The high school committee shared these two powerful practices yesterday.
1. Close Reading strategies ensures students write about what they read in order to demonstrate understanding and genuine meaning-making. 2. All schools are working on Progress Monitoring on many levels: each classroom, in PLCs by course/department, and through county wide benchmark predictive assessments. Each school also has student tutoring and intervention or enrichment protocols to respond to data.
1. Close Reading strategies ensures students write about what they read in order to demonstrate understanding and genuine meaning-making. 2. All schools are working on Progress Monitoring on many levels: each classroom, in PLCs by course/department, and through county wide benchmark predictive assessments. Each school also has student tutoring and intervention or enrichment protocols to respond to data.
- Article on How Progress Monitoring Improves Instruction
- BSA and LCHS shared the importance of these processes.
- Central Office Lead Teacher for Literacy echoed the need for progress monitoring and how we work to support each school in the roll-out of these methods.