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Increasing Administration content knowledge in the impact of their initiatives or focus.
Increasing Administration content knowledge in the impact of their initiatives or focus.
Discussions on Data & how it's used, All contents seen the same in regards to how to target needs...not all the same , face to face meetings with our administration, finding common ground Figure 19 & Social studies skills, discussion of what's tested v. What's been tested, understanding the various ways it can be tested...offering training, training on how to do critically thinking & understanding we don't build on ourselves...limited vertical alignment, pacing issues, teachers having lack of conceptual context,  how social studies & ELAR can collaborate, do learning walks together, build trust & relationship, partner with administration to review the TEKS, partner to discuss what it should look like, work together on how to help teachers with teaching students transfer, help administration understand the strength of using the curriculum, help them understand we are multidisciplinary, take minutes of PLC meetings & share with administration...concise notes & what everyone agreed to, create one pagers in color & follow up,

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4wFTACpm6oJa0k1TUN1a0MzSkE/view?usp=sharing

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Alternative to Lecturing?

Talk Read, Talk Write

Show teacher examples of group work/ strategies working at lower grade levels

Centers for students to cycle through

Interactive piece for each lesson/lecture

Breaking up PPT for students to look at in groups

Using Nearpod for group interaction

Sharing lessons through social media (posting to each other) see session tomorrow for more info

Fakebook App (closed environment) to assist students in sharing posts about content

Chart student engagement per class period (10 minutes in, we minutes, etc.) to show teachers that lecture isn't most effective way.

Asking students what they remember most next day after student centered activity

Pairing lectures with engaging activities

Varying activities throughout year to ensure all students are engaged

Covering material (lecture) doesn't mean you actually taught material

Flipped classroom? Activities in class, reading at home? (One school doesn't allow students to participate in school activity until home piece is done and school activity counts for large portion of grade so students are motivated to compete home piece)

Finding appropriate primary sources?

Planning, time available to change classroom

Want kids to think like historian, need prior knowledge and access to materials. 8th grade material isn't as interesting to kids as 11th.

8th grade conceptually instead of chronological. Sequencing questions?

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Small Group Instruction / Differentiation

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High/Low Stakes Writing at all Levels (AP, ELL, ect.)

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Improving Readability on 8th Grade STAAR

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Improving Readability on 8th Grade STAAR

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- What is the process to have a thesaurus added as an accepted designated support for all students?
We have emailed Brad Vasil.

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In Elementary ELA is embedded

Less Structured time

Main Goal is Student work

That Workshop Book by Samantha Bennett

Catch and Release

Unit View

DBQ mini workshop

Modified Block has different constraints

How to / time

Talk read/Talk write By Nancy Motley with SIOP

Getting students to think like a historian

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919801&bcid=25919801&rssid=25919791&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Ftm%2F%3Fuuid%3D732BC326-0CAA-11E2-BF47-098101ADD654

What are the students doing? Not what is the teacher doing?

Loose Adaptation?

Using Historical Thinking Skills John Irish

Combine Performance Assessments with HTS

I didn't understand it until I wrote it down. ASCD

TOOLKIT TEXT. Stephanie Harvey

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-Each team selected their top 16
-Fisco ISD already did this process
-CBAs have 2 questions per Power Standard and one for orhers
***Prioritization not elimination***
-the need for vertical alignment one person from each grade level
-there is a rational for each power standard to help with consensus
-Power standards drive your intervention and differentiation
-power standards help to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum

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Big ideas and concepts need to anchor the TEKS..
Growing World presence 1970 1990

A new century turns
1990- 2000s
Economic theme as a structure. US role in a global eco system . Maybe connecting the idea of a growing presence in the world.

Free Trade
US 17 government control of economy
Domestic policies
Political conflicts
interaction between President and Congress
Use of PEGS/ ESPN
Are there themes in previous units that could be repeated?