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Writing is a focus at every grade level.

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Writing is a focus at every grade level.

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Different technology programs to use in the classroom.

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Technology can be as simple as using Plickers or more in-depth using Google Forms.

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Same ideas and goals. Learned I need to use Google classroom and seesaw

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technology helps
was great to meet with other campus teachers

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Great meeting with different grade levels and being able to discuss with them!

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Great meeting with different grade levels and being able to discuss with them!

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Clocking is something that I will be using in my class. I also will be breaking
down the TEKS

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Technology ideas to keep adding! Pear Deck

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Pear deck

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I was surprised to find that we are on the same page as far as big ideas for reading and writing .

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Teachers in ELAR have fairly aligned expectations for their students.

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Breaking down the TEKS and using formative assessments

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Reading A-Z can help with your running records... Say whaaaaaat?!

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Aligning our teaching vocabulary helped us clarify any misunderstandings with students as they build on prior knowledge from the previous grade.

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We have learned what improvements we can make in our writing process to support the upper grades.

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Breaking down TEKS and using formative assessment to evaluate students is easier than we thought. Trying to integrate technology can help achieve student success.

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We learned that we all seem to have the same ideas and goals throughout junior high and high school.

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We learned that we all want to integrate more technology effectively into our lessons. We also examined the crossover of standards between 9th Bio, AP Bio, Anatomy & Physiology, and Forensics.

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It was GREAT to finally meet with other science levels.  Lots of awesome collaboration about what students need entering the grade and leaving the grade.  Many good ideas about integrating technology and writing. Everyone's favorite vertical alignment meeting so far!

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Parker: learning more ways to utilize google classroom

Hebert: DOK VS Blooms (didn’t realize they were different)

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We discussed how important teaching content vocabulary is throughout all subject areas

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We discussed how to incorporate higher DOK levels in students projects.

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Bringing technology and formative assessment ideas into the classroom more frequently.

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We talked about using Chatterpix as a technology in our classroom by having students take pictures of  2D and 3D shapes, then having them describe the attributes of that shape.

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I learned about different ways to incorporate technology into my lessons. Looking at the DOK break down was an eye opener for me as well.

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Incorporating technology into daily assignments.

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The biggest way to get tech to all students would be having students begin online portfolios at the elementary level. Tying this to a graduation credit would help students stay focused on such and give them a valuable resource for the future.

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Learned apps and websites to use it classroom.

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Elar

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ELAR 5th-7th Learned about the reading checkin, I will definitely utilize and plug into Google classroom for a weekly check in.

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ELAR training 5-7 was amazing. Lots of great ideas to integrate technology to use immediately.

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Working with other Singleton’s to discuss cross-curriculum issues and initiatives.

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ELAR @ JH

The ELAR teachers have the same wants for their students. It is encouraging to know we are all driven for the same success of our students.

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Taking math to a depth that helps our students understand more than what may be required.  DOK

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It’s been an informative morning; I always love hearing what’s going on that’s new. I especially love learning new technology!

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Shake up Learning is a great way to motivate student engagement!

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Using technology for formative assessments

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We learned a little bit more about DOK and how we can make the depth of our lessons deeper.

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Looking at vertical alignment, we realized that we are on the same page as far as the standards we want kids to come in knowing and learning. We talked about ways to integrate technology more often, and increasing student expectation for quality of work.

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I already use google classroom, but I learned some new ways to integrate fun and challenging things for my lessons.

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Reading: When looking at essential standards, 5th, 6th, and 7th Grades are similar in the gaps needed to be filled for each grade level. Also, we talked about using the break down of standards for students to make the connection of what they are supposed to be learning.

Writing: We looked at how we can make our writing into higher levels of DOK.

In all, we talked about how time and resources affect these outcomes.

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This was a delightful day for communicating with our peers in the Social Studies community.

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I learned more about DOK through the chart that was shared with us. The verbs that are listed make great clues about the level of knowledge involved with the lesson.

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Taking a level 1 DOK activity to level 2 or 3 is relatively simple. We were able to brainstorm some really general ideas that will work across the History curriculum.

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We threw around several concerns and ideas on how to get students to show initiative in their work and in their future.

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We discussed how to improve student use of technology throughout their time in school.

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We discussed formative assessments, websites that we have found beneficial, and gaps in learning.

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We discussed many different FA's and how to breakdown TEKS for our new teachers.

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Enjoyed learning how to do castles from the hush school history.

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I learned about new ways to use technology to allow a higher level of depth of knowledge

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I earned the importance of reading comprehension and the need to practice writing/essay skills.

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We talked about different formative assessment strategies.

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New way to integrate technology for formative assessments.

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We talked about starting websites in K for students that they create and build on each year and they have until they graduate!  We are so excited to talk about this further and see what this could mean for our students and their technology & professional skills.

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We learned different ways to incorporate technology in our classes for formative assessments.

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We discussed implementing formative assessments using technology apps. Writing across the curriculum and consistent writing samples are imperative to monitor student growth.

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Technology:
Khoot has word building :)

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We discussed DOK levels and how we can use them to evaluate our lessons and activities.
-B. Grayson

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Review game called “castles.” Students “are at war” competing by answering questions in teams

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We discussed how important it is to "bump up" the level of work and expectations so that all students are challenged and will grow.

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Lot's of NEW Exit ticket ideas! Enjoyed the Charts we made to help explain our "most" important TEKS.

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Using work samples and matching them to DOK levels is eye opening. It really has me thinking of ways to bump up our rigor to bring students to the next level.

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Today I learned many new resources for technology use in the classroom.

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Today I brought to the table the idea of collaboration once a month for all PE teachers to come together during school. This idea was well received and deemed vital to vertical alignment

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Today I learned a new way to easily integrate technology while finding real world examples throughout the school.

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We discussed some great ways to “up” the rigor of student work samples we brought

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Today I learned multiple ways to integrate technology in the classroom.

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Today we discussed what we need to do in order to be aligned vertically. We discussed common wants and needs as well as ideas to achieve them. We also discussed how to "up" the rigor of class work to achieve growth for all students.

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We had great conversations about our roles here at BHS. We talked about the importance of relationship building, communication and respect. Our favorite quote of the day was "Discipline is an element of love" Thanks Coach McGill

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We learned that our expectations from grade to grade are very similar and our goals are the same

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"Love is a long-term betterment of a person." - Logan McGill

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"Love is a long-term betterment of a person." - Logan McGill

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This morning I learned to break down a PE tek.

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Discussed how to interpret new ELAR TEKS/Strands.

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I learned that there is new tech in the form of a whistle for example that can be used in PE.

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Working in groups has led to one student working more than others. I asked the group what they do to prevent this. A rubric was suggested to give each student in a group a specific responsibility and grade them accordingly. Great idea that will help students work as a team, yet be held individually accountable. - Chad Wilson

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I learned the new tech
in the form of a whistle that is out for pe teachers

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We shared ways that we use technology within our classroom. We also determined that the DOK within our classrooms were very similar.

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Google Classroom would be an effective assessment for students in math, because a teacher has used it before and it was successful for him.

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We liked the Google Forms idea for quick assessments and the Vittle app for creating videos.

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Today I learned that multiplication is a problem across the board. DOK is just as important as Bloom's when teaching certain skills.

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More ways to integrate writing in the math curriculum.

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We learned the importance of rational numbers throughout all grade levels.  We enjoyed the group discussion!

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We became aware of how much more our students need to know for 1st grade. ex 25 high frequency words in Kinder to 100 in 1st grade.

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Today I learned that Algebra is based on logical thinking and that I am actually teaching not only Algebra, but teaching students to work through life in logical steps.

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This morning I learned we are similar in our expectations for our students for all grade levels in PE.

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We really enjoyed being able to implement the same teaching of the TEKS throughout all campuses. Now our students will be learning the same information at the same time instead if being at a disadvantage later on in their band career.

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The importance of writing in history classes

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The importance of Writing Across the Curriculum with four advanced classes and integrating TEKS breakdowns throughout my lessons.

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Stressing certain TEKS for student success in Art 2 and above.

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In developing the first two tasks, I managed to support the importance of vocabulary development. In order for any student to succeed in learning a second language, vocabulary must play a very important part of the learning. Vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary my dear Watson; it is Elementary

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Integrating more technology formative assessments for lessons.

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Today I learned to always keep DOK in mind when planning activities for students in class. There are always little ways I can "kick it up a notch" if I go outside of my comfort zone a little and give the kids the benefit of the doubt.

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I really enjoyed narrowing down to three esst. standards for my students to leave with. It took away the stress of having too many TEKS & we were able to focus on finding three TEKS to really hit by the end of May.

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Today I learned how to integrate writing prompts and activities into my TEKS.

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Today I learnedthe  importance of having goals of entering a leaving the classrooms or students and what I expect them to master

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Student awareness of being organized and aware of surroundings

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Today I learned how to integrate technology into my lessons more often.

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Today, I learned that having my class create a warm up and cool down, then applying it to each student is a DOK Level 2. I will continue to use this to see the student creativity and self expression, while the class is student led.