Happy October bloggers!
This month we are
celebrating not one, but four of our schools in Tuscaloosa County! The cluster of Maxwell Elementary, Big Sandy
Elementary, Englewood Elementary, and Duncanville Middle schools are
collaborating in a professional learning group of administrators, instructional
coaches, math teachers, and special education teachers to implement questioning
strategies from the Walsh and Sattes book, Thinking Through Quality
Questioning: Deepening Student
Engagement.
Author, Jackie Walsh,
kicked off the book study and challenged participants to plan for standards
based instruction with the expectation of higher level student questioning that
will result in conceptual understanding.
Participants will meet four times during the 2014-2015 school year.
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| Duncanville Middle School Entrance |
This collaboration is the
vision of Duncanville Middle School principal, Kaye Ridgway. Duncanville Middle School is a “Leader in Me”
school and is practicing Habit 6 of Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly
Effective Teens.” They are synergizing
by working as a team of schools to improve student achievement and prepare
future graduates. The elementary schools
are feeder schools to Duncanville Middle and have taken “ownership” of their
students’ future learning.
Way to go, Mrs. Ridgway and the other schools participating in this Tuscaloosa County project! Your students will all Think WIN-WIN!
