Checking In

Checking In

Now that our SLOs have been in place for several weeks, and the end of the trimester is drawing near, it's a great time to check-in.  It's a great opportunity to see how far students have come, as well as identify specific steps that can be taken to keep things moving toward the attainment of your goals. Here are 2 questions to consider:

1.  How can students be involved?
When students are involved, you get better results.  If you give them the ability to visualize their own growth, even students in the earliest grades can have a clear understanding of what it means to work toward their goals.  This can be done by helping students understand:

• what it looks like to know and be able to use specific skills or strategies
• what specific activities they can do to help themselves move toward their goal
• how they’ll know if they’re on the right track (self-reflection, in-class assessments, a conference with their teacher) to reaching their goal

2. What are some things that can be done to help ensure the students are on track?

Because SLOs are often set for the whole year, one of the most important keys to success is to break down these big-picture goals into tangible mini-goals.  Without this systematic checkpoint, it can be difficult to have a clear picture of whether or not the class is on track.  This kind of progress check can be done through common assessments, student reading observations, or other formal/informal  measures.  Using these results allows teachers to identify where things are at, and if there's a need to course-correct.

Teachers are to enter their current F&P scores into Skyward by Friday, Dec. 2nd.  We will be using this data for our grade level roll-throughs during PLC time on Tuesday, December 6th.  For these roll-throughs, we are going to look at grade level reading intervention and enrichment groups, and if time, math intervention groups. 

In addition, here's the Report Card Schedule:

• Early Release Friday, Dec. 2nd to work on report cards
• Monday, Dec. 5th - first print
• Changes and finalization by Wed. Dec. 7th
• Send home Thursday, Dec. 8th

Please let me know if you have any questions!
Sue