Standards-Based Bulletin Boards

Work Over Time At

Chets Creek ElementaryDebby Cothern and Michelle Ellis

Beginning• Recipe to Follow

• Title, Task, Standards, 4 Pieces of Student Work, Teacher Commentary

• Teachers Shared the Task

• Writing• Predictable• Limited Use

End of the YearWork Over Time

• Rainbows• The Beginning of a Change• Student Work Spanned Two Years

Transition

• More Creativity was Explored• Mainly Writing with 1 Math and 1

Science Board a Year Added• Teachers Still Shared the Template of

a Board Across a Grade Level• Boards Were not Unique From

Classroom to Classroom

The Change Began

• The work produced was a reaction to needing work to create a board

• The work on the boards is a reaction to needing to share the work that is produced in the classroom

A Purpose In Mind

• Professional Development• Parental Understanding• Student Growth

Strategy Boards

Somebody Wanted But So

Kylene Beers

When Kids Can’t Read What Teachers Can Do

Somebody Wanted

But So

Math Rekenrek

Constructing Number Sense

Cathy Fosnot

Young Mathematicians at Work

Work Over Time• One student’s work looking at his Report

Writing from Kindergarten to First-Grade

Work Over Time• DRA Reading Levels

Recordings

Skills BlockPhonemic Awareness

Children, Children What Do We Hear?

Recordings

Writing Habits BoardListen To What I Can Do

Works-In-Progress

A Look at a Child’s Works-In-Progress Folder

Writing Conferences

Lucy Calkins

The Conferring Handbook

Bulletin Board Buddies

• Two teachers planning their separate boards together

• Troubleshooting ideas with Grade-level

Boardwalk Feedback Forms

Self Reflection

• What will I do differently next time?• What type of board would I like to do

next, after seeing my colleagues work?