Determining a Meaningful Inquiry Focus by

Record your theme in the subject

ajvolgi — 2024-10-23 20:29:45 UTC

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Student Belonging and Support

2024-10-24 13:45:25 UTC

Increasing a student's sense of belonging would have have a positive impact on achievement. A student's comfort level, with peers, the teacher, and the curriculum play a role in their success. We also need to explore what success means for that student. What support systems/structures can be created in the classroom to address metacognitive skills without sacrificing rigor and course specific content and skills.

Group 2: Barriers to Student Learning

jkrause1 — 2024-10-24 13:46:24 UTC

If we choose to focus on identifying and learning more about barriers, we could grow our knowledge and then lessen the negative impact of barriers on student learning. It will help give us a better understanding of the impact of the problem. What do people perceive to be the problem? Given this, how would it be best to work to remove them? What actionable steps would be best to take? It could also increase communication between teachers, students, parents, admin. It might also help us to get a better understanding of what student success looks like: is it GPA? is it consistent attendance? And what about student voice about what they feel "success" looks like? Learning about barriers should be an early step in our group's process -- we cannot move forward until we overcome these barriers. Do our systems and structures allow us enough flexibility to support multiple versions of student success?

Group 2: Barriers to Student Success

jkrause1 — 2024-10-24 13:50:19 UTC

We need increased communication, but it needs a clear focus or vision for what we are doing as a school. Perhaps we could move toward individualized plans for each student. Perhaps rethinking the scheduling/course selection process to make it more individualized, more personal. more reflective of what's actually happening to each particular student.

Group 4 and student belonging

2024-10-24 13:52:46 UTC

The resources are there and it revolves around mindsets and perspectives of what it means for students to feel like they belong. The expertise is in our building but we need a shared vision to move forward with this.

Group 2: Barriers to Student Success

jkrause1 — 2024-10-24 13:52:54 UTC

We believe addressing current barriers would address all areas of district and school goals. Perhaps it might require us to make choices that are better for kids rather than more convenient for us as professionals.

Student Belonging and Support

2024-10-24 13:53:40 UTC

exploration of this trend would align with achievement across classroom spaces. A Sense of belonging in a class can create increased belonging in social aspects across the school.

Group 5 Teacher Flexibility and Professional Learning

2024-10-24 15:00:21 UTC

Students who are struggling in a course with a flexible teacher should increase academically. We discussed the struggles of flexibility within academic rigor, teaching to the test versus skills and how it starts at the PLT level trying to have 1 common definition of what Flexibility means without compromising rigor.