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Homework spot check when students get below an 80% on an assessment. If homework is incomplete, it negatively impacts their grade. If they receive an 80% or above, a homework scores were marked at 100% and not checked for completion.

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Flexibility within our department to share our classrooms spaces

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Flexibility within our department to share our classrooms spaces

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Desk arrangements (horseshoe); auditorium style (trios

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- active flexibility to student interest in our project/activity creation

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- active flexibility to student interest in our project/activity creation

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- build rapport with students to assist in engagement

- promoting the production of the upper-level classes to better motivate lower-level students

- allowing and somewhat forcing productive struggle so that students can experience what success feels like as a direct result of their struggle

- our work is designed to often involve collaborative work

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- continue developing feedback practices to students

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- continue developing feedback practices to students

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- focus students equally on reflecting on work they are proud of AND what they maybe are not proud of or don't like about their performance.

- continue to engage students in honest evaluation of other student project work as it relates to what we had intended to show or know

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Engagement through competition (Blooket, Kahoot)

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Engagement through competition (Blooket, Kahoot)

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- engaging students who don't know why their in the classroom

- managing students performing at different levels to prevent boredom.

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Engagement through face to face contact (not always using technology)

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Engagement through face to face contact (not always using technology)

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Relating to student's lives (real life situations)

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Relating to student's lives (real life situations)

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Relevance

Job Skills

Connecting to work skills

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Doesn't count towards graduation, kids don't care

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Doesn't count towards graduation, kids don't care

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This created student led questions as they discovered more about the story.

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Engagement is higher in LL PE with appropriate PE resources

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Greeting students at the door, asking questions that require deeper thought and analysis, relaxed & student centered classroom environment, creating opportunities for students to share their ideas to demonstrate skills and knowledge, making the content relatable to the students and real world, and offering diverse courses to allow students to become well rounded, contributing members to our society.

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Student engagement is up when basic needs are met

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Student engagement is up when basic needs are met

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positive feedback from class Instagram, positive feedback from hand-on projects/assessments, students wanted to jig saw an assignment and share out instead of working independently, lab based assessments, working out in community/ field experience

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positive feedback from class Instagram, positive feedback from hand-on projects/assessments, students wanted to jig saw an assignment and share out instead of working independently, lab based assessments, working out in community/ field experience

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choice boards, anchor charts, brain breaks, "I'm done, now what" area, photo contest

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choice boards, anchor charts, brain breaks, "I'm done, now what" area, photo contest

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Have more seating arrangements and grouping diversity throughout a course.

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phones, bathroom misuse/ constant asking to go to the bathroom, picking and choosing work to complete

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phones, bathroom misuse/ constant asking to go to the bathroom, picking and choosing work to complete

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Gimket Quizizz Kahoot always works with and without student competition.

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Changing Wellness and activity to separate the 4 classes a little more

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Changing Wellness and activity to separate the 4 classes a little more

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Helps with Reinforcement of Classroom rules

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Job Coaches

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Planning is challenging based on changing needs of students

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Planning is challenging based on changing needs of students

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Focus on my own joy in teaching; share stories and relationship building; older games like “Pass It Up”

If your kids are talking-they are learning; using more collaborative work and review games; 40 sentences summing up the main points, cut into strips, place them into cups, student draw and then “pin the tail on the painting”

Read it - Translate it - Pick out 3 pieces of evidence to tell whether they are “Healthy or Unhealthy”

Use the Whiteboards because more will answer on a board and hold them up. There is more participation when it doesn’t have to be verbal

Use of packets but student led and partner work

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Stricter policy regarding cell phones (school wide push, constant reminders to get off their phones hurts the teacher/student relationship)

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Stricter policy regarding cell phones (school wide push, constant reminders to get off their phones hurts the teacher/student relationship)

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Finding ways to keep students engaged with multimedia formats and other technology, enforcing cell phone/headphone/student electronic code of conduct, how to deal with student apathy in the classroom.

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development of new homework/latework department policy

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development of new homework/latework department policy

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work with students on developing soft skills (highlight a different soft skill each week or month)

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work with students on developing soft skills (highlight a different soft skill each week or month)

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Cell phones/air pods/chromebooks not being used for classroom activities

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Cell phones/air pods/chromebooks not being used for classroom activities

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students not meeting prerequisites and then not being successful in future classes

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students not meeting prerequisites and then not being successful in future classes

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apathy towards life beyond high school, poor attendance

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apathy towards life beyond high school, poor attendance

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Getting kids to understand the importance of formative work or the need to do homework.

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Cell phones; Social media; Distractions that take over;

The amount of time it takes to teach the skills they are lacking

“How do we reach that hard-to-reach kid?”

“How do we look at the summative assessment and lessons needed but implement these ideas without sacrificing content needed to be covered?”

Things that are normally taught at home are NOT being taught at home. We are finding our teaching time to be teaching these skills.

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Homework completion

Students just passing wksht around

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Using PWR to focus on skills employers will want to see (collaboration, problem solving, etc)

Using Leanna’s idea of checking HW only if they get less than 80%

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Student Awareness of the Problem of Earbuds interfering with Understanding 

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Student Awareness of the Problem of Earbuds interfering with Understanding 

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Students think High School is irrelevant to their needs and how society works today, which gives them apathy towards education.

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Question box: If the students are too shy to ask questions in front of the whole class, they can instead place their questions in a “question box” (think of a suggestion box for reference) and we as teachers can address that question for the whole class.

Weekly goal setting - having students set a goal for the week and check in midweek and end of the week on how they have progressed

Light instrumental background music/environmental lighting.

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Connect 4 review game

Gamification “Level Up” points for soft skills

Math Medic allows for productive struggle and discussion

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Using SEL Poster to Gauge Student Emotional Status

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Using SEL Poster to Gauge Student Emotional Status

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Hanging in the room where student put a post it on it to gauge how they are feeling.

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Both teacher-led and student led classrooms effectively engaged 95.2% of minority students.

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Both teacher-led and student led classrooms effectively engaged 95.2% of minority students.

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Students given the opportunity to discuss/collaborate during class

Teachers monitoring student progress consistently

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Scaffolding reading by watching a part of a movie before we read the text

Binder checks periodically rather than daily checks--helps students who are absent, helps deter piles from accumulating

First five minute chats-helps to energize and engage students (I-time, you-time, all of us-time/can be reversed & changed up depending on the group)

Hexagon get to know you/team builder

Socratic Seminars

Lit Circles

Student choice grouping, but with an element of teacher control

Highlighting/stickers/stamps/post-it notes

Jigsaw

Rules and expectations/pie chart/non negotiables

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Shape/color sticket groupings

Additional discussion techniques

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Teaching kids the importance of soft skills is nearly impossible because of Harlem's educational approach of no true deadlines and its allowance for students to turn in work at any time during the semester, fostering a culture of late submissions and a concerning lack of accountability.

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Cell phones

Bathroom breaks

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Challenge for teachers to enforce existing cell phone policy.  Need to effectively control cell phone usage eliminate the use of headphones altogether.

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Continue to do what we have been doing well…only better. Encourage administration to come up with a plan for the entire school to effectively control cell phone and headphone usage.

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Have developed new ideas for implement employability skills into the classroom.

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Have developed new ideas for implement employability skills into the classroom.

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Help with Formative Completion

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Instead of just solving simple problems, use logic situations and pictures to solve equations

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Using student names for each hours warm ups; keep students as a part of the curriculum

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Using student names for each hours warm ups; keep students as a part of the curriculum

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In groups; students create questions and create the test together.

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Idea to have a monthly focus on a PWR skills/standards. Maybe building wide or department.

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To teach real life workplace skills (soft, deadlines)

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Teaching students how to communicate to teachers to meet deadlines

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Teaching students how to communicate to teachers to meet deadlines