PowerPoint from Sunset Park, from the Business and Entrepreneurship SLC

1. Business and Entrepreneurship Inquiry Team 2009/2010

2. Choosing Our Focus Skill: Evidence Evidence * After analyzing the Fall ELA DYO scores, the position category was the area where students scored the highest across the board. *We noticed that students in the Business Community struggled with using evidence to support their ideas. - Approximately 50% of students scored below a 3 in the evidence category. *We discussed using this focus skill to transform our questioning, writing assignments, and daily tasks in all subjects.

4. Connecting What We Learned in PD to Our Strategies On February 1, 2010 we had a PD on Differentiation and Assessment for Learning. We decided to implement the strategy of illustrating the text using: graphic organizers, sketch & stretch, and drawing to think.

8. Student draws and labels ingredients (Spanish)

9. KWL for Math

10. Drawing, Sequencing, and Labeling for Science

11. Drawing Pivotal Moments for Short Story “Sketch and Stretch”(ELA)

12. Our Goals for the Future

13. What should we aspire to next year? Compare the students work now with their future work—to analyze progress. Work on self-reflection with students so they can decide what best strategies work for them and improve their writing. Standardize our expectations of their writing so we teach the same techniques in each class. Help students apply all the skills/strategies we’ve given them on their own. Promote independent and sustained meta text writing.