The DSC Way
1 day 5 hours ago
from Samantha Johnson
Chicago, here we come!
Administrators, literacy leaders, and school leadership teams are invited to join us to think about transforming instruction in the age of Common Core. The Innovation in Education Conference will provide you with outstanding content about planning and teaching what matters.
At the conference, you will:
Make an inspired plan...
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2 days 29 min ago
from Peter Brunn
This week the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals and DSC partnered to put on a mini-conference on leading learing communities. I gave the keynote sessons. Sue Wilder, Isabel McLean, and Linda Rourke did small group sessions, and we had a panel of school leaders close our day by sharing their experiences working with us on lesson...
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2 days 5 hours ago
from Gina Zugelder
Astatula Elementary School is in their second year of implementation of the SIPPS program. They selected SIPPS to support their most struggling readers in 1st through 5th grade during their intervention block.
The Astatula teachers that provide the SIPPS instruction share some of their “implementation stories”…
I...
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3 days 3 hours ago
from Megan Green
A program can only be as a good as the person facilitating it with the children. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) does such a great job of outlining the important skills and qualities of a successful leader as well as the importance of training and use of volunteers. These learnings are specific to AfterSchool KidzLit, but certainly...
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3 days 20 hours ago
from Isabel McLean
"Sometimes the value in partner work is NOT what students hear their partner say, but what they say themselves," said Lindsey, a third-grade teacher participating in a workshop I participated in the other day. Ann Leon was leading the modified lesson study experience around a Being a Writer lesson. The students were writing fiction and...
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1 week 5 hours ago
from Ann Marie Corgi...
If this were a blog about what I think, you wouldn’t even have to guess what I’d say about partnerships. You already know. Partnerships are great. They work. They enhance the learning and the thinking and the social development in my classroom. They’re awesome. They rock. I’m the teacher, and I’m supposed to say that...
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1 week 1 day ago
from Ann H. Leon
Thoughtful teachers routinely monitor the progress of their students. So it’s always a concern when we observe students not “moving” when we use a systematic and explicit system such as SIPPS to teach them to read. To address this concern, I usually ask myself a few questions, and I’ll include some reasons so you know my...
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1 week 1 day ago
from Peter Brunn
I was on Facebook today and ran across a post by an old friend. I knew once I read it that I needed to share it here. Finnie is somone I have known since we were young soldiers together. He is now a professor at the University of New Mexico, and someone whose thinking I hold in the deepest regard. In his post Finnie writes as a parent who is...
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1 week 2 days ago
from Patrick Graham
When we last checked in with Forrest Elementary, the school had completed a couple of months of Being a Writer™ instruction in every grade from kindergarten through sixth. The writing instruction has progressed even better than we had hoped!
First grade teacher Christine Dreele is finding that her students are able to come up with...
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1 week 4 days ago
from Katy Cortelyou
We are in our second year of SIPPS® implementation as part of our daily first grade intervention model. While my brain is overflowing with reflections on student progress, implementation progress, celebrations, and frustrations, I pause to wonder, “what do my kids think about all of this?” After all, they are the reason that we...
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