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I am also getting hit hard with the fact that my students and my expectations are not at the same place. It is so hard to grapple with this and feel like I am doing anything positive for them. I do not feel as though I have been set up for success, which is unfair to my students, especially because most of them have also been systematically at a disadvantage.

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There needs to be a lot of collaboration between second and first years. There is no need to reinvent the wheel if there are second years that know what works and how to make it work. Lean into each other strengths.
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Yes! I feel like there is far too much pressure on test scores. It takes the fun out of learning. Students and teachers are both thinking, ultimately, about what the test scores will look like, which, in my opinion, does not contribute to a positive learning environment. Additionally, there is too much testing during the year that takes away from instructional time.

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I really appreciate the vision that discussed sharing great ideas with one another. I think the only way for us to raise every student up is by working together.

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Keep your head up! You will realize that your students CAN rise to your expectations - it just looks differently for them than what you imagined it to look.

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Same ! To all of it... and it feels good to know that I'm not alone and that others are experiencing the same difficulties as me. It's good to know I'm not crazy. But self care is important to remember, you cannot take care of your students if you are not okay yourself. And as far as the expectations, what I had to realize is that I have to view them as goals. So even if my students don't reach my expectations for student outcomes while they're physically with me, I can take comfort in knowing that I am giving them the foundation to be able to get there at some point in their academic careers

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YES! I feel like I am constantly made to police my students' bodies, and I'm uneasy with that
... but I also need to respect the wishes of my administration. There's a constant struggle there...

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While I am not an EOC teacher, my school is incredibly focused on test scores that even I feel that my lessons and entire classroom culture needs to match the standards and expectations of my school's administration. This makes it difficult for me when I have my own visions for my classroom. At times I feel that I can't have "fun" in my classroom because it could be viewed as a "disruption" from learning the curriculum.

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I can relate to the pressure of teaching just for the sole purpose of achieving better test scores. It makes me feel like the REAL work I'd like to be doing always gets parked on the back burner.

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Forces affecting my work include feeling pressured to constantly be teaching for the sole purpose of test scores.

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SAME! I feel when I'm taking personal time, in the back of my mind I'm thinking about the work I could/need to be getting done. Also, I haven't found time to write out reflections. My concern in the class is that I am not offering enough rigor to my students to help them grow. Although, I assign a lot of work, I haven't quite aligned that work with specific outcomes.

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What forces are currently affecting our work and our team, inside and outside? What changes are we going through as a team? What different challenges are we facing as first year/second year teachers?

As a second year teacher, I am being challenged more to be a team player and to brig more to PLCs because I did not have to plan with a team as much last year.

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*Students have greatly improved writing skills
*Know grammar & sentence structure
*Students feel empowered by learning and displaying mastery of standards/skills
*Students have developed a passion & curiosity for learning through critical thinking skills

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As a first year who is so new to North Carolina, I find it difficult to find time for myself to step back, reflect, and recharge. I constantly beat myself up if I take a break from lesson planning to hang out with friends or simply take a break.
As for working inside the classroom: I have come to realize that my expectations do not fit the students I am working with-- and that hit me like a slap in the face. Every single day is a new learning experience for me. While I love the challenge, it has made my experience at my school difficult in ways I wasn't expecting.

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Sharing ideas and experiences to help each other grow as educators and empower our students

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We're empower-ers, right? Not lecturing professors or order barking prison guards.

So, our goal ought to be to help students' understand and realize their own goals.

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A goal for myself and my students is to participate in project based learning where my students lead the class and push each other to engage in the learning process as well as world topics and issues.

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Vision/goals for today:
-Meaningful, honest, engaging, useful conversations that will provide us with something to take back to our classrooms.
-Find ways to lessen the divide between the have and have-nots in my school.
-How to inspire students to want to write and to understand the importance of developing their literacy.
-My team acting as gatekeepers to resources and curriculum content, main goal being test scores

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~Analyze student data and think about what is working and what is not.
~Lean into other teachers for feedback and resources

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What were we able to accomplish as a group? How did we make this work happen?

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What were we able to accomplish as a group? How did we make this work happen?

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- achieved growth with students
- managed to create a killer curriculum with content that interests students
- we made this happen by sharing our resources, debriefing a lot, maintaining a strong, supportive online presence to share out among TFA members

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Throw out some radical ideas and running with what sticks
I see my team as my classroom of students, and I think home life is affecting them as well as me. I hope to start establishing more relationships with my students inside and outside of school.
I want to learn when to shut up in the classroom, i.e. let the kids talk about subjects that are really on their mind. Reconciling the will of the students and the will of outside forces such as the curriculum instructors has and is a challenge for me. Tomorrow's lesson planning will be the setting of my next bout with these issues and I'm less than excited.

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1. 100% of my 6th graders will have passed their EOG with a 4 or 5. 

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1. 100% of my 6th graders will have passed their EOG with a 4 or 5. 

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2. I will have built and maintained genuine relationships with all 120 of my students
3. I will have created rigorous, engaging LPs, CW, and text sets

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Be sure that your students are involved in your goal setting and that your goals are rigorous, yet achievable.

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GOALS:
-- to have my students become the leaders
--to inspire my students to ask challenging, and controversial questions
--to make the most out of my final year at KHS, leave a lasting change or impact on my students/community
2. What forces are currently affecting our work? Changes? Challenges?
--administration (pros/cons)
--behavior push back from students/other faculty
3. What did we accomplish?

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Different challenges as first/second years

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Different challenges as first/second years

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As a second year, my most unique challenge is adjusting to the fact that my new students are VERY different from my first year students, and a cookie cutter curriculum doesn't work in the same way. I am still constantly trying to be innovative and try new things like I did as a first year.

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**Most important**
Students are GROWING & retaining knowledge & academic & life skill

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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Sharing good ideas with each other to spread across ENC classrooms

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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Sharing resources and activities/ideas that have been successful

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1. What is our group's role in creating this vision?
-Keeping each other focused on what is possible, rather than what has happened.
-Fostering creativity and out-of-the-box thinking in our peers
-Avoid repeating the "status quo"

2. What forces are currently affecting our work, inside and outside?
-Collective limits placed on what is possible, how far we can go, what we are actually capable of, etc.

3. What were we able to accomplish as a group?
-Helping students see themselves as important agents of change, by using ELA texts as the starting point to building that vision

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Our Group's role in creating this vision:
- Developing meaningful relationships that would lead to consistent communication.
- Through consistent communication, share plans, ideas, resources, support, etc. that may be used to benefit each other.

Forces currently affecting our work and our team:
- Location/placement
- Personal commitments and personal experiences
- Mindset

Accomplishments as a group:
- EOG achievement
- Personal development in scholars
- Personal development as educators
- Community development
- Develop culturally in tune ELA curriculum based on J. Cole lyrics.

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What is our group's role in creating this vision? 

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What is our group's role in creating this vision? 

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Collaborating with our peers
Reflecting and growing together as educators AND learners.

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- sharing ideas for activities in class and feedback
- making short term goals and holding each other accountable
- emotional support

As a first year, the workload of being a teacher, particularly outside instructional time, seems overwhelming (LP, meetings, grading, etc.) I literally go to sleep and wake up every day exhausted.

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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What is our group's role in creating this vision?

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Being truthful and honest with one another. Remaining coachable and supportive while keeping our goals and missions in mind.

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1. helping each other out, sharing ideas and activities, being there for support.
2. DACA, Trump, not being close in distance to our ELA squad, learning to create unit plans and balance multiple classes, trying to understand students that you don't know well and who are in situations that you may have never been in.
3. I know all of the ELA teachers names, passionate students, engaged students. We can accomplish this by relying on each other