Kent Sabo

School Principal | Better Teaching for Better Learning... Through Research

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@eduleadership Based on what I’ve seen, the reason the curricula is not finished is because teachers choose to deliver other lessons/activities outside of the curricula.

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@FixingEducation We’ve reduced our chronic absenteeism rate from 32% three years ago to below 10% this year.

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@MrZachG It does annoy me that magnet and high SES area school staff think they’re the greatest educators.

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@ClarkCountySch Ms. Uhl is the best school psychologist in the District!

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@DataInsightPart I had to eliminate 10 positions, so my guess is that there are many fewer positions available than there were in previous years. I’d like to know the ratio of vacant positions to total available positions.

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@AlecMacGillis My school reduced the number of chronically absent students by 60% over two years. So, improvement is possible.

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@Larryferlazzo My school reduced the number of chronically absent students by 60% over two years. Changing the school-going culture is possible.

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@amypento @rpondiscio I have a staff member that visits the home of any absent student who is also currently chronically absent or was the previous school year. In-person conversations at the home are key. I’ve found that only calling, emailing, or sending letters makes little to no impact.

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You just can’t do more than one thing well.

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@Doug_Lemov Same.

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@MrLandesman is easy to find and teach. Our challenge is consistently leaving enough time for the small group component.

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@MrLandesman During the first year, there were a few trainings. Our admin team got deep into it so we could support (and teach when needed).

The formative assessment opportunities throughout the lesson inform the small group component, which is a big plus. The content for small group …

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@MrLandesman Clark County School District in Nevada, USA. Post pandemic, math achievement is one of the only good things we have going for us, academically.

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@MrLandesman I’m 100% in the Kirschner camp, no defender of big publishers, and I also don’t believe the Solve & Share is any reason to throw out an otherwise solid program.

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@MrLandesman At best, it’s an opportunity for students to solve a challenging problem and share their previously learned strategies for solving it and a formative assessment opportunity for teachers to identify misconceptions for the direct instruction and gradual release part of the lesson.

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@MrLandesman It also includes Daily Review (retrieval), Visual Learning Bridge (direct instruction), Guided Practice (I do, we do), Independent Practice (you do), and time for small group intervention/acceleration at the end of

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@MrLandesman I work in a District of 300,000 students. We implemented enVision three years ago. The District, on average, saw gains every year since.

The Solve & Share portion of the lesson is 10 minutes where students work to solve a problem that is an extension of the previous lesson

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@MrLandesman The remainder of the 50 minutes is direct instruction. Student math performance in my school has increased substantially.