Arts & Letters
The term for books that lack page numbers.
What is unpaginated?
The blue tickets that reinforce positive behavior and school-wide expectations.
What are Cub Paws?
Small groups that are data-driven and skill-based. They frequently change based on data and student needs.
What are flexible groups?
DAILY DOUBLE
One of the computer-based games students could play during math WIN time that adjusts in real time to each student's unique learning pace.
An Instructional Routine where students discuss an aspect of the text with a series of partners. The teacher sets the length of time for discussion before students find a new partner.
What is Mix and Mingle?
The number of positive interactions for each negative/corrective that a student should receive each day.
What is 5? (or 5:1)
This new SEL survey replaced DESSA this year.
What is SAEBRS?
This mathematical practice involves the teacher noticing strategies, asking for reasoning, and listening strategically while students are working.
What is monitor?
The section of each lesson (connected to a Learning Task) where teachers can monitor, offer support, or plan for future lessons.
What is Analyze Student Progress?
These disciplinary referrals are not meant to punish, but are rather used as data to inform what supports are needed to support at Tiers 1, 2, and 3.
What are Office Disciplinary Referrals (ODRs)?
This tier of a successful WIN block involves moving beyond grade-level standards. Students may practice skills at a higher grade level to meet their needs.
What is Extension?
Teachers could use this section of an IM lesson to provide direct instruction.
What is the synthesis?
In this content stage, students "zoom out" to determine the text's or texts' central idea or theme.
What is Distill Stage?
What are Opportunities to Respond?
If you forget to sign your name in this black binder on Friday PD afternoons, you might not receive these.
What are clock hours?
The order in which a teacher should select student strategies to highlight with the rest of the class.
What is concrete to abstract?
A core practice in A&L where readers mark or make notes on a text. Research shows that doing this can improve readers' engagement with and comprehension of text.
What is annotation?
A graphic organizer for behavior that helps students understand the consequence of behavior choices.
What is a Contingency Map?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the number of radios currently in use at Tahoma Elementary.
The type of questioning that moves student thinking towards the lesson goals and encourages students to think about their solution or strategy in new ways.
What is advancing?