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    • Moving Learning Forward 2015 Conference
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Year 3: Book Talk

3/24/2015

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Year 3: Science Collaboration Project Concludes

3/20/2015

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Year 3: Think Tank Thursday

3/12/2015

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Today we explored the first chapter of Ron Ritchhart’s new book Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools. This chapter presents three stories of education: the old story, the current story, and crafting a different story. Staff members read and discussed the latter two stories of education and recorded their thinking with a 4C’s routine.  Some of the 4C’s discussed were learning in collaboration instead of isolation, seeing past educational barriers, and engaging students with their thinking and that of others. Staff members also watched Bring on the Learning Revolution by Sir Ken Robinson and discussed ways to craft a different learning story in their own classrooms.  

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Year 3: A Closer Look at the 8 Cultural Forces

3/3/2015

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Zooming in 

Today's afternoon PD session included three opportunities to grow the conversation regarding the 8 Cultural Forces in our classrooms:
  • Analyzing ROUTINES using the Student Thinking Continuum
  • ENVIRONMENT and INTERACTION Models
  • Whole Pie (ALL 8 CULTURAL FORCES) Exploration
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We appreciate the invitation to join the Reuther staff today for an awesome staff meeting. We truly enjoyed it and are blown away by the obvious dedication the Reuther staff has to provide the very best learning environment possible for your students. The discussion was about the environment being the 3rd teacher in the classroom, and let me tell you, the learning environment  in the staff meeting and in the building promotes thinking and learning.

After being there today, now I realize why Reuther sends us such awesome kids!

               -  Pasquale Cusumano
 RHS Asst Principal

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