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Performance Summary & Strategic Planning. Pagosa Springs Middle School Grades 5-8. Empowering students to navigate the future through learning and problem solving. School Performance Framework. School View .
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Performance Summary & Strategic Planning Pagosa Springs Middle School Grades 5-8 • Empowering students to navigate the future through learning and problem solving.
School View Colorado Growth Model: Visualization tool to view student growth for schools or districts
NWEA 2013-14 5-8 Math, Reading & Language
New District Strategic Framework • Whole Student Point of View • Curriculum Reset • Simplicity Re-Design • Community Conversation • Transformed Assessment • Program Review
BIG ROCKS for 2014-2015 • Full Implementation of the Literacy and Math Shifts that embed high level problem solving at the core of every student’s learning. • Revise Mission Statement • Leadership through peer coaching and high functioning professional learning community • Peloton Narrative
Key Shifts in English Language Arts • Across all content areas: • Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction text • Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational • Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Key Shifts in Mathematics • Focus: Narrow and deep emphasis based on standards embedding algebraic thinking at all levels • Coherence: Encompassing all grades levels and all contents within grades • Rigor: Equal intensity of conceptual understanding, procedural skills, fluency and application through the regular use of student dispositions: • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Pagosa Springs Middle School - Mission Empowering students to navigate the future through learning and problem solving.
The pelotonis the main group of riders in a road bicycle race. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group it can be as much as 40%.[1]
BIG ROCKS • BuildingCOMMUNITY through communication and engagement • Students • Parents • Staff