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Let’s Play Ball

No Talking only Movement If another team uses a ball you have on your paper, cross it out. You may not use the same ball as another team. This will disqualify your team. Clockwise, each person will have the chance to get up and throw/catch a ball till the game ends. Warning!!!!! This game will move quickly

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Literacy Goals Revisited

• Assess systematically to monitor the growth of all, identify strengths and weaknesses then differentiate based on needs

• Utilize rigorous standards to create the 21st Century learner

• Increase the quality and consistency of reading and writing instruction with a systemic highly research based cutting edge program

• Robust instruction in vocabulary, comprehension, in critical thinking skills, how to engage and think about text as they read, problem-solve and draw connections between self-text, among texts, and text-world.

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21st Century Skills

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Current Brain Research

This generation struggles with:

• Context

• Transfer

• Part to whole relationships

• Inferential thinking

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Ownership of Mobile Media Platforms Increasing Exponentially 0-8 Years of Age

52%

21%

8%

41%

75%

27%

40%

63%

Any Mobile Device

IPOD Touch/Similar

Tablet

Smartphone

2013 2011

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Among 0-8 Year Olds, % Who Have Ever Used Mobile Devices

Ever Used, 38%

Never Used, 62% Ever

Used, 72%

Never Used, 28%

2011 2013

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Children Are Accessing Ebooks Younger and Younger • Ebook Reading, By Age, 2013

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9%

27%

39%

Ages 0-1

Ages 2-4

Ages 5-8

Meeting the Call to Action

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21st Century Skills

Foundational Skills

Personalized Learning Path For Each Student

Assessment: Wellness Checks

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On-Going Progress Monitoring

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Authentic Assessment

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Focus Boards

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Close Reading

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Elbow Partners

1. Find one or two elbow partners

2. Read the text on the next slide

3. Answer the essential question

4. Be prepared to share

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Inference

John Fielder could have drowned on his way to work. His raft bumped over the rocks and pitched through rapids on the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado.

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Essential Question

What do you infer from this text?

John Fielder could have drowned on his way to work. His raft bumped over the rocks and pitched through rapids on the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado.

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NEW and INNOVATIVE: Math

Piloted in K 2013-2014

Skills/Strategies of computation

Fluency of skills

Math vocabulary

Ability to apply math to solve problems

Use math in engaging ways connected to the world around them

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Blended learning

Collaborative conversations with manipulatives

Routines

Work Stations

Authentic assessment including verbal display of knowledge; self-check evaluation

Multiple pathways to provide personalized learning experiences

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NEW: Research and Inquiry Lab

Computer skills needed to engage in research

Combined with

Skills to determine appropriate sources plus time to actively research

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6_Hzgqfmg

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STAY TUNED…

While you are away on summer break,

We will be planning to further innovate!

In the fall we can’t wait to discuss…

Interactive notebooks for literacy and math

Questioning technique from Harvard Professors

Aspirations and Gaudy Goals

Continued personalized learning pathways

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