Data Walls Spark great DIscussions!

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Thank you all for engaging in the work around data walls. The tool that Lissy shared with you has already sparked great conversation regarding what teams consider to be a four and how they are grading. If we realize we weren't perfectly aligned on things, that is a celebration! Now we know and can figure it out. If we never look at our assessments together in this way, then we never know. The end goal is not to be perfect, it is to see how we can get better at serving students every day. I have heard some really important work being done, just by us choosing one assessment to analyze. My goal is for us to be able to do this work with all assessments. We are taking it one step at a time, but consider looking at another assessment using the data wall tool . This fits within the structure of our PLT as analyzing data from assessments. We are plugging away and getting better and better at using our PLTs to move students to that next level. Our focus hasn't wavered, even during a pandemic. Thank you for that. You truly are Rock Stars.

Feel free to comment below on how your team used their data wall tool and/ or what you got out of it.

I want to thank our Tweeters in the group for the wonderful pictures that you are taking capturing kids playing in the snow and you in remote learning. Thanks to Lissy for the Green Hope Tweets!

Who is this cutie pie??😇

She wears it so well!

More cuteness overload! You're welcome!

Upcoming Events:

Monday February 1st

Who doesn't love a good Monday?😊

Tuesday February 2nd -

SIP 8:00 am (meeting in our committees)

12:00-1:00 Materials Pick Up (SSA, T-Z, Leander, and Ahrens)

Wednesday February 3rd

Asynchronous Day

Materials Pick- Up

12:00-12:45- k/1st

12:45-1:30- 2nd/ 3rd

1:30-2:15- 4th/ 5th

Thursday February 4th

National Homemade soup day!

Friday February 5th

Falcon Friday!

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