Maryland Report Card
The Halls of Argyle
ILT Silliness
Science of Learning
Middle School Curriculum
100

Argyle earned 9.9 out of 10 points in this category of the state report card.

What is Access to a Well-Rounded Curriculum?

100

This room is has the most assigned staff of any room at Argyle.

What is the Community Suite?

100

This kitchen utensil sparked a heated debate during ILT.

What is an ice cream scoop?

100

This is the process of connecting new information to a pre-existing schema.

What is encoding?

100

This process allows plants to use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen?

What is photosynthesis?

200

Argyle earned 2.5 out of 10 points in this category on the report card.

What is Progress Toward English Language Proficiency?

200

Most rooms on the first floor are sequential, however there's an awkward break after this room.

What is Room 111?

200

ILT members secretly submitted these, which were played for the group during summer ILT.

What are walk-up songs.

200

This is the process of accessing new information, often through practice.

What is retrieval?

200

This ancient civilization built the famous Machu Picchu complex high in the Andes Mountains.

Who are the Inca?

300

This indicator is a combination of the percent of students scoring “proficient” or higher on state tests in math and English language arts, and the average performance level of students on state tests.

What is Academic Achievement?

300

If it's hot outside, don't worry, it's probably cold in one of these two rooms!

What are 106 and 206?

300

James often blamed this for times when ILT members questioned what he said.

What is his Haitian accent?

300

Our brains have a limit to how much information can be processed here.

What is working memory?

300

This literary term describes giving human characteristics to non-human things, like animals or objects.

What is personification?

400

In the category of Academic Progress, this measure scored the highest points.

What is Student Growth Percentile English Language Arts?

400

The halls of Argyle wrap in circles, a remnant of this original design type.

What is an open school?

400

During ILT Grudge Ball, this team name caused a stir.

What is Naked Dance Party?

400

Planning practices should include this, which is an opportunity for students to do the work of learning.

What is effortful thinking?

400

This theorem states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

500

Staff enjoyed this treat as they celebrated earning a third star on the report card.

What are mini cupcakes?

500

Legend has it that this amenity is located on the roof, however kids aren't allowed to use it.

What is the pool?

500

This phrase, though violent sounding, was often used when two ILT members had different ideas.

What is 'Shots Fired'?

500

The classroom environment and planning practices directly impact this, which is needed for students to use their working memory.

What is attention.

500

This system translates human-readable website names (like www.wikipedia.org) into numerical IP addresses that computers use to find each other.

What is DNS (Domain Name System)?