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 * Check all that apply............. || My students will read and work with texts...................................................................................................................... || Literacy ||
 * || My students will engage in research (locating, evaluating, and/or synthesizing information from multiple sources). ||  ||
 * || My students will write to learn (journals, exit slips, KWL chart, cluster map, Venn diagram, etc.). ||  ||
 * || My students will write to publish (blog post, paragraph, essay, brochure, lab report, etc.). ||  ||
 * || My students will articulate ideas in speaking, writing, and/or digitally. || Communication Skills ||
 * || My students will present ideas in speaking, writing, and/or digitally. ||  ||
 * || My students will listen to another person to empathize with and understand his or her point of view. ||  ||
 * || My students will evaluate a speaker’s ideas and reasoning. ||  ||
 * || I will engage students in a teacher-led discussion. ||  ||
 * || Students will discuss ideas/information one-on-one (pair-and-share…) face-to-face and/or online. || Collaboration ||
 * || Students will discuss ideas/information in small groups face-to-face and/or online. ||  ||
 * || Students will work in teams to create original works. ||  ||
 * || Students will analyze (study closely, break into different components) texts, images, data, and/or ideas. || Higher Level Thinking ||
 * || Students will evaluate (assess, judge or critique) texts, images, data, and/or ideas. ||  ||
 * || Students will create presentations, products, and/or original works. ||  ||
 * || I will provide opportunities for students to become self-starters—to take initiative. || Habits of Mind ||
 * || I will provide opportunities for students to demonstrate persistence/perverance—to stick with a task until it is completed, to stick with a longer term problem to overcome obstacles and find solutions. ||  ||
 * || I will provide opportunities for students to be self-reliant—to be responsible and complete tasks independently. ||  ||
 * || I will provide opportunities for all students to be risk-takers—to experiment, to try and fail, to explore alternative solutions. ||  ||
 * || ‍‍I will provide opport ‍‍unities for students to be metacognitive—to reflect on their learning. ||  ||

I'd like to see the language continue to be about the students' behaviors and the activities in which they will participate. R I notice that several of the characteristics that we identified are not addressed in this document, as well. R This is excellent work, kids. I'm enjoying reading your comments. R

After attending 2 days of CCSS for mathematics with Dr. Linda Griffith and Amy Evans (project coordinators for the CCSS mathematics for Arkansasa) I feel we should include the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practices. Dr. Griffith shared with everyone that if we could only do two things next year to move toward CCSS in Math we should incorporate and develop a greater understanding of these 8 standards. They are: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments & critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with Mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. These are listed in detail on pages 6-8 of the CCSS math guide. Teachers will have different interpretations of these. We need to have discussions about these and what they mean. We may also need to reword some of the strategies already listed to better benefit the elementary teachers. Thanks, Sonya

Aren't these specific to math? Wouldn't we already address these in our core standards? Just a thought for discussion. Kara

This is outstanding work, everyone, but I keep coming back to the question of "How?" How will students demonstrate that they can empathize with another person and understand his or her point of view? How can students demonstrate that they can analyze texts, images, data, and/or ideas? How can students demonstrate that they are self-reliant? The list goes on. R

In response to R's comment - Could we add a "cheat sheet" giving examples of the "how" for each category? Or is that too much?

Commenting on the "how?", could we use running records? RR are one of the tools the elementary teachers are planning to use with the new common core as ongoing documentation. Maybe that could work as the "cheat sheet"?

I have returned to this wiki as part of the PD on 8/6. Is anyone still lurking out there?