Humanities

Team Kickoff

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Multiple Choice Opener

What genre best describes your life?

1. Confusing like a mystery
2. Enchanting like a fantasy
3. Eventful like a memoir
4. Exploratory like an adventure
5. Simple and impactful like a poem

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Share/jot out a word that resonates with you

Mastery Charter Prep Middle is a joyful and authentic school that prioritizes student achievement. Our deep belief and high support provide our students with the tools they each need to succeed, to serve and thrive within our community.

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ARE STUDENTS LEARNING?�

• Snap your fingers if you’ve walked into someone’s classroom and could tell students were learning
• Snap your fingers if you ever taught a lesson and weren’t sure if all students internalized the skill
• Snap your fingers if you ever saw a student do well in class but poorly on an assessment
• Snap your fingers if you’ve seen a student grow under your instruction

Teacher A🡨 Teacher B 🡪 �Which statements are data informed?

“My students did better. They did better with learning it this time!”

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“My students performed better with nearly 60% of them Mastery the skill compared to around 25% last week”.

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“They don’t know what they’re doing”.

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“They’re struggling with identifying how reconstruction affected African Americans. I’m reviewing it during tomorrow’s Do Now”.

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“I don’t know why they didn’t learn it, I want to review the exit tickets more to find the common trend”.

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Department/School-wide Goals

• By 9/27 (Mid RP 1), the MAP Reading and Math Growth Percentile is 45% or greater.

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• 70% of Tier 1/Tier 2 students score 60% or higher on the End of Module

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**individual goals set for SJ/BWH

1. Data Driven

What does data driven instruction look like?

1. is an educational approach that relies on information to inform teaching and learning.
2. is an educational approach that relies on looking at assessment data to see how students performed
3. is an observational approach that relies one ensuring that teachers are instructing.
4. is an educational method for judging student potential and growth.

RP1 Initiatives

1. Intellectual Preparation |RP1-RP4 ~ Plan strong all year long!
2. Data Driven Culture
1. Teacher awareness of student performance
2. Lesson planning meeting focused on your data and responsiveness to data
3. Classroom reflects a culture of celebrating student growth & performance

III. MAP Growth (70% or more of Tier 1/2 students score 60% or more on EOM)

Tier 1-Tier 2 students {ELA/BWH}

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2.

Which of the following is a stronger best practice for teacher reflection and leader support?

1. Teacher and leader memory of what happened during class
2. Leader telling teacher what they should do and assuming they will do it
3. Teacher assuming because they taught a lesson in the past that it doesn’t need to be revised
4. Teacher and leader reviewing a video together of teaching practice to discuss execution and next steps

3. What is the standard definition for learning?

1. The process of when a teacher teaches students
2. The process of a student repeating what they were taught
3. The acquisition of knowledge or skills
4. The teacher planning having a strong lesson

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4. What is the purpose of lit centers this year?

1. To provide a place for students to relax, chat with friends and hang out
2. To provide opportunities for students to do their homework
3. To provide an engaging opportunity for scholars to read grade level text

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[give out lit center structure hard copy + day one overview]

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Day 1

• Culture in ELA classes
• Lockers in History

Closing

Right now we are eager and excited to teach, meet our students, and start the room brand new. Imagine what you would tell yourself this time in December after a rough day. Write a pep talk to yourself sharing how great you are, why this work is important to you, and what you are capable of.

ELA

What are you most excited about this year?

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ELA Initiatives

• Data Focused Instruction! Moving beyond assessment data using Exit Ticket data and becoming a data driven TEAM
• Lesson Plan – available everyday, teacher annotations, evidence of exemplar

🡪 Lesson Planning meetings with DG or NW

• Wheatley Fidelity

🡪 All classrooms showing the fundamentals of Wheatley! Love of Wheatley!

• Collaborative Student Work Review

🡪 Wheatley Feedback Lessons

🡪1x a week Exit Ticket check (DG samples your exit ticket and lesson plan, or teacher brings to a meeting)

This Week!

• Prep for your first few days of instruction (see G’s email, 1:1 meetings)
• Tuesday-Wednesday Central Training at the Convention Center
• Project for Summer Reading Book – be familiar with the book

(see G’s email, 1:1 meetings)

• Call at least 2-3 families prior to Thursday to remind about cookout and Summer Reading!
• Classroom set-up (throughout the week, August 24^th building open) (classroom set-up rubric)
• Lit Teaming Meeting – Tuesday