Leveling Up October 24 - Staff Meeting (Team Huddle) Follow-up

At our staff meeting, I introduced the concept of leveling up in terms of our skills that we can develop in order to level up to a 5-star school...

Level Up Leveling up is a concept in games in which a character experiences some sort of progression that usually entails unlocking new abilities, skills, access to new items, access to a new area of the game, or as a benchmark of how far into the game a character is.

At our first Leveling Up Team Huddle,  we considered 3 areas in which we can level-up as a staff:

1.  The Ratio of Positive to Negative Interactions within teaching whole group lessons.  I modeled how I would focus on this during a whole group lesson teaching about Active Engagement.

Action Item:  Let another staff member and/or me know if you would like me to track your ratio in your classroom for a period of time.  During the staff meeting, Laura tracked mine and I had a 24:4 ratio with you all! She also reported that I gave every teacher attention for a positive behavior except for 2. :) 

2.  Leveling Up in Active Engagement - I focused on asking/answering questions.  We classified questions according to purpose and I challenged everyone to do one of the following:

Action Item: 

1. When asking "Participatory Telling" questions, wait 3 seconds before calling on a student and then do so using some kind of random selection technique. 
2. When asking "Performance Questions" incorporate a Timed Pair Share or a Rally Robin.

3.  Minds in Motion - When can you incorporate this great resource into your day?

4.  Helping our ELLs - We received lots of ideas from Mrs. Atallah! Here is the link to the powerpoint with all the resources.