Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

Kudos to you! Don't know how anyone survives 10 years. Good for you! On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Tracy Gaestel wrote: > We were in that situation for ten very long years. It's swinging back > here, it is bound to swing back other places. Keep the Faith in what we > know is right for kid

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

We were in that situation for ten very long years. It's swinging back here, it is bound to swing back other places. Keep the Faith in what we know is right for kids! TracyOn Wed, 30 May 2012 06:38:31 -0700, Renee wrote: I, for one, am very happy to hear this and hope that it continues.

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

Wow, you are so lucky. Our district is still everyone should be on the same page. Deborah Lawson Sent from my iPad On May 30, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Renee wrote: > I, for one, am very happy to hear this and hope that it continues. Sadly, > where I substitute, they are still training all the teach

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

Same in NJ Renee - the response to any new suggestion made by teachers to improve instruction is "show me the data" As a matter of fact during a discussion about voucher legislation with one of our assemblyman, a mayor from an urban community stated if we had vouchers our test scores would go up

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

Laughlin To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Sent: Tue, May 29, 2012 9:13 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara) I just went to a workshop for my district where they said the same thing! Hooray

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

I, for one, am very happy to hear this and hope that it continues. Sadly, where I substitute, they are still training all the teachers in "direct instruction" and everything revolves around test scores, with increasing numbers of tests every year, both standardized and district-created, and pil

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

I just went to a workshop for my district where they said the same thing! Hooray! Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2012, at 9:02 PM, "Tracy Gaestel" wrote: For all of you in this situation, hang in there. Last week our superintendent came to a meeting of people selected to work on aligning our

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

I think this is why more of us who have actually taught need to go into leadership positions. When we love to teach and can't imagine anything else, it's a hard leap to make BUT, if we all stay put in the classroom, we don't have people who understand the real work that needs to be done in class

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

For all of you in this situation, hang in there. Last week our superintendent came to a meeting of people selected to work on aligning our curriculum to the Common Core Standards. He wanted to tell us personally that whatever had happened in the past, we were now to treat the text books as tools

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

Walker Reading Specialist/IL From: Heidi's Heidisongs Email To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara) That is truly

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara)

That is truly sad, and I feel your pain. It's terrible when administrators don't understand what best practices are, and they are the ones making all of the decisions! You'll have to decide now, which is the most important thing: keeping your job or your integrity. That's a tough choi

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

This is happening all over the country. YES, our children are SO MUCH MORE than data and, as teachers, we have the chance to "listen" to their reading, observe how they arrive at their comprehension decisions, read their writing and observe how they function as living. human beings. When I consider

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

There have been many responses to Ali regarding her principal's mandate that students should not be reading at school. But to me, the absolutely worst part of the post, even worse than the principal's orders, is this: "No one else on my "team" said anything...they just agreed with her." If te

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

I'm sure if they wanted better basketball players, they would have the kids shoot a million baskets each day. What are people thinking? What about kids that have no support at home? And they will wonder why the gap keeps getting bigger? Ugh! Sue Moore On May 25, 2012, at 6:53 PM, rascal...

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

Ali/FL I am in NC and in the county that I teach in and in my particular school guided reading (in small groups) is a must. You target teaching prompts and discussions based on the good things you see/hear readers do and teaching strategies that you see that would help students in areas that we

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

We are just emerging from a number of years of focused instruction in reading. They DO need time to read in class...it is not going to happen at home. Yes, working with small groups could happen at the same time. I am looking into the Daily 5 for 8th grade on a modified basis. With the

Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class

Believe me, many of us know exactly how you feel!! And in regard to your colleagues, remember this quote by Martin Luther King: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. [image: [info]]