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What is one actionable next step you plan to take in your classroom to better facilitate self-paced learning?

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What is one actionable next step you plan to take in your classroom to better facilitate self-paced learning?

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Some of the students use this daily and self-moderate pace

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Some of the students use this daily and self-moderate pace

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The students that really need to use this don't

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The students that really need to use this don't

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It's helped some of my students better understand where in the content they are ESPECIALLY when they have been absent for a couple of days.

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I pair/group students that have different skills and they work together to get things done. This allows them to bounce ideas of each other and show off their strengths. 

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I pair/group students that have different skills and they work together to get things done. This allows them to bounce ideas of each other and show off their strengths. 

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Putting the assignments up on Monday in order has been a success. It allows students to move as fast as they want.

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Putting the assignments up on Monday in order has been a success. It allows students to move as fast as they want.

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Trying to find the right mix where students can work together. 

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Trying to find the right mix where students can work together. 

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I have found that if classifications are public students almost exclusively will only do must-do assignments. When they are private I am able to have individual conversations for those that need to focus on only the essentials. How could classifications help increase student participation?

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Trying to motivate the students to do the "side quests" 

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Trying to motivate the students to do the "side quests" 

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One Challenge is that middle schoolers confuse themselves and try to work out of order.

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One Challenge is that middle schoolers confuse themselves and try to work out of order.

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even with soft zeroes or rewards, the students still lack motivation

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even with soft zeroes or rewards, the students still lack motivation

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Some of my students still need many, MAny, MANY, reminders to check it daily as well as our gradebook. I post mine on a screen and go over it each class and I still have some students ask me what they should be doing.....

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Many students try to opt-out of my bonus quests even though they have time and ability to do them.

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Students just want to get in the gradebook and complete assignments, they don't want to work through the lesson as it's been designed.

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Students just want to get in the gradebook and complete assignments, they don't want to work through the lesson as it's been designed.

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Having the progress tracker up and finished on Monday has helped my students organize their week. They are better able to work with the flow of the week when they know what to expect.

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It helps my kids when I post it daily so they can see where we are, where we were and where we're going for the week.

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I can log in to each teacher's Schoology and see exactly what students should be completing for the week. Teachers have done a fabulous job creating Weekly Quest that help students, parents and leadership.  

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I can log in to each teacher's Schoology and see exactly what students should be completing for the week. Teachers have done a fabulous job creating Weekly Quest that help students, parents and leadership.  

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Adding extra bonuses like a few extra bonus points to whoever finishes first or a piece of candy helps motivate at times. 

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Adding extra bonuses like a few extra bonus points to whoever finishes first or a piece of candy helps motivate at times. 

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Students will link their documents and one student does all the work and the rest take the credit. 

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Students will link their documents and one student does all the work and the rest take the credit. 

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I quit answering questions about where they are in class and what we are doing and it has forced them to use their trackers more frequently

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We have a campus-wide system for lesson classifications:
Weekly Quests (Main Quests), Side Quests, and Bonus Quests.

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How are you supposed to motivate the students to write a learning goal for each day?

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Limits what students are willing to do in a given week.

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Students sometimes skip over assignments that are should do or aspire to do because they think I will allow them to be done for the week. When that happens I have to make them go back and do those other assignments or work with other students that need help.

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Sometimes using a Quizziz or Kahoot that involves being competitive and winning candy helps get the students interested in what is going on. 

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Sometimes using a Quizziz or Kahoot that involves being competitive and winning candy helps get the students interested in what is going on. 

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Getting them to actually use it, even though its incentivized.

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The information is posted step by step for myself, the student, and the parents to see so there should be no surprises. 

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The information is posted step by step for myself, the student, and the parents to see so there should be no surprises. 

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Everything other than mastery checks are open to collaboration and projects are given at the beginning of a unit that allows groups that are ahead to work together to complete it

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I have a weekly log that is turned in that I use for tracking is helpful for parents and students that use it.

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Some collaborative lessons have worked well and they like seeing each other's input.

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Some collaborative lessons have worked well and they like seeing each other's input.

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Can we lock the gradebooks or the Schoology gradebook access (publish vs. unpublished) so students don't know what to do unless they follow the Quests?

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Some students work through the week very very very quickly, while others barely make it by the end of the week/unit. The students who work through quickly are sometime just working through the lessons without taking time to reflect and take their learning to the higher level

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many students skip past the videos and practice work, and try to tackle the mastery check without working the lesson.

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many students skip past the videos and practice work, and try to tackle the mastery check without working the lesson.

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Collaboration has given shy students more confidence.

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Students are struggling to find motivation for any of the should-do or aspire-to do assignments

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The kids being excited to come to class, being excited to see me be excited (crazy) for them.... Being graded on almost everything they do... in some way

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The kids being excited to come to class, being excited to see me be excited (crazy) for them.... Being graded on almost everything they do... in some way

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I used to view paired work as cheating or bad but now I few it like having a bunch of teachers in the room and they teach each other. I let them sit wear they want most of the time so this happens organically with who they sit with 90% of the time.

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I seat students that struggle with certain programs next to students that excel hoping they will work together.

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The variation in class size can make it less/more impactful for students.

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I have had many students hear their peers frustrated from across the room and go check on them without me prompting them. It's truly a magical time.

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Building lessons around what I know will be tested on STAAR is how lessons are classified.

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Building lessons around what I know will be tested on STAAR is how lessons are classified.

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Response: The students that really need to use this don't

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Response: The students that really need to use this don't

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How do we build this into part of the procedures of our classes so they do? How do we mitigate this with the students?

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I have had success with bonus assignments as long as they are interesting enough for the students.

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Quite a few of my students DO NOT like to work with others for any reason, regardless of the assignment.

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Quite a few of my students DO NOT like to work with others for any reason, regardless of the assignment.

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Some of my student refuse to help our their classmates.

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What do we do for students who struggle to start or do any of the work? How do you motivate them to work at their own pace?

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Grades in Schoology are not always exactly the same as grades in Skyward.

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Grades in Schoology are not always exactly the same as grades in Skyward.

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Some students refuse to work with a partner or a group.

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Some students refuse to work with a partner or a group.

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They don't get to participate in the fun stuff unless their daily work is complete.

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Attempting to figure out a way to reduce cell phone and game playing to help students lock in. 

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Attempting to figure out a way to reduce cell phone and game playing to help students lock in. 

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How do you motivate students to help their peers if they are introverted?

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This really helps communication between the student, their parents and myself. Its all out there so they can ask specific questions.

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Some students don't even look at the progress tracker because of how they view assignments in Schoology. They only look at the assignments that have a due date and are graded.

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Response: One Challenge is that middle schoolers confuse themselves and try to work out of order.

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Response: One Challenge is that middle schoolers confuse themselves and try to work out of order.

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I have set lesson blocks, but sometimes I might make them check missing work.

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I am unsure how to organize the class so that collaboration can efficiently happen..... lack of space in some cases, supervision, very wide range of targeted skill development...

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I am unsure how to organize the class so that collaboration can efficiently happen..... lack of space in some cases, supervision, very wide range of targeted skill development...

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how do we motivate the students to do the should dos or could dos when they won't even do the must do's?

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how do we motivate the students to do the should dos or could dos when they won't even do the must do's?

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I am constantly looking in HMH, Skyward, and other applications where the students assignments are to track who has done what or not done what is needed. 

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I am constantly looking in HMH, Skyward, and other applications where the students assignments are to track who has done what or not done what is needed. 

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I have built in class games over the content to help motivate them to stay on pace. They can only participate if they are on pace. If not it is a catch-up day for me.

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Very helpful for keeping students and parents all on the same page about what is due, and make-up work.

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How do you motivate your students to keep going when they are soooooooooooo far behind pace and refuse to work at home?

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I had students that were absent for 2 weeks, and  never missed an assignment.

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I had students that were absent for 2 weeks, and  never missed an assignment.

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getting some of the students to collaborate is like pulling teeth, and teeth are impacted.  They have no interest in working together.

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getting some of the students to collaborate is like pulling teeth, and teeth are impacted.  They have no interest in working together.

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As we move towards the end of the year and we gather more data, instruction and classification will start to vary more widely ......as we attempt to strengthen weak areas 

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As we move towards the end of the year and we gather more data, instruction and classification will start to vary more widely ......as we attempt to strengthen weak areas 

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I go over my Weekly Quest Tracker every day, so the kids know what "on pace" looks like. It helps the students get a better picture of what needs to be done and what's to come.

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Reflection: Grades in Schoology are not always exactly the same as grades in Skyward.

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Reflection: Grades in Schoology are not always exactly the same as grades in Skyward.

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Is there a syncing schedule you have yourself on? If not, you should "sync" every so often to prevent confusion.

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More concrete discipline plan in classroom

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Implement a goal setting and/or temperature check Google Form at the end of the week.

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Sixth Grade Second Semester RESET with all sixth grade teachers! 

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Sixth Grade Second Semester RESET with all sixth grade teachers! 

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The team can establish standards of expectations and then meet with all sixth graders at one time during an assembly to discuss their expectations moving forward.
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Create a presentation to deliver to their classes at one specific time in the day.

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I like the idea of making them email their parents about their progress because it makes them more accountable.

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Focusing on end game certification.

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Checkpoints with incentives to encourage students to work their way through the entire assignment before attempting to do the graded work

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I like the Sixth Grade Semester Reset

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Monitor and adjust assigned seating more effectively. 

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Monitor and adjust assigned seating more effectively. 

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Find the best solution for classroom materials that supports self-paced learning and responsibility.

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Find the best solution for classroom materials that supports self-paced learning and responsibility.

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child seat belts with the buckles that they can't figure out so I can strap them in and make sure they stay in their seats.

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child seat belts with the buckles that they can't figure out so I can strap them in and make sure they stay in their seats.

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For each of the buckets within Self-Paced Learning, Lesson Classification, Progress Tracking, Collaboration, and Motivation, please post:

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For each of the buckets within Self-Paced Learning, Lesson Classification, Progress Tracking, Collaboration, and Motivation, please post:

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