Student Voice
Above all else, how will you impart leadership to your students through inquiry? While you maintain a proactive stance, how might students become a part of the process? You'll notice a place for "Student Voice" in Part B of the form (section vi).
Above all else, how will you impart leadership to your students through inquiry? While you maintain a proactive stance, how might students become a part of the process? You'll notice a place for "Student Voice" in Part B of the form (section vi).
Observation, Documentation & Monitoring
A) SIPSA (School Improvement Plan for Student Achievement)
Report on Number Talks: A Year-long Reflection
This report reviews and examines year-long reflections (2017-18) made by educators, as they studied and incorporated computational strategies for student learning into their pedagogical practice, monitored the learning process for their focus students, shared their students’ learning with school team members, and collectively set directions and implemented next steps to improve their students’ learning. Interpretations of teacher reflections and recommendations have been provided to help spur questions and conversations about whole-school improvement through professional learning.
This report reviews and examines year-long reflections (2017-18) made by educators, as they studied and incorporated computational strategies for student learning into their pedagogical practice, monitored the learning process for their focus students, shared their students’ learning with school team members, and collectively set directions and implemented next steps to improve their students’ learning. Interpretations of teacher reflections and recommendations have been provided to help spur questions and conversations about whole-school improvement through professional learning.
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Monitoring Tools
The following tools, as provided in the Appendices to the report, are available for download (below).
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Year-long Reflection Tool
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School Learning Team: Monitoring Tool for School-Based Cycles of Inquiry
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Monitoring for Impact-Parts 1 & 2:
The Role of Data & Planning for Impact
The Role of Data & Planning for Impact
These presentations (slideshows; previews below) have been designed as an introductory support for your organization's facilitation of professional learning in the area of monitoring improvement practices. As learning goals, your team(s) will focus on the following:
These presentations are designed to be interactive, as they include references to external, digital collaboration tools. It also includes links to digital forms for collaboration and for session feedback (when accessing the embedded links, you will be prompted to make your own copy) and leaves 'space' for supporting ongoing learning.
- Learning to support your colleagues with the virtual delivery of professional learning sessions (Parts 1 & 2)
- Applying critical thinking to understanding the role and impact of the use of data in school improvement practices (Part 1)
- Through consideration of monitoring practices, learning to support others in effectively coming to know their impact (Part 2)
These presentations are designed to be interactive, as they include references to external, digital collaboration tools. It also includes links to digital forms for collaboration and for session feedback (when accessing the embedded links, you will be prompted to make your own copy) and leaves 'space' for supporting ongoing learning.
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Presentation - Part 1
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Presentation - Part 2
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Your copy of Monitoring for Impact-Part 1
Your copy of Monitoring for Impact-Part 2
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Professional Reading
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Part 1
Thomas Guskey's "Gauge Impact With 5 Levels of Data"
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Part 2
Capacity Building Series "Pedagogical Documentation Revisited: Looking at Assessment and Learning in New Ways"
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C) Observation & Feedback in the Thinking Classroom
PART A of the form (below) can serve as a documentation tool for your observations in Thinking Classrooms. You might find it helpful in the following scenarios:
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A) Working with Your Administrator for Classroom Walk-throughs
B) Working with a Coach or Mentor
C) School Learning Teams and/or Teacher Inquiry
PART B of the form is designed to help you frame your thinking for going deeper with studying student thinking and learning. Consider establishing student profiles and using them to developing a deeper knowledge of your students' strengths and needs.
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14 Elements of the Thinking Classroom
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Student Voice
Above all else, how will you impart leadership to your students through inquiry? While you maintain a proactive stance, how might students become part of the process? You'll notice a place for "Student Voice" in Part B of the form (section vi).
Above all else, how will you impart leadership to your students through inquiry? While you maintain a proactive stance, how might students become part of the process? You'll notice a place for "Student Voice" in Part B of the form (section vi).
- What can a year-long approach to school improvement look like? -
- How might the efforts of you, your staff, other educators and students be linked to
Motivation for Learning? -
- How might the efforts of you, your staff, other educators and students be linked to
Motivation for Learning? -
Below, you'll find a concise guide to inquiry planning and assessment that you can use to move through and support the various stages in your school's improvement practices. The guide is organized into the following areas:
Pre-Inquiry Planning & Assessment Tool
Also important to note are the number of templates and guides associated for use with teachers and other educators in your school and district. Each of these, along with their descriptors, can be found in the Supporting Guides & Templates section, below.
Pre-Inquiry Planning & Assessment Tool
- Data and Observations that Inform
- Goal Setting
- Includes links to sample guiding questions and success criteria aligned to creating motivational mathematics classrooms
- Resources for Supporting Collaboration
- Guiding Prompts for Cycles of Inquiry
- Templates and Guides for Administrators and Educators
- Reflective Prompts for Leaders
- Suggested Resources for Leaders' Professional Learning
Also important to note are the number of templates and guides associated for use with teachers and other educators in your school and district. Each of these, along with their descriptors, can be found in the Supporting Guides & Templates section, below.
Pre-Inquiry Planning & Assessment Tool (Guide)
Supporting Guides & Templates
Sample Guiding Questions & Success Criteria for Studying Student Motivation
For each chapter of book, Motivated—Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In (Author: Ilana Seidel Horn) a series of guiding questions and sample success criteria have been provided to help guide you and your school learning teams through the process of
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Monitoring for Improvement - Administrator Version
The guide and template provided here offer you an opportunity to help support the collaboration of your learning teams' journey with an emphasis on documenting the learning experiences of both students and educators.
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Monitoring for Improvement - Educator Version
The guide and template provided here offer you an opportunity to help you support your work with students with varying needs, where the emphasis is on documenting and making documentation pedagogical for you and your students. A year-long approach to documenting, analyzing & interpreting, and reflecting is included.
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