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8 things skilled teachers think, say, do... with reference to intelligence mindset Another good article to jigsaw (?) perhaps at a curriculum meeting

There are many components to the teacher evaluation systems that are being implemented across twenty-six states. I want to take a moment to talk about one of the key components, and it's a biggie - student growth. Many educators are intimidated by the idea of showing student growth in the classroom.

Have you ever thought about how silly we teachers can be? When we get in front of students, we present ourselves to be the ones with all the answers, and then after we talk to the students, we start asking questions as if we don't know anything we just talked about.

One example of how questions can be asked of teachers...something to think about and use as Anne and I develop a coaching feedback survey. A great way to model the risking-taking part of gathering feedback to improve instruction!

It seems to me that most of these roles apply to us. With our feedback from the surveymonkey, we can think about which of these roles we need to improve upon or diminish as we plan for next year.

From the general diigo website (most popular articles) This is a visual of the 27 ways to increase student achievement- a poster for classrooms, perhaps, to remind teachers how to make sure the students are "doing the doing"

10 minute video that shows risk taking and brain based learning

A short article that might help/reinforce what we do as we move forward with changing curriculum

Scale City offers middle school students and teachers short videos, online interactives, lesson plans, handouts, and assessments focused on the mathematics of scale and scaling.