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YEAr 3: book club session 2

10/28/2014

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Chapter 3 of Intellectual Character proved to be a challenging text full of theory.  Author Ron Ritchhart made connections to the past research of Dewey, Covey, and others.  Using a visual reflection routine explained in Chapter 7 of Making Thinking Visible, Book Club facilitator Nick Klak allowed our book study participants to gain a greater understanding by using visualization.  Each participant created a picture of what the text meant to them. 
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YEAR 3: connecting with parents

10/21/2014

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Are you practicing a fixed mindset or a growth mindset?

This year Reuther is working to bring parents into our Culture of Thinking through the use of Ron Ritchhart’s 9 Apps for Parents.  Each month a new app is showcased in our front lobby and on our school website.  As parents enter the building, they can read about the monthly app, and then access articles or more information pertaining to the app on the website.  The first app was Developing a Growth Mindset.  This was a great app to start with because some students in the building are learning about developing a growth mindset in their classes.  


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It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.             
 - Carol Dweck, Mindset
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YEAR 3: Think Tanks continue 

10/16/2014

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Think Tanks provide staff with the opportunity to grow the Culture of Thinking conversation.  This year the staff will focus on the 8 Cultural Forces during the first half each Think Tank Thursday session.  One classroom video from the DVD in the Making Thinking Visible book will be viewed at each session followed by the Connect-Extend-Challenge routine. Much can be learned about how the 8 Cultural Forces work simultaneously in a classroom, as well as how listening to the thinking of younger students can motivate us to get even more out our own middle school students. Staff will still have an opportunity, as they did last year, to use the last half of the Think Tank as a lesson "design studio".  


Today's Video:  5th Grade Humanities Classroom (See-Think-Wonder combined with a Sentence-Phrase-Word)



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YEAR 3: Routines in action

10/13/2014

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Special thanks to our staff presenters:

Amy Hoekstra
Natalie James
Rachel Mainero
Shelley Moore
Nick Ontiveros

Jen Steffes
The focus of our Professional Development Day was showing the 8 Cultural Forces in action as well as modeling how routines can be linked together for a more effective lesson. The presenters made a point to identify the type of thinking that they wanted their students to do and highlighted different places in their lesson where they focused on a particular cultural force. 


Staff rotated through five sessions, had follow-up discussion in their CIA teams, and then filled out an exit slip that pertained to the 8 Cultural Forces.  The evaluation of the day was exceptionally positive. 
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