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MSM-96-NMSA09_Wrap_Up_1
Category: Education
Duration: 00:56:38
Publish Date: 2009-11-14 18:08:28
Description: Shawn & Troy discuss their first sessions at NMSA09. Advisory: 2 Truths & a lie – have students make 3 statements: 2 are true, 1 is a lie. Section the room into thirds. Have the other students move to one of sections that they think is the lie. On Our Mind: Shout out to March Wells III: Thanks for being on the podcast with us! Shout out to our NMSA traveling buddies: Jennifer Fryzel, Andrea Melaragni, Nancy Kiefer, Kathy MacDonald, March Wells III, Fran Delaney, Vickie Molnar! Shout out to Dr. M. Monte Tatom and Susie Highley for saying, “HI!”, at the NMSA conference. Webspotlight: Breakthrough Learning Conference: https://sites.google.com/site/breakthroughforum/home Triand: Trusted by thousands, Triand is the national, state-standards based, social teaching tool. Find resources, share lesson plans, create tests, view reports, make teaching fun. http://my.triand.com/ NMSA09: Session 1- 10 ways to scaffold super summaries across the curriculum. Dr. Lori G. Wilfong Kent State Unversity Shawn’s Session 1: Dr. Robert Balfanz on Why Middle Grades Matter! Why Middle Grades Matter Finding 1 half or more of eventual dropouts can fall off the path to graduation in the middle grades. Asked how early in the middle grades could we identify students who, without intervention, likely would not graduate. Wanted reliable and valid inidcators Collectively wanted the indicators to produce a high yield of future non-graduates. Four sixth grade indicators emerged 1. Attending less than 80% of the time. 2. Receiving a poor final behavior grade in a core course. 3. Failing Mth. 4. Failing English. Sixth graders with any one of this indicators had 25% or lower graduation rates. Colectively indicators identified 40% of all dropouts.
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