Thirty Years Well Spent, The Kenny Bell Story
In 1992, a young teacher walked onto the Dessie Scott campus in Pine Ridge and started what would become one of the most quietly influential
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Dominique Messer
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Read MoreThe “Mystery” of Student EngagementThe “Mystery of Student Engagement” utilizes the Deeper Learning Tool From Puzzles to Paradoxes to increase Student Engagement within the ELA Classroom. At the beginning of the year, students reported rarely experiencing engaging lessons during...
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Sandy Merrill
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Read MoreBecause Cooperative Learning Means Deeper Learning When analyzing the data from the beginning of the year Measures of Academic Progress assessment I noticed that sixty-three percent of students are performing below grade level benchmark. As I desegregated the data a...
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Jay Marson
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Read MoreReading for meaning (World Civilization sources analysis) For my action research plan I chose to use the reading for meaning tool. The tool focuses on helping students break down excerpts by utilizing claims and counterclaims. The various claims are meant...
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Loretta McKenzie
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Read More4-2-1 Summarize My action research project is based on the tool “4-2-1 Summarize.” My students were having trouble summarizing texts. They wanted to include every minute detail in their summaries, making them as long as the text itself. Summaries are...
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