As a former classroom teacher, I have done my share of story retells using story mountains, graphic organizers and more. One story I read every year when I taught 3rd grade was Kevin Henke’s book A Weekend with Windell. It is a story about a young mouse that visits a friend’s house for the weekend. […]
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Coaching in Schools: Using Data to Clearly Communicate Your Work to Others
If you are an instructional coach, technology coach or data coach in a school or district, the following scenario might sound familiar to you. In my role as a technology & innovation specialist I am the point person for 28 classroom teachers, 22 instructional assistants and 630 second grade and third grade students. In addition […]
Lency’s Scrunchies: Practicing Data with Kids – Distance Learning
I was trying to think of a way to show my children some of the types of things I work on. They know I read books about graphs and use spreadsheets a lot. Other than that, they don’t know too much. We had some time, so I decided to get my 13 year-old daughter, who hates math, involved […]
Beginning of the Year: Grade Level Demographics Data
We collect data on all this information. However, it is accessible to the people that want it or need it? What can we do to visualize this information so it is easily communicated at the right time to the right audience?