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English: diary throughout year to document growth throughout year
All subjects: a pre and a post assessment to judge growth
Experience growth and share
Audio or visual recording to track progress throughout year

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- Using tech not to replace non-tech assignments, but modify the assignment so they can have more reasons to explain their "why"

- Let students take risks through projects and other assessments

- Problem-solving situations

- Student-driven questions

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English: diary throughout year to document growth throughout year
All subjects: a pre and a post assessment to judge growth

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-standards based reporting practies
-taking risks in teaching practice
-project based learning
-pilots, willingness to do something new and possibly fail
-explore core practices - what is the why?
-venue to share instructional strategies
-observing, coaching culture
-time to collaborate
-putting two disciplines together
-balance old and new practices
-value student feedback
-relevant lessons to students and community

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English: diary throughout year to document growth throughout year
All subjects: a pre and a post assessment to judge growth

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- sharing/presenting at dept. meetings
-- backwards design at start of a unit, est. priorities up front
- where do we want to be at the end and how will we get there?
- Project based learning so that students can show a product
- skills-based areas use "Can do" statements to self-evalutate what they can do, check-list would be an artifact
- student collaboration, students can take understanding of ancient world and apply/articulte connection to modern world,
- PD targeted in content areas, in new innovative teaching methods tailored to the content area.
- student showcases can be artifacts
- Cross- curricular collaboration between SS/English, for example.
- make content meetings not on Mondays or Fridays are often missed
-interaction with community, using math to solve problems in the community, for example. Making connections to real world with Math.

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-cross curricula discussions
-access to latest research and innovations
-in house professional development initiatives (leaving with a concrete product)
-best practices
-depth of learning - dig deeper
-make connections and relevant to their lives
-student choice - project oriented approach
-collaboration and discussion with colleagues
- share more with other grade levels across subjects (maybe at the beginning of staff meetings)

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Products created through student choice.
Vertical content connections
Collaboration
Student belief in relevance of instruction
Focus on specific
Involve all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy

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-Plan well with common planning time
-Experiments with acceptance of failure at first
-Pilot programs
-Collaborative work
-Backwards design
-Flipped classroom
-Real life learning
-Student portfolios to archive
-professional development
-PBLs

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Archiving growth in different subject areas through the use of digital portfolio and work samples.

Student driven projects - students make the choices.

Cross curricular collaboration

Backwards design

Colleagues visiting other colleagues to get ideas.

Vertical communication

Differentiated assessments

Authentic assessments

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Continued PD
Student work
Published work
Team/personal reflections
Evidence of student excitement
Opportunities for student choice
Tweets
Examples of individual student growth
DLD

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In Social Studies: Skills vs. content: research skills, presentation skills, learn how to write etc.

In Math: teach kids how to think in a systematic and methodical way. The lessons are the infrastructure that you need to access the global ideas. Grade 6 is the beginning of thinking

In Language: the speaking element being the focus...the most authentic engagement we can strive for

Striving to lecture less: still deliver the content in a meaningful way, work in teams to problem solve: multi-modal way

In English: there is a skill in literature:it's a part of our culture. A sense of responsibility on the teacher to share....