May 10, 2013

Learning By Doing in 2012-2013

As we look to close out the last two weeks of the 2012-2013 school year, it’s a great time to reflect on our journey as a professional learning community. For many of us this was a year of tremendous professional growth and exploration. Earlier this week we asked our staff the following question: What is your greatest professional take-away from this school year? Below are the responses from our staff.


  • Technology is key to getting our students involved.

  • Being a part of the 21st Century Cohort.

  • I agree, being a part of the 21st Century Cohort has been highly beneficial.

  • Using standards-based grading and moving to a more authentic form of grading.

  • The support for STEM in our district, and the willingness to help our students grow with technology.

  • Development of a new curriculum.

  • TWITTER

  • Implementation of more technology.

  • Ditto on Twitter, great PD resource!

  • Development and use of quality scoring rubrics.

  • Developing our Common Core curriculum.

  • Double-looped learning...embrace new technology to serve a variety of purposes!

  • Combining Common Core, a digital curriculum, and Standards-Based Grading into my math classroom.

  • Having students use technology in the classroom for project based learning.

  • Aligning our curriculum with the standards-based grading rubrics to provide students with reflection and growth opportunities.

  • The understanding of standards-based grading.

  • 21st century learning group.