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COHORT CORNER
D.C. REGION PILOT COHORT / NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Please send along your students most recent assessment data so I can be looped in about where your kids are and we can use the data to inform next steps in our work together. Im building a site out for our cohort, but would love you all to add some resources in our cohort Drobpox entitled Pilot Cohort Site. Youre all doing incredible things in your classrooms and I want to be able to spread the resource love! Check your inbox for the Dropbox invite!
Issue # 5
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SEND YOUR STUDENTS MOST RECENT ACHIEVEMENT RESULTS
Announcements
COHORT BRUNCH What: An important opportunity for us to reconnect as a cohort, as well as to brainstorm and provide input on strategies
collaborating and the kinds of learning for experiences we want to undergo together. RSVP and record your brunch item here! When; December 4th @ 1pm Where: Chelsea Kirks! (1400 Irving St NW, Apt 221) TFA HOLIDAY PARTY What: Come kick off the holiday season with staff and CMs and celebrate the work you and your colleagues have done this year at our annual holiday party! When: Friday, December 9th, time TBD
Resource Spotlight
EVOLUTION OF A VISION Follow one 2011 CM as he experiences the evolution of his vision, reects on the challenges of October and opening himself up emotionally to his students. RESOURCES FROM BROOKLYN LATIN Check out this zip folder of awesome rubrics that Brooklyn Latin HS teachers use to evaluate students performance on formative science activities, Socratic seminars, as well as their collaboration skills
MATH/SCIENCE WEB SITE! Looking for an awesome library of engaging online math and science simulations? Jordan recommends that you check out Gizmos! You pay to create an account, but can alternate between email addresses to extend that 30-day trial :) NEW DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE Check out this awesome discussion technique that Eliza found at a recent PD! MATH COMMON CORE VIDEO LESSONS Get ideas for how to teach Common Core Math content for grades 3-9 at Learnzillion (thanks, Cendahl!) PARENT CONFERENCES POWERPOINT See how Julia Sadowsky shares students holistic progress and tips for ways parents can support learning with an amazingly concrete PowerPoint
they wanted to make their family members, friends, or themselves proud. By pushing kids to make meaningful connections to their short and long-term goals, she is helping kids to understand the motivating purpose behind the hard work they are doing. --Joaquin Lydia Peelefor going out of her way to reach out to parents and families of her middle schoolers by conducting home visits. By doing so, she is building positive relationships with her most hard-to-reach students and families and reected that doing so made students feeling incredibly valued. I was also impressed to see incorporate a seminar activity in her Math class, which provided her kids with a meaningful way to practice their accountable talk and discussion skills. --Joaquin Eliza, Molly, Gillon, and Campbell--for inviting parents and families to join our parent/student panel during Cohort time at the last PDS. After, several CMs from our cohort reached out Lia and I to share that the insights they gleaned from these parents and students perspectives pushed their thinking and inspired them to take meaningful steps to build more meaningful relationships with families. --Joaquin Chelsea Kirkfor being a constant source of joy, encouragement, and fun in my life. Looking forward to many more years of teaching and friendship!-Shajena Anne Marie Norgrenfor facilitating an awesome series of expositions (or boardwork), which she picked up on during our excellent school visit to Brooklyn Latin High School. I was inspired by how she used this activity to elevate rigor in her classroom. At each stage, presenters had to justify their responses using precise math language while their peers evaluated presenters answers for accuracy. After, they provided their peers with meaningful feedback on their presentation skills using their iPads. Not only did she use this activity as an opportunity to push their Math knowledge, but she added some innovative twists to help kids improve their public speaking skills and tech literacy. --Joaquin Joaquinfor planning an awesome ESV trip for our region!--Beth Clair Briggsfor being quick to implement changes in her classroom that led to visible improvements with some of her most challenging mods! Im excited to work with her to build on this string of wins :)--Joaquin Indira Cruz for her extreme dedication to her kids and for a muchneeded chat on PDS Saturday - thanks for keepin' it real with me!! :)--Campbell Josh Johnsonfor going above and beyond with his kids by getting an awesome grant for the second year in a row! Can't wait for more crazy greenhouse stories :)--Kelly Gleischman Lauren, Josh, and Beth for running an awesome session on Socratic seminars at PDS!--Meredith Anamika Dwivedifor reaching out proactively to a staff member to brainstorm ways in which we could extend the learning experiences that CMs are undergoing in our cohort to teachers in other cohorts. I love how shes viewing the region holistically and not just thinking about her or our cohorts students, but what needs to be true to maximize the experience for CMs and students across our region. --Joaquin Anne Marie Norgrenfor holding it down out in PG!--Cendahl Alex Kruppfor modifying Laurens high school debate resources to facilitate a debate with her elementary students. Although she was unsure of how it would go over, she realized that students would need more opportunities to converse with each other if she wanted them to realize her vision of pushing her students to become Socratic scholars. After, she reected that passing the reins along to students was not only liberating for her, but highly motivating and empowering for students. Engagement spiked, in large part because students were asked not to recall others views but to share their opinions in a structured and constructive way. --Joaquin Carolyn Byrnefor reaching out to collaborate around an idea she has for partnering with a diverse array of experienced staff and educators to helps ECE CMs in our region develop a clear vision for what learning experiences students in early childhood classrooms should experience to be set up for long-term success. Im excited to work with her and other ECE CMs and staff in our region to facilitate a conversation that I know could push the thinking of many students. --Joaquin Chelsea Kirkfor being a great inspiration to me this year!-Anne Marie
after our adventures in bus-riding. Thanks to my other ESV pals for keeping me sane and entertained and for being great listeners and travel companions.--Beth Joaquinwho works endlessly to help make us a better group of transformative teachers!--Shajena Campbell Glennfor successfully launching a school-wide management system that she learned about while visiting Uncommon Schools. This system allows students to earn bucks for meeting school expectations, which they can then exchange at a quarterly auction for tangible rewards. Kudos to her for working to cast a wider net of impact on school culture and for persisting through challenging interactions with colleagues to build consensus and get teachers behind this successful initiative. --Joaquin Gillon Crichtonfor pushing his students to engage in higher-order thinking through the careful integration of reading and writing instruction and ipping the script on his instruction by facilitating an innovative lesson in which students spent the rst half studying about and learning a topic and then second half teaching each other topic. During this lesson, kids studied a text, extracted key ideas from it, and then taught those key ideas to their classmates. This student-centered approach to instruction made for very little teacher talk and pushed kids to do a lot of the heavy cognitive work. --Joaquin Josh and Laurenfor sharing their awesome Socratic seminar resources and ideas! So excited to try out lots of your suggestions!--Beth Nicole Spoelmafor using morning meeting as an important vehicle for fostering a trusting environment, reect as a class on their progress toward reading goals, and establishing a personal link to their goals. During my last visit, one student proclaimed that she wants to work hard so that she could be the rst in their family to graduate from high school, while others shared how