| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:32:00 PM | For ALL learners. |
| 2. | 3/19/2008 7:20:00 PM | This is very important. More training and practice needed by district educators |
| 3. | 4/7/2008 9:56:00 PM | Support, time, training and flexibility will be key to create a culture that believes in this important inititiative. |
| 4. | 4/7/2008 9:44:00 PM | This goal is great, yet it is important that teachers get proper training on how to use differentiation in the classroom. |
| 5. | 4/7/2008 9:21:00 PM | Provide support to the staff for differentiation in the core required classes. |
| 6. | 4/8/2008 12:31:00 AM | We need to make differentiation easy for teachers to understand how to do, realistic to implement and applicable for the HS situation. This can seem overwhelming, but I think most teachers know it is the right thing to do. Again - time to learn, try and discuss will be really important with this goal. |
| 7. | 4/9/2008 4:10:00 PM | I feel this is already being done. |
| 8. | 4/8/2008 1:03:00 PM | This should be part of RTI. They can not be seperated. |
| 9. | 4/8/2008 12:10:00 PM | I think this is more of a job target for certain teachers than it is a district-wide goal. |
| 10. | 4/8/2008 12:26:00 PM | Again, time is the contraint with this one. We often don't know who is walking in our door and what their needs are until well into the first quarter. We don't always get information about students far enough in advance to start with differentiation strategies soon enough. |
| 11. | 4/8/2008 4:21:00 PM | we have to let go of the old ways that WE LEARNED and look at how to teach and reach these digital natives. this is huge we need inservices we have to address this issue it's not going to go away |
| 12. | 4/8/2008 5:08:00 PM | I think most of the high school teachers already do this. |
| 13. | 4/8/2008 4:59:00 PM | You could perhaps combine this goal with the previous one about scheduling. |
| 14. | 4/8/2008 8:52:00 PM | Do this by departments. The English department has already gone through this process, and it may very well be our next year-long goal to foster it cooperatively (only to serve as a model for the rest of the departments (esp. core areas)). |
| 15. | 4/8/2008 9:06:00 PM | Rather than always providing differentiation, it might be helpful to address lack of acquisition before students get into the high school setting. |
| 16. | 4/8/2008 7:58:00 PM | At the high school we should certainly look at the restrictions we place on students as to what coures they can access at what grade level. I sometimes feel that it is a convenient manner for staff to avoid younger students. A student's interests and skills should drive whether or not a course is available to them. |
| 17. | 4/10/2008 1:16:00 PM | Very important. However, a one and done workshop isn't going to even come close to helping teachers actually do this. This is tied directly to professional development, but sending teachers to speakers who show strategies on differentiation is an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars. Without a plan for implementing and checking up on this initiative, it is a wasted effort. Again, the "wait it out" motto comes into play. This isn't to say that educators aren't differentiating instruction. Some are. But to make the massive sweeping changes in the district, as we should continue to do if we are going to "sell" ourselves as a leading edge district, on some level feet need to be held to the fire. |
| 18. | 4/10/2008 6:13:00 PM | This is very important, but we have little training in the area - subject area training is vital, as the general training does not offer concrete examples of how to use it in our classrooms. |