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Friday, January 19, 2018

Janaury 19, 2018

Yes, we as educators must ensure that our students are independent, engaged, and successful. So how do we guide them to become more independent learners? Take a look at THIS ARTICLE for three strategies to help foster this including, inspiring them, helping them to set goals, and having them evaluate how they are doing!

EVERYONE feeds off of positive praise and recognition! Have YOU taken a moment to praise a student, send a positive card home to a student, compliments/thanked a colleague, written a Good News Referral to a student or staff member? It takes LESS than 5 minutes to spread a little kindness and positive vibes around here so let's step up to the plate! Still not convinced? Check out THIS ARTICLE for the 7 effects of positive praise for students!

WOULD YOU WANT TO BE A STUDENT IN YOUR CLASS???

IF YOUR STUDENTS DIDN'T HAVE TO BE IN YOUR CLASS, WOULD THEY SHOW UP ANYWAY??

WALKTHROUGH DATA

Take a moment to review this walk through information. What trends are WE seeing in each classroom? What can we do to support your instruction to take it further? What can YOU do to take your instruction to a higher level of DOK, engagement and mastery??

Forms response chart. Question title: Observed DOK Levels. Number of responses: .

Forms response chart. Question title: What DOK Level were the majority of the activities/lesson that were observed?. Number of responses: 152 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Academic Discourse. Number of responses: 133 responses.

WHAT DOES OUR DATA SHOW? HOW CAN WE REACH ALL STUDENTS????

Check out some of the UPDATED Tweets that are ALWAYS going on around campus! Stop by and see what's happening in your colleague's classrooms! These pics below are updated WEEKLY! Aren't following everyone yet? Follow US @GVMSVIKINGS and we have everyone's Twitter handle! =)

SHOUT OUT to Kimberly, Tamia, Amy, Christen, Josiah, Dave F., Sue, Pozzesi, Jamie, Alisa, Liz, Heather P., Ryan, Lacey, Katherine, Anita, Cristina, Lynn, Heather T., Lorraine, Kristy, Alex, Dustin, Carol, Elizabeth and K & C for posting as many great things about GVMS as we can! WE LOVE to brag about what's going on at GVMS!

SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS! KEEP THEM COMING! We love the "I Noticed..." and will add as many as we can!

Click HERE to add! (132)

SUPER awesome shout out to Heather P. and Katherine for all of their new and creative ways to reach our students and sharing them with our team! ~Lynn

SUPER awesome shout out to Dave F. and those that attended the conversation on having a tutorial period for next year! AMAZING turnout! ~Sue

SUPER awesome shout out to Heather P. for the addition to the notes about STOP yelling at the messenger! ~KC and CL and Math

SUPER awesome shout out to Dustin for continuing the coffee in the AM!

SUPER awesome shout out to Susan for jumping on the 6th grade registration and getting it going! ~KC

SUPER awesome shout out to Sarj for his recovery and coming back so soon! He missed us!!

SUPER awesome shout out to our History Department for their collab day and coming together on Tuesday! ~KC and CL

SUPER awesome shout out to our 6th grade team for tracking down kids and contacting parents for students in our ELA Lab! ~Julie

SUPER awesome shout out to our History Department for being so supportive and checking on me since my return! ~Sandy

SUPER awesome shout out to Annette, Ken, Alex, Tamia, Sue, Lynn, Katherine, Josiah, Julie, Christen, Heather T., Paula, Carol, Susan, Michele S., Michele L-R, KC and CL for writing Good News Referrals already! We have 91 written for January already!

Friday, January 12, 2018

January 12, 2018

A new year brings a refreshing new start to our daily life AND to your teaching life! Take a moment and try ONE NEW THING this year! Take a risk! Try coding, make room for collaboration, try starting each period with a 1 minute breathing exercise, model mindfulness, MAKE MISTAKES and learn from them! Take a look at THIS EASY ARTICLE about easy ways to try something new to make your teaching more effective!

New Ideas for ENGAGEMENT! Until we are at 100%, WHICH WE ARE NOT, we will CONTINUE this conversation as high levels of engagement directly link to higher achievement, LOWER off task behavior, and all around happier students!

As we start a new year, let's implement new and rejuvenating experiences within our classrooms! Let's make it AUTHENTIC with purpose! Take a MINUTE to check out THIS ARTICLE to help make your life easier and our kids' experience and education more meaningful!