7 Habits of Success
Habit #1 reminds students to arrive prepared and punctual.
What is Be on Time?
Students should have a clear lesson objective aligned to standards.
What is Teach at Grade Level?
This Great 8 strategy requires teachers to quickly begin teaching the lesson objective after bell work.
What is "Get to the Objective"?
This campus initiative emphasizes a High Performance Culture, Quality Instruction, Accountability, and Growth.
What is "A+ Mindset, A+ School"
The professional, polished, and school-appropriate attire teachers are expected to wear daily aside from school spirit days and Fridays.
What is business casual?
This habit encourages positive interactions with everyone on campus.
What is Be Respectful to All?
Answer: Teachers internalize the DOL and anticipate misconceptions before teaching.
What is Teach to the DOL?
This strategy gives students multiple chances to practice a skill.
What is Provide Multiple Opportunities (At Bats)?
This student population makes up the largest enrollment group on campus.
What is Hispanic students (401 students)?
Answer: This communication platform serves as the official silent communication method for non-urgent daily staff communications and operates Monday through Friday.
What is Microsoft Teams?
This habit means owning your choices and actions.
What is Take Responsibility for Your Actions?
Answer: Teachers provide these to show students what success looks like.
What are Exemplars?
This Great 8 strategy encourages students to discuss their thinking with a partner.
What is Pair and Share?
Students organize, explain, justify, analyze, and defend thinking during this instructional phase.
What is Guided Practice? (We Do)
This mandatory weekly instructional rehearsal occurs every Thursday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. and requires participants to deliver lesson components exactly as they would in a live classroom.
What is Demo Day?
This habit encourages students to keep going even when learning is difficult.
What is Persevere to the End?
Teachers use visuals, sentence stems, and gestures to support student understanding.
What are Scaffolds?
These 8 instructional moves are practiced in addition to the Great 8 to provide HQI.
What is the Sweet 16? (The Next 8)
This phase includes teacher modeling their thinking and introduces aligned to the lesson objective and success criteria.
What is Direct Teach? (I do)
This collaborative planning structure occurs every Tuesday during planning time, and teachers are also expected to meet weekly with their instructional coach.
What are Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)?
This habit pushes students to continually grow and improve.
What is Strive for Self Improvement
The teacher changes instruction based on student performance data collected during the lesson.
What is Monitor and Adjust?
This Great 8 strategy focuses on maintaining urgency and minimizing downtime.
What is Pick Up the Pace?
This daily assessment informs teacher moves in the second teach for grade 3-5th and provides students to demonstrate their learning from the lesson.
What is the DOL?
Teachers are required to pick up students by this time each morning, and instruction begins at this time with students seated and ready to learn.
What is 7:45am?