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De-Blocking would support some of our scholars who struggle with the long uninterrupted periods of time for writing and reading.  Each chunk of ~25 minutes is important to scholars, but together, back-to-back in periods, it can be challenging.

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De-Blocking would support some of our scholars who struggle with the long uninterrupted periods of time for writing and reading.  Each chunk of ~25 minutes is important to scholars, but together, back-to-back in periods, it can be challenging.

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Blocking allows us to more easily embed SEE learning kinds of work (Ex: 15 min of self-reflection & talk on strategies to be independent in class) (Ex: 15 min to talk about what I've learned about how we in this nation think & talk about race through All American Boys or The Hate You Give, & what I've learned about myself or others around me.)  This might not fit in a 50 minute schedule easily because it would take 1/3 or 1/2 a period, making  it hard to plan around.

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Blocking allows us to more easily embed SEE learning kinds of work (Ex: 15 min of self-reflection & talk on strategies to be independent in class) (Ex: 15 min to talk about what I've learned about how we in this nation think & talk about race through All American Boys or The Hate You Give, & what I've learned about myself or others around me.)  This might not fit in a 50 minute schedule easily because it would take 1/3 or 1/2 a period, making  it hard to plan around.

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Blocking allows us flexibility.  We can do a small ML on reading, then provide ind. reading time, then talk time, then writing, then self-reflection.  Hard to break up two 50 minutes periods in chunks like that which fit the periods every day.

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Blocking allows us flexibility.  We can do a small ML on reading, then provide ind. reading time, then talk time, then writing, then self-reflection.  Hard to break up two 50 minutes periods in chunks like that which fit the periods every day.

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Right now, many students don't see the instructional value of independent reading or the start of our classes.  Those late are often saying, "but I'm not really missing anything."  A change to de-blocking may help us make reading and writing classes more distinct.  Ex: ind. reading time as instructional time - a time to apply strategies taught and a time to do conferring or small groups and a time where I as a reader am getting better.  

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Right now, many students don't see the instructional value of independent reading or the start of our classes.  Those late are often saying, "but I'm not really missing anything."  A change to de-blocking may help us make reading and writing classes more distinct.  Ex: ind. reading time as instructional time - a time to apply strategies taught and a time to do conferring or small groups and a time where I as a reader am getting better.  

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De-Blocking does not change our given time, so we could still provide independent reading time.

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De-Blocking does not change our given time, so we could still provide independent reading time.

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One positive of de-blocking as above allows new groupings, new dynamics.  Right now, some groups of scholars with IEPs grouped together ends up in a classroom with many classroom behavior challenges - distracting heavily from instruction.

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One positive of de-blocking as above allows new groupings, new dynamics.  Right now, some groups of scholars with IEPs grouped together ends up in a classroom with many classroom behavior challenges - distracting heavily from instruction.

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One way that de-blocking could be done is that literacy teachers still have the same number of students  (not ~130+). This could be done by scheduling all a teacher's Reading classes in the morning and all a teacher's Writing classes in the morning.  Same kids, but mixing the classroom grouping.

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One way that de-blocking could be done is that literacy teachers still have the same number of students  (not ~130+). This could be done by scheduling all a teacher's Reading classes in the morning and all a teacher's Writing classes in the morning.  Same kids, but mixing the classroom grouping.

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One strength of de-blocking is that it allows us flexibility in scheduling scholars who need a schedule change (for behavior, for IEP service, for Reading/Math Empowerment).  Right now, some classes get packed, some don't, when we try to do these things.  Sometimes it's just not possible.

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One strength of de-blocking is that it allows us flexibility in scheduling scholars who need a schedule change (for behavior, for IEP service, for Reading/Math Empowerment).  Right now, some classes get packed, some don't, when we try to do these things.  Sometimes it's just not possible.

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Blocking allows us to link reading and writing instruction and also provides uninterrupted reading time for many of our students who do not read consistently at home.  I'm not sure de-blocking will support ELA instruction in the ways that our systems are designed to do so.

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Blocking allows us to link reading and writing instruction and also provides uninterrupted reading time for many of our students who do not read consistently at home.  I'm not sure de-blocking will support ELA instruction in the ways that our systems are designed to do so.

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I'm wondering about how ML co-taught classes will be able to continue to be scheduled intentionally with both the students receiving ML services and the gen ed students in the classes. If the students are not the same in each co-taught section, I worry about ideas of being in "lock step" for each class. This would not support Denny as working toward being an anti-racist school because it might not allow for differentiation between classes.