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      <title>TX NSI: NOW WHAT? What actions do we need to take in order to make progress towards our goals? And what supports do we need?  by Denise Thornton</title>
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      <description>Work in campus groups to respond to the following questions.  Record your responses in the appropriate DISTRICT column.  

What is one short term goal that can be addressed immediately by early summer?  

What longer term goal can you address as the next school year begins? </description>
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      <pubDate>2020-05-12 20:38:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Kennemer Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names:  Lori Schuster, Banitrice Sowels, Mykela Managram, Darian Favors, Ashley Proctor<br><br>Short Term:  Becoming more versed in technology applications  that will support teacher instructional strategies and implementation of differentiation<br><br>Long Term: Implementation of Digital technology on a consistent basis. Becoming content creators, transition to a paperless classroom</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 20:45:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title> Crowley Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568644159</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: <br>Alexis Benson<br>Kaye Smith<br>Nick Keith<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here.<br><br>Short Term: Assess students at the end of the year to understand gaps, etc.<br><br>Long Term: Planning how to differentiate for next school year to meet the students where they are at? What is the process for this?</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 20:47:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Byrd Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568644553</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: JeLisa Love Valerae Washington<br><br><strong>JeLisa Love --&gt;</strong> A <mark>short term goal </mark>of mine is to work on self development and self reflection. I need to figure out what worked and what did not work for my students/classroom.<br>A <mark>long term goal</mark> of mine is to become a creator of the math content. I want to be able  to create engaging lessons/activities and valuable assessments.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 20:47:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>HF Stevens Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568662581</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: <br>Kim Buckhalton<br>Orlando Speaks<br>Billy Hanz<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here.<br>Short Term Goal: Identify/find diagnostic to identify where students are currently.<br><br>Long Term Goal: Work with students so they can become familiar and comfortable with online learning - Google classroom and Zoom meetings (or Google hangouts) - fully prepare them in the event we go into another closure so we do not have the same shortcomings on online education like we did going into it.<br>Classroom discussion and student conversations - build up teacher and student capacity in having meaningful discourse in the classroom.  - doing so by creating a possible campus wide protocol/expectations.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 20:58:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Forest Meadow Junior High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568668820</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: Claire Skupien, Paige Houghtaling, Rachel Wolfe, Allena Ferguson, Brooke Lopez, Joe Parisi, Susan Burt, Sue Sweeney, Darwin Spiller, Doug Planey <br><br>SHORT TERM: Identify which elementary school's students enrolled for PAP classes. (incoming 7th graders) <br>Targeting 4th &amp; 5th grade Masters students for 6th grade enrollment.<br>LONG TERM: Create a 7th grade camp at the beginning of the school year to perform diagnostic assessments &amp; identify students for PAP math. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:02:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Richardson West Jr High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568669342</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: Karen Landman, Briana Ellis, Dylan Johnson, Chris Castaneda, Amanda Chapman, Carissa Schwarzlose, Kimberly Kindred<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here.<br>Short term: We will identify where our students are in math and identify what gaps our students have (BOY) using a diagnostic assessment with IXL and a MAP screener. (Comparative data in LIGHT)<br>Long term: Identify and construct a long term plan of classroom structure so that students can begin to build self efficacy when they are not with us and the learning can continue (thinking of us on a Hybrid model)<br>Also, incorporating teacher/student discussion about student data so that our students can know where they are and begin to own their own learning whether they are at home or school.  </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:03:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lake Highlands Jr High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568670083</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names:  Julie Horn, Sydney Westbay, Nichole Stearns, Jocelyn Shapiro, Allison Schrank, Abbey Davis, Carrie Breedlove, Laura Parker<br><br>Short Term: determine gaps for next year (financial literacy, equations), be strategic with our questioning/scaffolding<br>Long Term: assess frequently, identify what concepts we can build on</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:03:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Richardson North Jr High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568670778</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: Debby Miller, Jonathan Rosen, Ashley Nick, Ann Bailey, Angie Brown, Brittany Ryan, Josh Eason, Micah Armstrong, Rhonda Bristow, Michelle Arce, Peggy Dillon<br><br>SHORT TERM:<br>1. Make summer learning opportunities more easily available to parents.<br>2. Identify skills scholars need to be better at for at-home learning.<br>3. Get data from 6th grade students.<br><br>LONG TERM:<br>1. Find good curriculum for our 7th to 8th grade students to fill gaps.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:04:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Parkhill Jr High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568671521</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names: <br>Farrah Smock<br>Myka Agnew<br>Katherin Gorenc<br>Elizabeth Kaner<br>Darren Smith<br>Frank Calderon<br>Beth Wimberly<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here.<br><br>Short term: Begin looking through YAG calendars and determine areas where we can have some flexibility in terms of time.  Also begin looking at what TEKS were not able to be covered this year that may need to be retaught next year in order to anticipate gaps.<br><br>Long term: Use MAP Testing at the beginning of the year to assess student strengths and areas of growth to determine possible areas for needed intervention or enrichment.<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:04:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Westwood Jr High</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568673790</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names:   Carolan Knight, Paxton Parker, Maryan McLachlan, Jonathan Womble, Tricia Abouabdo, Jennifer Schroeder, Kurt Johnson, Debbie McFarlin, Jennie Bates, Erin Perkins<br><br>Short Term <br>- Explore ways to differentiate based<br>- Look at the TEKS and Curriculum to anticipate gaps<br>- "Bridging" students from one grade-level to another<br>- Solutions to the "brain drain"<br>- Finding time for remediation<br><br>Long Term<br>- Identify gaps early, before moving too far into the curriculum, to address them at the beginning of the year<br>- Look into other testing besides MAP to get data at the beginning of the year - IXL, Edgenuity<br>- Chunking assessments based on vertically aligned TEKS and reporting categories and use as a pre assessment<br>- Using assessment data to drive instruction, choice boards<br>- Involving students in their own data<br>- Determine what students need extension and remediation<br>- Utilize All-In-Learning for on-the-spot data<br>- Revisiting what the classroom structure, timing and layout should be to accommodate differentiated learning opportunities</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:06:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Reed Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/568674893</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member names:<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-12 21:06:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>RJ Allie Middle School</title>
         <author>denisethornton</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/585258074</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Member Names:  Christopher White, C.J. Hill<br><br>Record your SHORT TERM and LONG TERM goal here. <br><br>Short Term: Identify key concepts that students did not receive as well as concepts that are traditionally lost over the summer.<br><br>Long Term: Evaluate student progress through supporting teachers in collecting and analyzing data to monitor student progress and evaluating the effectiveness of instruction and intervention.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-20 16:10:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Summer Creek Middle School</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/denisethornton/TXNSI/wish/585271910</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Team Members- Grossman, Knox, Sapp<br><br>Short term: Continue to build on PD for team on using learning log and a total class participant strategy (AVID or Kagan) as a tool for engagement and formative assessment.<br><br>Long term: Develop a plan and train teachers on what we do with the formative assessment data received.  Implement differentiated instruction (ex: how to use a teacher table for intervention) based on data to ensure all students making progress in identified power standards.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2020-05-20 16:16:33 UTC</pubDate>
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