The First Question: What do we want all students to know and be able to do?
A group of teachers working together to answer the first Dufour question for a specific grade level or content area.
Answer: What is a PLC?
This type of assessment is used by teachers to regularly check for understanding during a lesson, helping to identify students who may need additional support.
Answer: What is a formative assessment?
The ability of teachers to adjust their instruction to meet the varied learning needs of all students in their classroom.
Answer: What is differentiation?
This is the practice of providing a challenge or a deeper level of instruction for students who have already mastered the essential learning targets.
Answer: What is enrichment or extension?
The percentage of students reaching proficiency within Tier 1 instruction.
Answer: What is 80%?
The term for a learning objective that is critical for all students to master before moving on to the next unit or grade level.
Answer: What is a learning target?
The purpose of this type of assessment is to measure a student's mastery of the content at the end of a unit or a period of instruction.
Answer: What is a summative assessment?
A collaborative team's systematic and timely response when a common formative assessment shows that a student did not master an essential standard.
Answer: What is an intervention?
A person at SV who is an excellent resource in knowledge and practices of enrichment.
Answer: Who is Amy Akers?
This is the name for the middle tier of support in an MTSS framework, which provides targeted interventions for students who are at some risk of not meeting grade-level expectations.
Answer: What is Tier 2?
This is a crucial first step in the PLC process that involves unpacking standards and determining essential learning outcomes for all students.
Answer: What is the process of creating a guaranteed and viable curriculum?
The tool we use at Southview to structure our meetings after an assessment takes place.
Answer: What is the data protocol?
A time/place at SV when all students can get drafted into smaller group learning.
Answer: What is FLEX?
This strategy shortens or eliminates redundant instruction for proficient students so they can pursue advanced content or independent projects.
Answer: What is compacted curriculum (or accelerated curriculum)?
The most intensive level of support within an MTSS framework, providing highly individualized interventions for students with significant academic or behavioral needs.
Answer: What is Tier 3?