Election Day Take Aways

Students have been tremendously vocal around this year's election.  What are some reflections that your students have shared ?  What are some of your hopes and concerns? 

Election Day Dreams

What is a DREAM that you have for your future? What would you like to DO? What would you like to ACCOMPLISH? What would you like to be when you grow up?

What is your best Middle School Memory? What is something that was a challenge for you in Middle School?

Sharing your secrets to balancing work and life outside of school.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?  How does this help you to recharge and rethink a problem or practice?  What do you like to do on your vacations?  The weekends?  Please share with us how this helps you find balance and meaning in your life. 

What is one SUCCESS and one CHALLENGE that you had this week?

Where are the 21st Century Learners?

What does a 21st Century Learner look like or sound like? Or what does 21st Century Education look like?

Students with special needs. How are we providing support?

What successful strategies have we used that help us in accommodating special need students?   What questions might we have in best supporting our students with special needs?  What would you like to learn more about?
Resources for teachers:

Sign up for free "Teaching Tolerance" instructional DVD kits with teacher's guides: 

http://www.tolerance.org/teaching-kits/order

Sign up for free "LA Times" newspapers for your students:
http://nieonline.com/latimes/order.cfm
Create a "Donors Choose" account to request funds for any of your class projects:
https://www.donorschoose.org/

 

 

Restorative Justice Circles One Month Reflection. What are you most nervous about as a facilitator? What are some challenges you have faced? What has worked well? What has surprised you?

What is your progress on "It's On Us to Change" Awareness month? What are some struggles or successes that you have had around this campaign?

Sharing our best practices

What are THREE ways that we  BUILT COMMUNITY in our classrooms this week?   What are TWO effective teaching practices we have used the first week?

Summer School Reflections

What has gone well this summer?  What have you done to engage our students?  What have been some challenges?  What lesson would you like to share with us?  What else would you like to share with us?

What Socio-emotional Supports have we created in our classrooms?

How Trauma Is Changing Children's Brains
Being mindful of the challenges that many of our students have had...what systems or supports do we create and use to create a warm and safe environment in our classroom that brings out the best in our students.

YOKA School Culture and Class Culture

What IS working overall in my class?  What do I need to WORK ON to improve? What could we do more of at YOKA to support our students even better?

FIELD TRIP REFLECTION

We have had many field trips over the past weeks.  What has gone well?  What could we improve on? What would we do differently next time? What advice could we give to our 6th grade sponsors who go later this week?

Building Empathy

Why are some of our most at-risk students acting up?  How are some of their needs not being met and what can we do to address them?  How are we building empathy with these students? Please share your insights and successful experiences with these students.

Five - Week Grading Practice Reflection

As we finish our first five weeks this Spring semester, let's reflect on two ideas around our grading practices.

1. When do we give our students "U's"? What might be some ways that we can prevent our students from getting "U's" (work habits/ cooperation)? What are some successful strategies that we have used to move our students towards "S" and "E"?
2. Reflecting on our current grades, is there any disparity between Work Habits, Cooperation, and the Letter Grade we give?

8th Grade Pinning Reflection

How did you contribute towards the Pinning Ceremony's success? Overall, what were your observations of the ceremony itself? What went well? What could be improved/ done differently for next time and/or for culmination?  

Reflecting on our Success and Looking Forward

What successes are we most satisfied with from last semester and what lesson or strategy are we looking forward to using this semester?