Friday, December 12th

Today during PLC, after some wonderful share outs for the amazing things our kids and staff are doing at Bill Roberts, we began important grade level and content team work revolving around the recent Benchmark tests.  Teachers grouped up to work on identifying examples that met the range of scores on writing rubrics, graded student answers for both Literacy and Mathematics questions, and discussed student skill level acquisition.  We worked as a whole staff to help support each other in both cross-content and vertical grade levels.  Teachers analyzed skills that students overall knew versus skills students struggled with at this stage of the year.  Next week after all the tests have been scored and scanned into the system, teachers will analyze the data in order to make best instructional strategies and groupings for kids when they return from break.  Using data to drive our instruction is an important part of differentiating the instruction to meet the needs of our wide range of learners.