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Relationships/Asset Focus/Identity
Teachers will construct a portrait of each reader though running records, performance assessments, as well as studies of behavior.

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Asset Focused
Progress monitoring tools are used to determine small group topics as well as mini lessons.

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Teachers must be aware of their own vulnerabilities and comfort level with certain types of small groups and be willing to leave the safety of what they've always done to try something new that may be of greater benefit to a student.  #loosenyourgrip  #fearisoverrated
#nooneisgoingtodieifwetryitanotherway
#thisaintyourgrandmaspublicschooling

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Offers engagement at it is "heavy with kid work and low on adult talk"

Also rigor by being avoiding too much support in a book introduction or as they read....students need to struggle productively.

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Collaborate and communicate with other invested adults: offering multiple perspectives, increases rigor and relationships- Giving each other permission to respond to the needs of the students in their classroom

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A time for teachers to consider students vulnerabilities and provide some protective risk factors to create efficacious readers.

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You need to know your students' assets and risk factors before you make decisions about the best type of small group strategies you will employ. #knowyourkids #knowyourreaders

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Conferring and small groups provides cognitive engagement- how do we add in affective engagement?

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Nicole's quote "Predictability in structure - is this a protective factor?"

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Nicole's quote "Predictability in structure - is this a protective factor?"

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Makes me think about the famous Don Graves quote "Predictable structures create an environment where unpredictable thinking can happen."

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Vulnerability and Rigor
The structures are research based, but teachers have to feel safe enough to reflect on where they need additional support.
"...school districts are wise to invest a significant amount of time and energy into strengthening classroom teaching and learning."

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Conferring - the ultimate tool in knowing our students deeply - all about deep relationships  

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Conferring - the ultimate tool in knowing our students deeply - all about deep relationships  

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Relationships & Engagement live throughout conferring

Rigor, especially through metacognitive conversations

"How's it going? What's feeling tough?"---these 2 questions can address all 6 themes

Knowing students' assets, through a deep relationship, is required in effective conferring.

"deep listening"
"muddle alongside"-- a shared struggle which develops relationship and rigor

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How can we use the student practice time to study our students and find out what they are doing as readers to inform tomorrow's mini-lesson and beyond.

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Providing access to broad variety of texts- how to support students with choice to create academic identity and cultural identity