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Best Practices – Playaways
This is a great best practice implemented in a 7th grade reading class.As a former reading teacher, I was always cognizant of my reading to a class. Specifically, I was leary about always reading to the class because I didn’t want their internal reading voice to be my voice and I wanted them to hear […]
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Effective Approach to School Social Media Management
Last week, our school made the decision to ‘relaunch’ our committees. From the beginning, we’ve recognized the vital role our different committees play to our school’s operations and morale. In a creative faculty meeting/pd session we used Google Docs to sign up for committees and schedule our meetings – it was operational, educational and fun! […]
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Shift and Reflection
Our @edfocus group wrapped up our book share on John Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction Wednesday night. I always enjoy our discussions and this one did not disappoint [@MrBernia gives some great insight into the book]. I’m appreciative of the discussions and challenging viewpoints of the group. Its these kinds of experiences and on-going pd […]
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A New Parent Night
West Middle School is a special place. We are working hard at making our new vision statement, ‘West Middle School will prepare globally competitive students for lifelong learning’, a reality that is evident to all of our stakeholders. Last week we had our first curriculum night of the year. From school’s beginning, we have […]
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The Real World
We are always for the best ways we can serve our kids. This week we had our first Parent/Teacher conference night of the year and it generated a lot of conversation about best practices, particularly teaching and grading policies. These conversations came from a variety of sources and were generated by both sides, educators and […]
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Parent Walk
I always mention in my call outs that ‘West Middle School is a special place’. I want the community [and the world] to know that we are a faculty and staff committed to making a difference in the lives of our students and students’ families. It is my goal to change the statement “West Middle […]
Derek L. McCoy 