Kevin Vidergar

serving as Director of Teaching & Learning for Perry CSD, systems thinker, devoted Dad, Blessed to be in education

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Teachers need to intentionally coach struggling Ss to celebrate successes in learning. Bobb Darnell #IowaASCD

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Struggling Ss often need same content taught in a different way that provides success #IowaASCD16

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Impossibility turns to possibilities with relationships, planning, hope, & perseverance. Things can be better & I can do it. #IowaASCD16

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Tiered activities should allow students to grapple with concepts at a their readiness level. #IowaASCD16

[Katy @KatyInEducation]

Be so well planned you can be impulsive. Love it! #iowaascd16 #nwaea @rickwormeli2

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Tiering assignments & assessments means raising or lowering cognitive complexity to meet student learning needs. #IowaASCD16

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To stimulate continuous learning: After a conference or day in the classroom, ask yourself "I used to think..., now I think..." #iowaascd16

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As a teacher, I need to model how to struggle with learning with grace so my students learn how to do so. #iowaascd16

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According to R Wormeli, 90% of differentiation occurs in the planning, not in implementation. #iowaascd16

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Ensuring learning only happens when time is the variable and instructional responds to student's needs. #iowaascd16

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Begin w/ only 1 or 2 possible hmwk ideas & then adjust them as needed to meet each student's needs. Fair isn't always equal. #iowaascd16

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The root of differentiation is responsive teaching - R. Wormeli. #iowaascd16

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Grade = end of the journey, not the journey itself. That path can be straight & narrow or long and curvy. #iowaascd16

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Use social media to 'rub our brains' up against others, making us smarter GInger Lewman conversation anywhere anytime #NAGC2015 #iowaascd15

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Model skillful use of language if students are to develop a writer’s vocabulary (in addition to sharing lots of books). #fallinstitute2015

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Students should have many books to draw on when writing and each book offers an example of a specific writing technique. #fallinstitute2015.

[Jason Ellingson @jasonellingson]

If we don't teach and support imagination, why are we surprised when students cannot write fiction? #FallInstitute2015

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Front loading a book does not allow the reader to make connections & think for him/herself as they listen to the story. #FallInstitute2015

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If a book is worth instructional time, then it should be read multiple times. #FallInstitute2015 #iowaascd15