Derek L. McCoy

This is Mr. Greene, a first year Reading teacher at West Middle School.  We’ve been having talks all year about setting up groups in rooms for special purpose, acceleration, remediation, etc. After our last talk with predictive assessment data, this is the room set up he came up with address the different student needs.We’ve been planning on […]

Below is an awesome PLN success story! I writing this as a means of encouragement for the teachers in my building [and yours] who haven’t yet bought into structuring up their PLN!    Our district is planning on implementing the research based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction that Works. Building a common language around proven strategies is going to make […]

We talk a great deal about designing learning activities that really engage kids and teach real world skills they will as 21st citizens. This video gives a great visualization of project based learning! The Buck Institute gave great real life examples of needs and implementations of PBL. Some things we need to keep in mind as educators: […]

The following was part of our faculty meeting on 12.8.10. Our school was gifted with a set of books, ‘Listen Up, Teacher!’ I’d been toiling with what would make a great first book for a book study and this turned out to be a right-on-time gift.  It’s a great, quick read written by educators using students’ […]