Transcript The Journey - Charlotte
2017 2016 2015 2014
The Journey
Elon Park Elementary, South Learning Community
Vision
At Elon Park Elementary, staff, students, families and community members collaborate to provide an extraordinary learning environment where all reach their full potential, enrich their individual talents and exhibit school pride
…at ALL times, in EVERYTHING they do.
Mission
At Elon Park Elementary, the school community will support the commitment to the following: • Providing every student with rigorous, engaging and balanced instruction.
• Basing all decisions on student strengths and needs according to all available data.
• Appropriate, effective collaboration among staff, families and community members for the benefit of each student. • Facilitation of 21 st century learning through implementation of best practices.
• Delivery and participation in effective professional development.
• Continuous school improvement.
• 180 School Days resulting in a minimum of one year’s growth academically for every student.
Coffee Chat Norms
•Please put cell phones on vibrate •If you have to take a call, please go into the hallway •Limit sidebar conversations •Hold questions until the end of each segment •Focus on issues that are within our control 1.
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Today’s Agenda:
Sales Tax Referendum Readers’ Workshop Parent Feedback, questions, etc..
2014-2015 Leadership Team
• Chuck Fortuna – Principal • Jane Armbruster – Assistant Principal • Craig Higgins – Dean of Students • Jason Geiger – Principal Intern • Mary Strawderman – Facilitator • Jill Boyajy - Facilitator
Sales Tax Referendum
Readers’ Workshop
Growing Ideas about Characters - Learning Progression Chart
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
1. After reading the level descriptions and example post-its, students identify where on the progression their post-it fits. The teacher works with a small group of students to help them move their thinking up to the next level.
2. On this progression, a Level 5 post-it would involve describing multiple characters with evidence. It would also include descriptions of the relationship between two characters and how that affects the plot.
When I describe characters, I mostly use the author’s words. I find details when I read, and I jot those exact details onto my post-its.
I notice specific details about what a character says and does, and I use this information to identify a trait or traits that describe my character. I may list evidence, but it does not directly support my claim.
I grow ideas about characters that are not directly stated in the book. I identify a trait that describes my character and support my thinking with specific and relevant evidence from the text.
My ideas about characters show that I know that a person isn’t just one way. I identify multiple character traits and use specific evidence from many parts of the text to support my thinking. These traits may be complimentary or contrasting.
Example Jane Goodall moved from England to Africa to study chimpanzees.
Example Jane Goodall is adventurous, brave, curious, and caring. She lived in Africa with chimpanzees.
Example Jane Goodall is adventurous because she left her home in England and traveled across the ocean to Africa to live in a tent and observe chimps in the wild.
Example Jane Goodall is determined. She stayed in Africa to continue working with the chimps even when things got tough. When she first arrived, her and her mother got sick. Another time, a chimp knocked her off a small cliff. She never gave up because she cared about the chimps. She created an institute to help protect them.
Readers’ Workshop
Parent Feedback
• Questions • Comments • Suggestions • Rumors??