Instructional Model

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Vertical Team Teaching and Learning K-5ELA
Focus of Learning

• Instructional Model
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• MGES 2013-2014

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• Meadow Glen Elementary Schools Vision
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• As Meadow Glen Explorers, our vision is to see,
  hear, and experience life from various angles
  allowing us a limitless future as we explore the
  world.

Home of the Explorers
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• Meadow Glen Elementary Vertical Team Defined
• An expert team of teachers who collaborate to
  plan, develop, and implement vertical units of
  study with assessments that define student
  learning based on readiness and mastery rather
  than age or grade level.

Home of the Explorers
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Organization
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Meadow Glen Elementary Vertical Team
Hope Mefford

• Aubrey Catone
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Amy White

• Carol Beckwith

Tammy Sharpe
Deni Titcomb
Ashley Scott
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• Meadow Glen Elementary Vertical Team Planning
• Collaborate weekly
• Develop
• Standards based units of study with ELA focus
• Standards based mastery and reporting to parents
• Interim Progress Reports
• Nine Weeks reporting

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Common Core State Standards Progression of
Learning Example
Grade K - With prompting and support, ask and
answer questions about key details in a
text. Grade 1 - Ask and answer questions about
key details in a text. Grade 2 - Ask and answer
such questions as who, what, where, when, why,
and how to demonstrate understanding of key
details in a text. Grade 3 - Ask and answer
questions to demonstrate understanding of a text,
referring explicitly to the text as the basis for
the answers. Grade 4 - Refer to details and
examples in a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from
the text. Grade 5 - Quote accurately from a text
when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
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Progression of learning

• Teachers will analyze data to inform instruction,
  monitor progress, and evaluate the effectiveness
  of the program.
• MAP, Dominie, DIBELS Next, PASS, Personalized
  Data Notebooks
• Students will be assessed based on established
  learning targets. (Standards based
  learning/assessments)
• Students will monitor individual progress and
  articulate learning goals through personalized
  data notebooks. (Student Reflection)
• Students will move within the vertical team based
  on their learning needs and readiness of Common
  Core State Standards. (Above grade level
  learners 5thgraders ready for 6th grade learning
  targets)

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Family Commitment

• Trust
• Risk taker
• Commitment
• Year long process
• K- 5 commitment
• Team building

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Student identification

• Parents will have the opportunity to sign-up for
  Vertical Team Instructional Model. There will be
  12 student slots for parents to enroll their
  child.
• 12 student slots will be identified by teachers,
  educational needs, and administration.
  Administration will use various data to determine
  eligibility. (Kindergarten Survey, ESOL, Speech,
  etc.)

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Registration

• Parents will have the opportunity to sign-up for
  Vertical Team Instructional Model. There will be
  12 student slots for parents to enroll their
  child.
• Online registration will begin on June 3, 2013 at
  1200 noon. Registration will end June 7, 2013 at
  500 PM. It will be date and time stamped.
• A phone message will be sent and a post on the
  website as a reminder.
• Waiting List
• Withdrawal process

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Other facts based on your questions

• The Vertical grade level is an instructional
  model not a program.
• All classrooms will follow curriculum adopted by
  the district.
• Common Core State standards will be used in all
  classrooms.
• Special Education (Resource, Speech) will be
  served on the vertical grade level.
• English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) will
  be served on the vertical grade level.
• Students with reading and math interventions
  (RTI) will be served on the vertical grade level.
• Mandarin/Partial Immersion students will not
  participate in the vertical grade level.
• Activities will be planned to help students
  understand the purpose of progression through the
  standards. (moving up and down in the learning
  progression)
• Activities will be planned to teach students how
  to work in a multi-age environment.
• Students will come to understand how to monitor
  individual progress and articulate learning goals
  through personalized data notebooks.