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How often do you communicate with students’ families about their academic progress?

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Since coming back from winter break, we have had 4 inclement weather days!! Thankfully, my district hasn’t selected to have students involved in virtual learning, but I suspect we will if we have more days. What kind of activities do you provide your students during remote learning days? Do you have an LMS in your district? What grade levels would you say use it at school?

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What are some of your favorite activities using primary source documents for upper elementary?


Does anyone have any tips on tracking all of the common core standards for each individual student in class? (When I used to teach SPED I got the impression that some of my general ed peers were just estimating scores and not using any actual data for a few of the standards. I imagine it can be overwhelming when you have so many students in gen ed but surely someone has come up with some ways to make the process easier and more efficient?)


Our intervention team uses the approach of Remind, Redirect, Return-this for students that are being disrespectful and/or not participating etc How do you address student behavior so that it gives them choice/s yet doesn’t interfere with the learning opportunities for other students in small groups?


I am wondering how other educators are able to help students recognize or (better) understand common literacy tasks, such as syllable division, first sound fluency, rhyming, etc – students often will just start doing one of these routine “behaviors” … without truly understanding what’s expected of them.

