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7 reasons why your students won’t do their assignment

September 20, 2017 by Kim Lepre 5 Comments

7 reasons why your students won't do their assignment | classroom management | first year teaching | misbehavior | failing students

Picture this: you’ve planned out the perfect unit, and today is when students really need to buckle down and get down to work. You disseminate the assignment, give the students directions, and send them off to learning land. While 30 sets of heads hover over their worksheet, you notice one looking out the window. Another […]

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Reflect, revise, and refresh after your first grading period

September 12, 2017 by Kim Lepre 2 Comments

Trees and their reflection in water

While some teachers are just embarking on their school year, my district just wrapped up its first grading period! For the past 16 years, I’ve taken the time to reflect on several areas of my teaching that are essential to my students’ success. Where am I at in my pacing in relation to where I’d […]

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Filed Under: Curriculum, Teaching Tagged With: grading period, pacing, reevaluate, reflect, revise

Digging into data: identifying the needs of struggling students

September 5, 2017 by Kim Lepre Leave a Comment

two hands putting a puzzle piece together, representing putting the pieces of student data together to complete a picture

This is my final installment of my Digging into Data series, so I’m going to give an example of how this data has helped me identify struggling students, and how it helps me differentiate for all of students. If you haven’t already read the other posts in the series, I encourage you to do so, […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: analyzing data, assessment, data, lexile, struggling, students

Digging into data: two teachers’ perspectives on demographic data

August 29, 2017 by Kim Lepre 1 Comment

Diversity represented in people of different colors holding hands

In my previous post, I discussed the merits of administering a baseline assessment and how I interpret that data. Today, I’m looking at student demographic data as another way of creating a complete picture of who my students are. While it doesn’t sound like the most exciting way to spend an hour of planning time, […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: data, demographic, English learners, IEP, language, race

Digging into data: your pre-assessment data is the rudder to your ship

August 22, 2017 by Kim Lepre 2 Comments

Using pre-assessment data | assessment | back-to-school | back to school | collecting data | how to know if your students are struggling

We are a month into the school year, and my data collection is coming along quite nicely. In fact, I’m elbow deep in it, a.k.a., grading my first pre-assessment. I usually take my time with the first one because I’m really trying to learn my students and their writing styles. It’s definitely a labor of […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: analyzing data, data, pre-assessment, rubric, skills, standards

Digging into data: how Lexile scores can help to inform educational decisions

August 15, 2017 by Kim Lepre 1 Comment

How lexile levels work | how to use Lexile | student reading | reading level

It’s time for a vlog post! This week I’ve taken to video format to show you how to use students’ Lexile scores and reading levels to inform educational decisions. I’ve included a breakdown of two of my classes’ Lexile scores and how I plan to use them for groups and seating charts. A quick note: […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: analyzing data, data, levels, lexile, reading, seating charts

Digging into data: Analyzing IEPs to be an effective teacher for students with disabilities

August 9, 2017 by Kim Lepre 3 Comments

individualized learning plans | IEPs | how to support students with IEP | how to read an IEP

In my previous post, I discussed the 5 types of data that every teacher needs to collect to move their students forward. Today, I’m going to focus on one type of data mentioned in that post – Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). All teachers – whether they teach accelerated or special education students – will come across […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: disabilities, IEP, special education

When ignoring data drives teachers down the wrong path

July 25, 2017 by Kim Lepre Leave a Comment

data drives

Data. Analyzing data. I remember that I would literally groan and face palm when I heard an administrator mutter those words. At my previous school, the discussion of data was always paired with bad news regarding test scores. Or targeted populations. Sometimes the doom of program improvement, and teaching to the standardized test. At the […]

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Filed Under: Digging into Data Series, Teaching Tagged With: analyzing data, data, data and education, data driven, education

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