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Students appreciate paper copies texts, especially novels

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Students mentioned writing as a way to prepare for college and get IN to college.

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More vocabulary, more diversity, more essay writing,

Need to review the quizzes and relevance of the answers

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Students found the assessments in StudySync a bit clunky. The questions were not always clear and the tests sometimes felt like "bad tests".

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Eager to see more diversity and more original source materials.

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adding diversity to reading; allowing students to read literature that reflects them

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adding diversity to reading; allowing students to read literature that reflects them

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diverse voices

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More is more...incorporate student choice and diverse perspectives whenever possible; focus on general and academic vocabulary

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More formal writing and more explicit training on vocabulary and conventions of writing.

Really important what Ha Lien said about teaching about the history of books we are reading. More perspectives.

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Students want to read and analyze speeches and want to see more diversity represented in texts.

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Diversity of authors (including Asian American, etc.)

Choice in text selection

More essay writing (explicit teaching)

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are difficult and feel inauthentic. Maybe putting a few of the quizzes in Google Forms with the option for a redo at the beginning of the year could scaffold them up.

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Students value choice when it comes to books or long-term reading projects.

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I like what the one student said about learning grammar.  If we want them to write quality essays, we need to teach grammar.

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I like what the one student said about learning grammar.  If we want them to write quality essays, we need to teach grammar.

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ELA - Offer student voices in selecting the books 

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ELA - Offer student voices in selecting the books 

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Need more writing, grammar, and vocab instruction.

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Student choice is important!

StudySync is not "self-driving"

It sounds like students need more volume of writing

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- Students would like more emphasis on explicit grammar and vocabulary instruction throughout their ELA career.
- Students would like to see a larger variety of perspectives presented in the text their read (particularly API).

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Prefer engaging activities such as seminars and debates.

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Several middle school students said they really enjoy doing seminars and discussions

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A mixture of taking notes, watching videos, discussions, and more interactive activities.

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A mixture of taking notes, watching videos, discussions, and more interactive activities.

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Have videos but songs explaining history are interesting and stay for a long time

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Have videos but songs explaining history are interesting and stay for a long time

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Learn about women and native American history more

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Foundational Knowledge was helpful to begin their social studies education in 6th grade.

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Provide differing perspectives

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All students commented they enjoyed CNN10. They asked for discussion after.
Seminars, Projects, they asked for more hands on. They enjoy videos (not too long), songs.
Native American studies

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How will we hear from different, more diverse student voices? 

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How will we hear from different, more diverse student voices? 

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Interesting how none of the students discussed inquiry skills or thinking skills when discussing what social studies is

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Students in our group struggled to share examples of themselves feeling "seen" and engaged in their social studies classes. Seems like we have a lot of work ahead of us!

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Let's not just learn about the same people, over and over!

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Expand knowledge about different people and cultures

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Expand knowledge about different people and cultures

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They want debate and class discussion

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Keep Variety in teaching methods
Add as many perspectives as possible

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Students want to hear more diverse perspectives - for 8th grade women's history and Native American history were mentioned specifically

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Cover Current events, more in discussion formats. Make sure to return to history based curriculum. We have made progress in utilizing diverse backgrounds, but there is still more work to do there.

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Make sure to include multiple voices & perspectives of events - especially in USH