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         <title>Word Terminology</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Alignment to me means the wording of definitions and ideas are described in similar or same ways across levels/teachers.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:33:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Above/Below Kohl-Lab-Urashun</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:33:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>work ethic/study skills</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:34:12 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Being on the same page with policies and preparedness.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Rooms 1416 and 1417</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:34:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Being on track to grow and retain content for math classes before and after.</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ensuring students are set up for success for the next course. Knowing what areas were emphasised or timing issue that needs to be addressed in the next class. </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Emphasizing work over just the correct final answer in point allocations for grading</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:34:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Similar words/meaning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Consistency seems to be same definitions across teachers</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:35:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Proper notation, reporting of answers, vocabulary ( transformations),...</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:36:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>More Examples of Upper level content</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes what a student needs in the future isn't easily visible or has few examples for a teacher to show students.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:36:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I feel like the math department does well in factoring - growth and retaining.</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:36:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Number of test retakes.</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:36:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>It means being consistent between classes &amp; knowing what is expected in future math classes so that students are as prepared as they can be. </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The same processes and teaching methods across the different math courses.</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:37:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>factoring ( difference of cubes)</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:37:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Understanding Algebraic Skills</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Gaps in how a student approaches a problem algebraically, and whether they know why they are moving things or different ways available to them.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:37:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>reporting in function notation</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:37:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Following the policies agreed upon.</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:37:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Course grading and calculator use</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:38:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Systems of Equations and Factoring</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:38:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Having similar process to teach different topics. Like when math department decided to all teach facoring the same. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:38:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Expectations of Rigor increasing</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Making sure students understand what they are doing now will influence their future and try to emphasize student rigor.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:38:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Solving equations - students in precal still have trouble solving a one step equation.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:39:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>proper algebraic solving maneuvers, square-rooting too soon, crazy canceling</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:39:34 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I feel like calculator use is loose across the department. It's also not easy to access what they do in different math classes. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:39:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Student ownership of work, INTEGRITY  - stop the cheating.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:39:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>order of operations</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:39:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Not being able to do simple arithmetic (adding fractions, multiplying fractions, etc). Also exponent rules/properties. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:40:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Share notes or calendars of course outline</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:42:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Be open and willing to change things. Like thinking about different ways to teach things. And focusing on work over just the correct answer. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:43:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>math skills - academic maturity from 8th to 9th</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:45:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Attention to detail-showing work-expectations</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:49:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Adding/Subtracting and Multiplying/Dividing fractions</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:57:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Calculators</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>When is it valuable/ when is it a tool/ not a crutch.</p><p><br></p><p>Balance use</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 19:58:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Create a Math &quot;Dashboard&quot;</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Documents guidelines within the math department and expectations per level, including calculators, showing work, teaching methodology, late work, calendars, category weights, homework ideas (trade and grade, formatting, what good work looks like, points off--how does that look on tests, HW etc., units in answers, team norm (example claculators, late work, etc, average workload for each course, magic wand- vocabulary sync between courses</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:09:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>desmos/handheld use</title>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:25:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Skills progression / skills building up from the previous year</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:40:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>What it means</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>PLCs across grade levels work together toward the common goal</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:41:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alignment </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>It means working toward a common goal that is built upon each year with an understanding of level-specific skills and expectations in the levels preceding and following our own. </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I think vertical alignment means that we are consistent in our practices in the classroom so that our students are set up for success when they move on to the next grade and aren't thrown off by significant differences in terminology or method</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:41:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>In Place</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Knowledge of skills being taught and expected at the next level </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Consistency</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I would love to know what acronyms are used for specifics skills across the grades i.e TPCASTT for poetry, RACE for paragraphs ( though recently I heard that AP does not want us using this!); and SOAPstone/Spacecat for Rhetoric?</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Vertical Alignment is ensuring that knowledge and skills are built upon each year. It is similar to scaffolding within a lesson, but on a larger scale.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Rhetoric and basic grammar</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>If we are vertically aligned, we can have a baseline of expectations of knowledge and skills for students coming up to us. We might spend less time teaching what students already know. We would also be expected to teach and assess certain skills before our kids leave us to prepare for the next grade level. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Sentence structure, Grammar, Essay organization, reading comprehension</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Consistency</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Sticking to standards laid out by PLCs. Everyone agreeing to specific expectations and holding each other and out students accountable </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Analytical commentary</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>We are aligned in our late guidelines and in our re-do / corrections guidelines. </p><p>We have our TEKS and we have EUS; those documents should help with vertical alignment of skills. </p>]]></description>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791702296</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Adequately explaining their quotes and their thought process in short answers/essays. Also, putting in genuine effort and not fishing for the "right answer" - English is far more about how you explain and develop your answer so I think this should be emphasized to students . </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Consistency</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Having the same expectations or expectatins that build on previous ones. Essentially, making sure we are not teaching something that needs to be unlearned at the next level. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>loose or tight</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I feel like how we approach silent reading/reading in class differently, and phone policies are different all over.</p><p><br/></p><p>I think rhetoric and basic grammar/mla expectations are tight</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Consistency could be language of the craft used, adhering to departmental agreements, scoring rubrics could be more consistent, etc. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Good consistency with late work, use of direct embedded quotes, citations, literary devices (students still need practice but definitely consistently addressed)</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I feel that we have worked toward consistency in grammar lessons, analysis v. summary, conventions, critical thinking skills, standard formatting...probably others. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:45:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I feel like we are consistent in late guidelines and re-do guidelines. I do not feel that we are consistent in scoring (calibration could be more of a norm). </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:45:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Vertical Consistency</title>
         <author>tylerlewis12</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>I am glad that there is a distinction between alignment and consistency! The difference is the way in which skills are taught. In order to maintain vertical consistency, we would need the curriculum to be vertically aligned and the way it is taught to be consistent. This could include terminology and methods.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Last year, E1 had a great meeting with E2 where we looked at common rubrics. E1 was able to use the E2 analysis rubric and adapt it for 9th grade, so students get used to seeing the same language.</p>]]></description>
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         <title></title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791703943</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Depth of thinking, responding beyond the surface, effort, </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Skill Gaps</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Reading endurance and understanding of literary devices. Being able to not only define the devices but also identifying them within the text</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Skill Gaps</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791704167</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Students are coming into HS with a lack of knowledge in the area of analysis. There are also noticable conventional gaps (grammar, spelling, etc.). </p>]]></description>
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         <title>ELA Consistency</title>
         <author>tylerlewis12</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791704515</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I think that we are consistent in late work guidelines and retake/redo policies. I think there is work that needs to be done in terms of analysis and overall rubric grading. </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Reading / SSR could be an easy "critical expectation" to meet. SSR with some level of accoutability (not a grade)...they need to discuss and write about what they are reading, etc. </p>]]></description>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791704654</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Possible gaps in assessments / types of grades. Analysis. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 20:47:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/christa_thompson_martin/b4nhev8bla7q16d2/wish/3791704923</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>how much grammar/conventions factors into grading on writing assignments seems loose to me </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Critical Expectations</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Academic integrity, formatting for SAR/ECR/MLA, Grading expectations, level-dependent rigor, </p>]]></description>
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         <title></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Writing analysis </p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Analysis!!!! We have to start with identification because they can't even begin to discuss the "how" or "why" because they don't understand what they are reading.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Reading &amp; Writing</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Kids are not necessarily coming in with skills of selecting their own readings and building the practice of reading independently. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>What are the exemplar essays and rubric for each level/ assessing a certain skill.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Consistency of language is different.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Compare data more with MAPS, DA-</p><p>One thing that would improve students' ELA skills- Reading (SSR)</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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