1. Innovate. Engage. Empower Where do we grow from here?

2. Innovate. Engage. Empower StudentsTeachers Building the Reading Community Retelling Making Connections/Using Schema Visualizing Wondering/Questioning Making Inferences Create structures and routines for student-centered learning Address vocab within context of read aloud Model strategy when needed Ask open ended questions Use cooperative structures routinely Maintain a neutral stance

3. Innovate. Engage. Empower “Our job as teachers is to force the strategy until it becomes automatic”

4. Innovate. Engage. Empower Where do we grow from here?

5. Innovate. Engage. Empower

6. Listening for Understanding…

7. Innovate. Engage. Empower Listening Look directly at the student who is talking Minimize distractions Sit forward in your seat Listen closely Explore and discuss the ways students come to their conclusions Take notes

8. Innovate. Engage. Empower What do you visualize Mattie looks like? Student: “I visualize the beak being this big (uses hand gesture) and that the bird is HUGE.” Teacher: “What in the text made you think that?” Student “…so enormous it is that it weighs as much as the whole body” Teacher. “Tell me more.” Student.” If the beak is as big as the body it has to be pretty big.

9. Innovate. Engage. Empower What do you visualize Mattie looks like? Teacher. ”What in the text made you think the bird was big and not really small?” Student: “…her wings sounded like a steam shovel puffing away” “Steam shovels are not small, they are big.

10. Innovate. Engage. Empower What do you visualize Mattie looks like? Student: “I think her beak has these pointy things that shoot off of it” Teacher: “What in the text made you think that?” Student: “It said her bump looked like a thorn.” Teacher: “Let me reread that part.. …her bump looked just like a small horn. When I reread the text, does it change what you visualize?”

11. Innovate. Engage. Empower “Our job as teachers is to force the strategy until it becomes automatic”

12. Innovate. Engage. Empower Listening Look directly at the student who is talking Minimize distractions Sit forward in your seat Listen closely Explore and discuss the ways students come to their conclusions Take notes

13. Innovate. Engage. Empower Taking Notes 5 -I listen, I write it down, and I know what to do with it 3 -I listen, I write it down, and I have NO idea what to do with it. 1 -I listen, I don’t write it down because I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. or I don’t need to write it down because I know.

14. Innovate. Engage. Empower It takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery

15. Innovate. Engage. Empower Taking Notes 5 -I listen, I write it down, and I know what to do with it 3 -I listen, I write it down, and I have NO idea what to do with it. 1 -I listen, I don’t write it down because I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. or I don’t need to write it down because I know.

16. Innovate. Engage. Empower Why note taking is essential to the work of the collaborative classroom… Patterns Patterns drive instruction for next day Goals Keep goals in front of you-the notes you take depend on what you want to know Creating a habit of kid watching If kids aren’t using the language of the strategy, they don’t have the strategy deep enough yet

17. Innovate. Engage. Empower “Our job as teachers is to force the strategy until it becomes automatic”

18. Innovate. Engage. Empower Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. -Margaret Wheatley

19. Innovate. Engage. Empower Upcoming Events Option 1: Research in Action day at P.K. Yonge on January 13. Option 2:Two days of in-county visits. Your teacher would see four other model classrooms