Instructional Norms
This daily learning routine has one main teaching point and generally three to four activities for up to five students.
What is small-group instruction?
This is the primary SS text and online platform for K-3 Social Studies.
What is TCI?
These math or reading teachers share a classroom designed for 8-10 small-group rotations scheduled throughout the day.
What are the interventionists?
Students whose primary language since birth or currently in the home is not English
Who are English [Language] Learners?
In secondary schools, this is the primary resource used to teach English.
What is HMH Into Literature and Writable?
In grades 3 and up, this norm is a literary analysis technique that involves reading a text carefully and paying close attention to its details to understand its meaning.
What is Close Reading?
This digital resource is the primary text for American History, World History Survey, United States Government, Economics, Global Geography, African American History & Confronting Racism at WHS.
What is the HMH Social Studies Collection Digital Library?
The period of time between intervention cycles where interventionists analyze student growth, plan next steps for instruction and communicate changes in student groupings or schedules.
What is a planning week?
The name of an academic program for English language acquisition
What is ESL?
Sound-letter basics; letter formation and building stamina; spelling; elements of grammar; sentence composition; and the development of writing skills and habits
What are the Foundational Reading Skills?
To promote whole brain teaching and overall student well-being, screen time in the classroom is monitored by the teacher using this instructional norm.
What is balanced technology?
This digital subscription is a resource for many SS electives at WHS including Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Political & Legal Education, African American History, World Religions, plus Ancient & Medieval History.
What is InfoBase?
These teacher leaders model Literacy best practices, Lead Data meetings, provide intense reading intervention and support the I&RS Team to prevent a disproportionate number of CST referrals.
What is the LLS (Literacy specialist)?
Speaking, Listening, Reading & Writing
What are the language domains?
The primary resource used in K-6 reading, applied mostly in teaching the RL (literature) standards.
What is Scholastic Literacy?
How teachers pull a data-informed, heterogeneous mixed of students for small-groups to avoid labeling of "low" or "high" learners.
What is flexible grouping?
National Geographic- Western Civilization and American Pageant Textbooks
What are the primary sources/texts for Advanced Placement American and US History classes at WHS?
This primary source for math intervention lessons is aligned to the tier one program.
What is EnVision MDIS?
This annual state assessment covers the four language domains in ESL and runs 6-8 weeks.
What is the ACCESS?
The primary resource used in K-3 to teach phonemic awareness, phonics, letter formation, word awareness and sentence composition.
What is Fundations?
These 10-minute lessons are designed to be clear and concise, and to help students understand the purpose of the lesson and the importance of the content prior to independent practice.
What is a mini-lesson?
This content-rich writing program uses primary sources to address the Social Studies and literacy standards in grades 5-12.
What is document-based query (DBQ)?
This primary resource for reading intervention is aligned to tier one and reinforces phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, word awareness, high-frequency words and sentence composition.
What is Fun In Focus (Fundations)?
This ESL tool highlights what language learners can do at various stages of language development- it's the guiding principle in how we approach all ELLs.
What are WIDA Can-do Descriptors?
The 10-minute guided writing instructional practice in early childhood classrooms
What is Message Time Plus?