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[Maston to colleagues:] And what we are going to do is we are going to focus

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on the reading language arts part, and we are going to look at the data.

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[Maston:] The teachers here at Hardy meet weekly.

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It's important that we meet as a grade-level team because during that time we discuss our kids

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and the testing assessments, which help us to get together,

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focus on certain skills that the kids may need.

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And also, we are able to look at these different students, see who needs intervention,

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and see who needs to be placed with the different support teams

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that we have for the advanced students.

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Also during that time, we come together in order to brainstorm

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on writing prompts, and each grade level does this.

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It's important that the writing prompts are geared towards that specific grade.

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Also during that time, if we have concerns of materials

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that we need during our team time-that's a period where we look at the students

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and we divide them by ability, and we work with those kids on whatever skills they need.

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So there are times when one group

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of kids may not need a certain help in the area where other kids do.

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So during those grade-level meetings, we are able to brainstorm, come up with different ideas,

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and also we share these weekly with our administrative team.

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[Maston to colleagues:] What I have noticed is there are two areas across the board

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with the students that we have now who are either borderline proficient,

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and we have to come up with strategies of getting them to advanced because our goal this year is

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to move as many kids as we can to advanced.

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So our first team time, what do you want to focus on because what I have noticed is the grammar

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and the writing process were the two areas that needed the most help?

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[Teacher:] We probably just need to work on one of them for the first team time.

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Maybe focus on grammar, and maybe we can break it down to see exactly

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where in the grammar process they had their problems;

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I am sure there is something that gives maybe more detail.

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Maston to colleagues: Yes, there is.

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You ought to take a look at it, but these were the two areas that I was looking at right here.

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And if you would notice, I could just randomly pick-see how it is?

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[Teacher:] That writing process seems to be every year in third and fourth grade.

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Grammar, I am a little bit surprised.

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[Maston:] These grade level meetings are very important because they guide our instruction,

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and we are able to look at where the kids are, and use the information as a team in order

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to put together strategies and materials to move our kids forward.