true using our new knowledge and the text for help. -Kim Rajner

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For my nonfiction unit, I love the idea of making a web to see what students already know about the different topics before we begin our research. It would be interesting to see what they already know versus what they learn by the end of the unit and how their thinking about the topic changed over the course of the unit. -Erica Dunn

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Love the Minds-Eye Strategy! I am starting a novel study with my 4th grade group and this is the perfect strategy to use with them. The main character has a brother that is autistic, and this is a great way for me to determine what their prior knowledge is and what conceptual understanding is before reading. Nicole G 

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Love the Minds-Eye Strategy! I am starting a novel study with my 4th grade group and this is the perfect strategy to use with them. The main character has a brother that is autistic, and this is a great way for me to determine what their prior knowledge is and what conceptual understanding is before reading. Nicole G 

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For science, I love the idea of making a web of all the things students remember from a topic studied in a previous year. We have done this before with matter but definitely can utilize it more. Would also love if you have any tips for making it stick for math concepts! -Erica Spenard

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For science, I love the idea of making a web of all the things students remember from a topic studied in a previous year. We have done this before with matter but definitely can utilize it more. Would also love if you have any tips for making it stick for math concepts! -Erica Spenard

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Love the anticipation guide idea! We just started a novel study and we found that we needed to spend more time discussing the setting to build that background knowledge of the time period. (mid 1800s)- Julia 

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Love the anticipation guide idea! We just started a novel study and we found that we needed to spend more time discussing the setting to build that background knowledge of the time period. (mid 1800s)- Julia 

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Shannon Frietsch and Emily Ianotta

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Shannon Frietsch and Emily Ianotta

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Check out this design designed by Colleen LaSalle.

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I'm going to use the Fact or Fib to introduce artists in class! - Alex Canessa

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I'm going to use the Fact or Fib to introduce artists in class! - Alex Canessa

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I really like the always , sometimes, and never idea. I feel like yo can use it in all subject areas. 

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I really like the always , sometimes, and never idea. I feel like yo can use it in all subject areas. 

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Erica Dunn and AnnaMarie Harwood

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Erica Dunn and AnnaMarie Harwood

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Cassondra Runko and Annamarie Hardwood

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🎉Winners: 🎉 Cassondra Runko and Annamarie Hardwood

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I recently used Priority Questioning in science to introduce the phenomenon with my classes. Students were tasked with creating questions based on three photos related to our new lesson. Some of the questions students were asking were closed-questions, so then it allowed us to have a discussion about why open-questions are better. Overall, the activity went really well, and we have referenced the questions the students came up with throughout our lessons.

-Cassondra

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Diffit-- Wow!! I have just started exploring, but this is amazing! What a wonderful find. This will be an amazing help to my  resource room students in social studies and science class. This is definitely something we need to consider subscribing to schoolwide!       Annamarie 

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Diffit-- Wow!! I have just started exploring, but this is amazing! What a wonderful find. This will be an amazing help to my  resource room students in social studies and science class. This is definitely something we need to consider subscribing to schoolwide!       Annamarie 

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Sign up for a 15 minute brainstorming conversation

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Sign up for a 15 minute brainstorming conversation

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We have been using a color coded vocab wheel for vocabulary for the past 2 years and we feel it has been successful and the kids enjoy doing it. Finding ways to make it more fun like the roll a word are always helpful. Our class especially loves making vocabulary comics and we do too. We have also had them find their own words from a text to add to vocab wheels from a book or reading which is great for letting them take ownership.

-Natalie

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I agree with Adrianna that when we look at our iReady data our kids appear to be lowest overall in vocab. There are some great, fun ideas to work with vocabulary. I especially like the vocabulary choice board. It includes options for all modalities! -Annamarie 

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I agree with Adrianna that when we look at our iReady data our kids appear to be lowest overall in vocab. There are some great, fun ideas to work with vocabulary. I especially like the vocabulary choice board. It includes options for all modalities! -Annamarie 

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I especially love the "Create" vocabulary ideas!

A. Canessa

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I like these vocabulary ideas. After looking at the winter iReady Diagnostic for reading, all of my students showed deficits in the area of vocabulary so I'm excited to utilize some of these ideas. I love that the activities are leveled, so I can use them with all of my students depending on where they are at.

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I like these vocabulary ideas. After looking at the winter iReady Diagnostic for reading, all of my students showed deficits in the area of vocabulary so I'm excited to utilize some of these ideas. I love that the activities are leveled, so I can use them with all of my students depending on where they are at.

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-A Holland

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🎉Winners: Kim Kallok and Emily Ianotta!🎉

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🎉Winners: Kim Kallok and Emily Ianotta!🎉

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Check out this design designed by Colleen LaSalle.

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Copy of Public Vocabulary Choice Board @mrshowell24

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🎉Winners: Julia McDonnell and Amy Eklof🎉

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🎉Winners: Julia McDonnell and Amy Eklof🎉

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I found it interesting how iReady can help group your students by skill! If you use their grade-level scaffolding under reports, there is an option to select which skill they would be working on. I tried it for reading. The mixed groupings worked really well with my bunch!

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I came across this Edutopia article and a great resource for goal setting. 

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I came across this Edutopia article and a great resource for goal setting. 

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🎉Winners: Nicole Goldsmith and Jamie Hahn!🎉

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🎉Winners: Nicole Goldsmith and Jamie Hahn!🎉

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🎉Winners: Erica Dunn and Emily Ianotta!🎉

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🎉Winners: Erica Dunn and Emily Ianotta!🎉

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Check out this design designed by Colleen LaSalle.

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This reminds me of a fun cooperative learning structure from Kagan that I recently tried in my classroom.  Its called Quiz-Quiz-Trade.  Using question cards, students quiz a partner, get quizzed by a partner, and then trade cards to repeat the process with a new partner. I taught the structure of the activity with "Would you rather..." cards.  Then later that week we used critical thinking cards to compare/contrast growing up in 2023 and growing up in the 1600s.  So fun and all were engaged!

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This reminds me of a fun cooperative learning structure from Kagan that I recently tried in my classroom.  Its called Quiz-Quiz-Trade.  Using question cards, students quiz a partner, get quizzed by a partner, and then trade cards to repeat the process with a new partner. I taught the structure of the activity with "Would you rather..." cards.  Then later that week we used critical thinking cards to compare/contrast growing up in 2023 and growing up in the 1600s.  So fun and all were engaged!

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Jan. 5th 2024- iReady Data Chats and Coaching Cycle 3

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Jan. 5th 2024- iReady Data Chats and Coaching Cycle 3

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Random Partner and Team Generator: Kim Kallok

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Random Partner and Team Generator: Kim Kallok

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Trying a new strategy in math! BTC: Building Thinking Classrooms

To help implement Building Thinking Classrooms I found a random team and partner generator. It's quick and easy. I love showing kids their teams at the start of a task.

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Random Lists - The random generator of everything

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Behold the unbiasedness power of random selection! Decision making made easy! Check out our premade random lists or use our tools to randomize your own content.

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How do you maximize wait time in your classroom? Comment below for strategies and techniques you use

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How do you maximize wait time in your classroom? Comment below for strategies and techniques you use

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Did you know that you can use Newsela Data to analyze Reading Skills similar to iReady?

Simply click on Binder > Reading Summary > Reading Skills. This gives you a color-coded breakdown of your students' performance in each of the Newsela skill areas. This is another great source of data for any teacher using Newsela!

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I find the iReady groupings helpful and pretty accurate in placing my students in smaller groups to target skills they need in both math and ELA. It is a great starting point and is something I can use with flexibility.

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I really love using the iReady data to create small instructional groups. It's a really great resource to quickly make groups based on needs and students' next steps in their learning. I love it because it saves me time having to dig through their data - it's already done for me.

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I love using the iReady instructional groupings to create small groups in ELA. I also like how it provides different resources for the groups that you can use and even has different levels and scaffolds within those resources.

-Erica Dunn

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I am loving this! Students have found TAG useful in both Reading and Writing partnership conferences!

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I enjoyed reviewing the iReady goal setting forms for the students to use. I really liked using your goal setting slide as a template for the slide I used with my students last year, but I am wondering whether to use the slide or one of these forms this year. It's nice to have options! Thanks!

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I love using the instructional groupings on iReady to help guide my small groups. After working with students in the groups recommended by iReady, I can always make a few changes based on their performance in class that might not match their diagnostic performance. It is a great starting point at the beginning of a unit before I know how the kids will perform!

-Amanda Ianucilli

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I love the "How did you grow as a mathematician today?" choice board. I like that it gives the students choices on how to reflect rather than just asking "what did you learn today?"

Amanda Ianucilli

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I like the idea of using road signs that align with students' comfort levels, knowledge, etc. with a topic.  I also like the idea of color coded turn in bins for exit tickets.
Erica Dunn

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Making the mind shift to MEASURING student learning 

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Making the mind shift to MEASURING student learning 

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Making this my primary thought when I create formative assessments is the game changer. Nicole Goldsmith

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I liked the idea of different colored turn in baskets that matched their understanding of the lesson . This would be useful for exit tickets .  Jamie Hahn

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I've been implementing rubrics for self-assessment in a variety of ways. This way I can get an idea of how my students feel about the strategy or skill that I'm teaching. I've also used the smiley face self assessment with a student who struggles with vocalizing their thoughts and it has been super helpful in enabling conversation based on their response.

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I saw something recently that I want to implement in the classroom for writing in kindergarten. It is called a "bump up wall" where you have examples of work on the wall ranging from nothing on the paper all the way to full illustrations with colors, labels, and two sentences. When you conference with students you can discuss where they think their work falls on the bump up wall. Once they identify where they fall within the range of writing pieces, then you can challenge them to bump it to bring it to the next level. I think it's a great way for students to visually see what you expect their work to look like by the end of the year and also gives them something to continually reach for and adds another level of challenge differentiated for each child. The writing paper will have rubrics on them as well that you can discuss with students but the visual component is great for them to use as a guide when evaluating their own work.

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I love the idea of examples of success criteria posted in the classroom. We have also been using labels in student notebooks that have a checklist/example of what we expect and will be grading on. Students self-assess, and then we assess using the same rubric/checklist!

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I love the idea of examples of success criteria posted in the classroom. We have also been using labels in student notebooks that have a checklist/example of what we expect and will be grading on. Students self-assess, and then we assess using the same rubric/checklist!

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I think this is a great strategy for teaching students how to kindly critique their classmates artwork. - Alex

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Love the TAG sentence stems! Would love to make that into bookmark for a quick visual prompt during a peer conference. -Julia M.

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I love how they use the TAG strategy schoolwide. I think it allows the students to be more versed in the strategy and even more comfortable, because they use it again and again. It's common language for them.