Balanced Literacy
The understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
When all points of view have been actively solicited and the will of the group is evident even to those who most oppose it.
What is consensus?
The summative assessment process is considered an autopsy. The formative assessment process is considered this.
What is a 'check up'?
CHAMPS will be implemented at these grade levels beginning in August 2020.
What is PK-6?
These three words summarize the District 88 Mission and Vision and are frequently used at the November Institute Days.
What are ACHIEVE, GROW, and CONTRIBUTE?
The relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
What is phonics?
This educator popularized the concept of PLCs and was a friend of Dr. Hector Garcia. Name the educator and tell what PLC stands for.
Who is Rick DuFour?
What is Professional Learning Community?
These three questions guide the formative assessment process.
What are:
1. Where am I going?
2. Where am I now?
3. What strategies can help me get to where I need to go? How do I get to where I need to go? How do I get to where I'm going?
This building wide attention signal has been and will be used at P.H. Miller.
What is 'Give Me Five'?
The three schools where Laurel Mateyka has worked in Plano CUSD 88.
What are Plano High School, Emily G. Johns Intermediate School, and P.H. Miller Elementary School?
The three components that make up the primary model of balanced literacy.
What are
1. Word Study
2. Reader's Workshop
3. Writer's Workshop
Name the four questions that guide the work of a PLC.
1. What do we expect our students to know and be able to do?
2. How will we know when they've learned it?
3. How will we respond when they do not learn?
4. How will we respond when they already know it?
Posting I-can statements and showing exemplars of student work at the various levels of performance (e.g., beginning, developing, secure) are strategies for this element of the formative assessment process.
What is Shared Learning Targets and Criteria for Success?
The letters in CHAMPS stand for this.
What are:
C--Conversation
H--Help
A--Activity
M--Movement
P--Participation
S--Success
The four Plano CUSD 88 superintendents beginning with the current and going back from there.
Who are
1. Tony Baker
2. Dr. Hector Garcia
3. Dr. Laurel Walker
4. Bill Woody
This component of Reader's Workshop has been proven to be the most important factor in children’s literacy development.
What is (daily) Read Aloud?
SMART goals guide the work of every PLC. Tell the word that is represented by each letter in the acronym SMART (based on the definition in Learning By Doing, 3rd edition).
What is:
S--Strategic or specific
M--Measurable
A--Attainable
R--Results-oriented
T--Time-bound
An appropriate strategy in this element of the formative assessment process might be using question starters.
What is Engaging Students in Asking Effective Questions?
Based on STOIC, proactive instruction should occur this percentage of the time.
What is 80%?
Prior to 2005, the District 88 Administration Office was housed at this location before it was constructed on the sight of the old Bingamon building which was demolished in 2004.
What is the Larson-Nelson Funeral home?
In balanced literacy at the primary level, these are the five components of word study.
What are
1. Concepts of print
2. Phonemic Awareness
3. Phonics
4. Vocabulary
5. Spelling
These two documents are used at the end of each semester to assess the work of the team. Name both documents.
1. Critical Issues (for Team Consideration) and
2. Products, Tasks, and Timelines
Name four (out of the six) elements of formative assessment.
What are:
1. Shared Learning Targets and Criteria for Success
2. Feedback that Feeds Forward
3. Student Goal Setting
4. Student Self-Assessment
5. Strategic Teacher Questioning
6. Engagement of Students in Asking Effective Questions
Name the five elements of STOIC and tell which element is reactive rather than proactive.
S--Structure (organize the classroom for success)
T--Teach (students how to behave responsibly in classroom)
O--Observe (student behavior and collect data)
I--Interact (positively with students; build relationships)
C--Correct (irresponsible behavior fluently; menu of options)
and what is 'C--Correct'?
She was the first female principal in Plano and she oversaw the construction of P.H. Miller in 1965.
Who is Emily G. Johns?