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Students work harder and are reading the text more carefully.  They take my writing assignments more seriously and complain less!  Before it was very hard to get three well written paragraphs out of some of them, now they just do it.  The use of complete sentences and descriptive words is much better.

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Students work harder and are reading the text more carefully.  They take my writing assignments more seriously and complain less!  Before it was very hard to get three well written paragraphs out of some of them, now they just do it.  The use of complete sentences and descriptive words is much better.

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Students are getting used to marking up text, looking for key words, and writing more informed answers.

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Students are getting used to marking up text, looking for key words, and writing more informed answers.

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Grammar and sentence structure could be better.

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I have seen more student writing in general - around the building.  Also hearing students talk about (and sometimes complain) all the writing they are being asked to do is a good thing - and I remind them of that.  Critical skills.  Nice to see this momentum happening.  Still struggling with some who don't want to write, but it is a good process and challenge.

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I have seen more student writing in general - around the building.  Also hearing students talk about (and sometimes complain) all the writing they are being asked to do is a good thing - and I remind them of that.  Critical skills.  Nice to see this momentum happening.  Still struggling with some who don't want to write, but it is a good process and challenge.

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Practice has been effective for many student. The students who   are truent and those who struggle with understanding concepts tend to not complete the writing assignments or earn low scores.

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Improving on writing answers to support a scientific concept. The weakness that I see is that students are contradicting themselves.  

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Improving on writing answers to support a scientific concept. The weakness that I see is that students are contradicting themselves.  

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The majority of students took the writings seriously when told that we would be analyzing them with other teachers. It may be helpful to have teachers of similar courses get together and discuss where might be the best places to implement Collin's Writings in to the curriculum more often and more naturally.

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Students are taking this  seriously.  Additionally, they are using transitition words and thesis statements have improved. 

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Students are taking this  seriously.  Additionally, they are using transitition words and thesis statements have improved. 

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Students are familiar with the key FCAs and writing is improving. 

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Students are familiar with the key FCAs and writing is improving. 

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Students seem to respond well to the format for writing constructed responses.  It gives them guidance to approach the problem and gives them an amount to shoot for.

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Students seem to respond well to the format for writing constructed responses.  It gives them guidance to approach the problem and gives them an amount to shoot for.

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Students understand what FCS's are and are creating great topic sentences. In addition, they are including evidence supporting the topic sentences. 

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Students understand what FCS's are and are creating great topic sentences. In addition, they are including evidence supporting the topic sentences. 

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For the most part, students are getting used to writing in all subject areas across the board. Students seem to do better when they use a graphic organizer.

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Students are more familiar with the Collins writing and the rubric. Many students still need basic writing FCAs such as to indent paragraphs and to use proper grammar and mechanics

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Students are more familiar with the Collins writing and the rubric. Many students still need basic writing FCAs such as to indent paragraphs and to use proper grammar and mechanics

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It is helpful that students are getting the same information about writing in all of their courses. It really helps to drive the ideas home. I have seen an improvement in my students' writing since the beginning of the school year.

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Repeating the same key FCA's is helping students to remember the most important expectations.

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Repeating the same key FCA's is helping students to remember the most important expectations.

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The music department observed that students take writing assignments more seriously when they hand write on lined paper than when they input responses into Blend. The later tend to be more "text"-like answers.

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Kids are getting used to finding quotes and understanding they have to explain meaning as it fits the question. 

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Kids are getting used to finding quotes and understanding they have to explain meaning as it fits the question. 

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Some students still aren't doing what is asked of them in the question. They just write to get it over with at times.

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Our department is observing better results when we attach the rubric on our assignments, and less effort from the students on the shorter types writings.

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Our department is observing better results when we attach the rubric on our assignments, and less effort from the students on the shorter types writings.

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Students are producing fantastic constructed responses in English 10--especially after completing the strict outline we have created (topic sentence formula, supporting statements/evidence/commentary, and concluding sentence).

Areas of need: Students are good at finding and citing evidence from the text, but there's room for growth in the commentary/explanation portion after the evidence is cited.

-Kate

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Positive:  Greater effort from the students
Something to improve: Be sure to check and see if they answered the prompt.

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The main positive that I see is that there is much less resistance if any when asking the students to write. Whether they are doing it just to get it done or accepting that it is important, the bottom line is that they are writing! We just need them to improve on effort. In the writings I graded I can see an understanding of what we are asking, just a lack of effort.

Denny

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when effort is there, improvement is shown.  still working on quality content

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when effort is there, improvement is shown.  still working on quality content

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Students seem more comfortable trying to write.  Some basic writing has improved.  Students continue to have difficultly conveying what they mean in words.

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Students seem more comfortable trying to write.  Some basic writing has improved.  Students continue to have difficultly conveying what they mean in words.

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I see great improvement.  It seems some of our students are beginning to like to write. 

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I see great improvement.  It seems some of our students are beginning to like to write. 

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So far I am seeing much better writing and much better scores for this class than last time. The introductions and conclusions are great and they are giving more examples. I am pleased

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So far I am seeing much better writing and much better scores for this class than last time. The introductions and conclusions are great and they are giving more examples. I am pleased

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Students did not complain as much this time around. I think they are getting used to writing more often.

We can keep improving on transitions and grammar as well as blending textual evidence with their own supporting details. -Steph

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I saw improvement from the last writing sample. Almost every student moved up at least 1 point.
However, students still need more work on form (transitions and paragraphs).

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Continue to work on reinforcing transitional use and quote inclusion as textual evidence-Megan

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Positive: Students are becoming familiar with Collins Writing and are aware of the different types.
Improvements: More practice is always needed for both students and teachers.