Advisory - What is going well? What do we need to improve? What is one activity that your class enjoyed during advisory? How have you built a connection with your students?

Where are you in the WOLF PACK?

Please take a look at the attached Wolf Pack article.

Reflecting on this year and looking forward to next school year 2017 -18.

What have you learned this year that you can apply for next year? How can we bring out the best academic performance in our students? Who have you benefited from collaborating with this year?  How do you access your students' academic work? How frequently? Do you post their grades? How frequently do you update their posted grades? When and how do we reteach content?  

UCLA Writing Project

YOKA / UCLA Writing Project Partnership 2016-2017

Spring Reflection Questions

Directions: Please take a moment and respond to these two sets of questions. Please upload this to your YOKA blog when finished. If you have a picture that goes along with it, all the better!

Grounding: Thinking about your instructional sequence, professional development themes this year, and other factors influencing your classrooms...

Part 1: DATA ANALYSIS. Take a moment and look at your Fall and Spring spreadsheets based on the information from your study class.

1. What do you notice about the data, especially when comparing Fall to Spring?
2. What might this data capture or address in terms of student learning and your curricular goals?
3. What might this data not capture or address in terms of student learning and your curricular goals?
4. We suggested you use a “high” “medium” “low” rating for scoring student work unless you wanted to use an existing rubric that perhaps your department uses or a rubric from a high stakes assessment. What scoring method would you want to use next year? What would give you the most meaningful information?  Please explain.

Part 2: STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS. Take a moment and look at a student sample that you are particularly proud of, or that you think shows a need that you’d like to address with future Professional Development.  If possible, compare the sample with a sample of the student’s writing from early in the year.

1. Give a context for the writing assignment, especially given your curricular goals for the year.
2. Give a context for the student, especially given their growth,  stagnation, or decline throughout the year.
3. Describe what is present in the writing, rather than what is missing.
4. Describe what might be next instructional steps for this student.  Would these instructional steps work for many students in your class?  Please elaborate.
5. What ideas is this giving you about how we should shape professional development for next year?
6. Thinking about this PD sequence this year, what worked? What can we (UCLA Writing Project, YOKA Leadership Team, your department, and yourself) improve on for next year?  Also do you agree w/ the instructional foci identified by your peers on the google survey?  Click on the following links and scroll to the bottom for ALL RESPONSES, SOME MATH, SOME SPED.

On behalf of the YOKA Leadership Team, the UCLA Writing Project, and all of our students, Norma and Jason want to thank you all for a wonderful year full of hard work, energy, enthusiasm, inquiry, and writing!  Happy trails to you, ‘till we meet again!

Secrets to a Successful Parent Conference

What is a successful Parent/Teacher Conference?  What do you do to PREPARE for it?  What do you do DURING the conference to make it effective? 

Intervention. What are ten interventions that you do in your class when faced with challenging behavior? What is the single most important thing you do in your class to build a safe and positive classroom climate for learning?

Utilizing the Parent Conference

We all know that parents are critical in our conversations with our students.  What would be some critical elements we would need to include in any one-on-one PARENT CONFERENCE? 

What is the MOST important quality to possess as an educator? Why do you value this quality so highly?