ICs met on 11.6.18 and spent the morning focusing on coaching strategies to improve planning, data analysis, coteaching and reflecting. The afternoon was dedicated to Essential Instructional Practices, data analysis and the Read By Third Grade law. Coaches are partners for teachers in their PLC and the goal is to strengthen practice in literacy to improve student outcomes.
Building team is important to collaborative work. An inclusion activity starts the day of learning
A day of learning for Dearborn staff on 11.6.18. ECS gathered to focus on data analysis of their kinder students and teamed to do a case study on one of their students. ECS also focused on Struggling Readers-a text in the LLI kit-and spent time analyzing how to use student performance (running records) and progress monitoring to determine next steps for instructional planning. A joyous yet tiring day.
Bring canned goods to your schools in the annual Battle Against Hunger from November 12-16. There is a walk/run race to kick this event off on November 10th at Ford Field. A very worthy initiative and led successfully by our Dearborn students the last several years.
FYI ~ Support for Family Engagement
If you haven’t seen this article on the “5 Strategies for Successful Parent-Teacher Conferences”, it’s pretty good. There are also several other articles linked at the end.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-strategies-successful-parent-teacher-conference
Our collective efforts can help make Michigan a Top 10 education state in 10 years! Here are the goals and strategies: https://mi.gov/top10in10/
Students in Ms. Alaouie’s Language Arts class were given an assignment to create rhetoric in the real world; so they can see it’s everywhere. The class spent time analyzing visual texts and commercials, and were then asked to create their own. One group of students chose to bring awareness to the social issue of voting and having your voice count. Students planned everything, from choosing a target audience, identifying the rhetorical strategies, and creating the videos and editing.
A student from Ms. Dumke’s class at Snow was invited to light the torch for United Way. A true honor.
Miller students celebrated core values and model behavior with a magician and a fall festival complete with animals and pumpkins.
Thirty of our students attended the WSU Giant Step Conference on Oct. 23, 2018, which is also National Mix It Up Lunch Day. 41 schools and 250 9th-11th graders attended the conference that promoted social harmony and inclusion through shared issues and experiences. Giant Step teens come from diverse backgrounds to share, learn and eventually uncover what they have in common.
Principal Bob Attee thanks the exchange Club of Dearborn for their support of families in need.
