Having EOMs ready before beginning modules would help with backwards planning.

Reviewing HMH Instructional Routines and where to apply them would be helpful at the beginning of the year.

Guidance on grading consistency across the district.

Shorten the Data/ Analysis template to allow more time to focus on planning and practice.

Connecting writing lessons would also be great! Our students did not do well on the written responses and specific reteaching on that would be wonderful!

Would it be possible/how could we incorporate accountability in making sure that the teachers are following through with the protocol and doing the re-teaching so we can see how students are progressing in the missed standards?

This might also just be me but I REALLY appreciated that this meeting was virtual/online because with a baby in daycare and a husband who works in the hospital on different rotations, schedules after school can get tricky. It's nice to get in person and talk, but having this so we could still gather information was very helpful and I would love to be able to have that chance next year if at all possible.

EOMs that focus on fewer skills / standards. I sometimes feel like I am trying to cover too many standards in each three week module that I am going over them so quickly we don't have the chance to deep-dive. I know HMH does spiral review but every time skills come up again we have to go over it just as quick as the first time.

Flex days built into modules instead of clumped together at the end of the year.

Broader training for those of us that are departmentalized. I want to know how to better use my colleagues time during WDPM.

Also, the focus on reteaching...I see the intention, but it got lost as the EOM just kept moving forward and the standards and questions didn't circle back until months later. The intention got lost in the process. We do reteach, but it lost effectiveness and useable data as the EOM just kept moving on.

Can we have questions better aligned with the actual HMH monthly lessons? Maybe HMH has a mod already set up we can pull from?

We were fine using mastery connect, it made it easy to see the scores. No issue there.

To be honest, I really don't need all the paper work to see where my students need extra help. As I'm grading the test, I can see which questions they struggled with and which ones they had success. All this extra paper work is just too time consuming and I'm not getting paid to work at home.

Is there a way for teachers to access the student-facing assessments on Mastery Connect? Not having access made it challenging to fully support students and ensure they were comfortable with the program and its features.

I believe we should put a larger focus on reteaching and understanding how to choose what you reteach and when. I also think we should bring back "Backward planning" sessions in our Data meetings. I also think we need to discuss further what the vertical alignment looks like in these meetings so that we can see the connections clearer as we are instructing students.

I agree with the backward planning comments. Why be reactive instead of proactive? We can still reteach after each module assessment, but weekly focus on the backward planning.

Objective: Model how to identify a sentence that shows a change in the story's setting (time and/or place).

Teacher: Some of you were unsure about this question. "What sentence from the article tells that the setting changes?"

Let me show you exactly how I would think through this.

First, I stop and ask myself: "What does setting mean?" Setting is the time and place where the story happens.

Now I think if the question says the setting changes, I need to look for a part of the story where the time or place is different than it was before.

Let's look at this short part of the article together:

"In the morning, Marcus was sitting at his kitchen table, eating cereal and reading a comic book. After school he and his friend walked to the park to play soccer."

I'm going to underline clues that help me figure out the setting:

• "In the morning"- that tells me the time.

• "At his kitchen table" - that tells me the place.

• Then later it says, "After school" - That's a new time.

• "Walked to the park" - That's a new place.

• So I see both time and place changed. That means the setting changed.

Now I'll answer the question: "What sentences shows the setting changes?"

My answer would be:

"After school, he and his friend walked to the park to play soccer."

That sentence show bother a new time (After school) and a new place (the park).

That's how I know the setting changed."

• to meet virtually, and perhaps in person on the last workshop. It can be a press to get to the workshop at the designated time when many teachers have afternoon duties / responsibilities and working with a shortage of staff. I, personally, would feel less rushed for the meeting and more prepared.

• to use the HMH tools and resources to gather data that already provides or does the same thing as Mastery Connect. It already contains the weekly and end-of-module assessments.

• to have a simpler form for providing data.

• to have some snacks at the meeting. It is a LONNNNNG day! :-)

• Say, "Thank you" to all of you! :-)