Information only regarding updates made to Branching Minds. All teachers are now able to: Print a student’s Family Communication table: tutorial Print a student’s Meeting Summary table: tutorial See and find students who …
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7 STEPS TO A LANGUAGE-RICH INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM REVIEW OF STEP 5: USE VISUALS AND VOCABULARY STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT YOUR OBJECTIVES. Important ideas from the text: Visuals dramatically increase student ability to …
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We spend hours setting up the classroom and building relationships and now is the time to really reflect on the things that we SAY as teachers. If you choose one …
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Seidlitz Step 4: USE TOTAL RESPONSE SIGNALS TO CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING The book explains that total response signals are cues students use to indicate they are ready to respond to …
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Consider this quote… “the person doing the most talking is doing the most learning in a classroom.” What does your classroom sound like? Are all students participating in academic conversations? …
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Mrs. Norris has found a great resource that can help all of our EL learners! The website found here allows you to search by alphabetically by content for Spanish cognates! …
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Math quantiles for grades STAAR 3-8 and Algebra 1 tests are now available in Aware. When you open a student’s test page, the information is found with the other testing results. The …
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TESTING NEXT TUESDAY OCTOBER 23 This is it…The road begins on this adventure. We will be testing Writing 7 and Reading 8. Please review the following information prior to …
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Region 6 will offer the following ESL Certification preparation course for the TExES #164 exam. November 1st and 2nd – at the Brazos Center in Bryan. For more details click …
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