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Friday, May 15th

5/18/2015

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On Friday, May 15 our teachers spent time together preparing for the end of this school year and planning for next fall.  A lot of careful thought and planning goes into making class lists each spring for the following year.  Classroom teachers collaborate with specials teachers, service providers and admin and look at students through myriad lenses to determine placement.  Some of the many things considered are: academic needs, student/teacher style fit, siblings, social/emotional needs, gender, additional services (speech, intervention, sped, gt, etc).  Much of our Friday PLC time this week was spent doing this important work; we want to set up all our students for success in 2015-16!  We are following a new protocol for class lists this year.  If you have a concern about class lists, direct it to Principal Lea – not the current classroom teacher.   These decisions are made by teams, not individuals, so please help us by following this protocol. 

In addition, DPS honored several of our staff members with years of service pins.  Did you know we have five teachers who have taught for Denver Public Schools 20 years or more?  Congrats to the honorees, we are lucky to have them on our staff!

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Friday, May 1st 

5/1/2015

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We spent time with Michelle Jones from PEBC last Friday synthesizing our learning about inquiry. How does incorporating inquiry based learning enhance our students’ opportunities to experience deep thinking, learning, and understanding?  How does inquiry based learning connect to our systematic instructional practices at Bill Roberts? As a staff we recognize the advantages to using an inquiry model, but many of us are still grappling with how to refine our practice. In mixed grade level and content groups we had a text based discussion around “Growing Better Inquiry Groups”, and a section from Comprehension & Collaboration Inquiry Circles in Action by Stephanie Harvey and Harvey Daniels. This section discussed how we assess and evaluate the student’s inquiry process and end results. Then, the rest of our time was spent in our own inquiry groups. Groups are in the third and fourth stages of inquiry, coalescing and going public. We’re preparing to share our learning with the staff next Friday. Learning more about inquiry has impacted how we approach a lot of our curriculum and classroom decisions, and there is still a lot to continue to ponder.

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