Showcasing Your Best: Strategies for Using the MCPAI-R Evelyn Bussell Douglas Elementary, Wake County Gerry Solomon NCDPI

Show me… and I will understand.

Documenting Instruction/Collaboration Set up a color-coded folder for each class in a posting tub or hanging file rack. –Keep files next to your plan book for quick access –Take files to collaboration meetings

Documenting Instruction/Collaboration –Record activities and dates for each class or group –Include unit/lesson plans, worksheets, teacher hand-outs, notes etc. in the class files –Reuse the files each year, adding new record sheets

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Learners use skills, resources, & tools to: inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Learners use skills, resources, & tools to: share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society. pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

How Can You Use What You Collect? To develop awareness –Principal –Yourself To demonstrate growth/improvement To share successes To make a case for needs To compile for a career portfolio What else???

Seize the Opportunity! Now…more than ever before.

Evelyn Bussell Gerry Solomon In compliance with federal law, including the provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, N C Public Schools administers all state-operated educational programs, employment activities and admissions without discrimination because of race, religion, national or ethnic origin, color, age, military service, disability, or gender, except where exemption is appropriate and allowed by law.