The Final Day

We began the day with an exert from Mindset by Carol Dweck.  It discussed the importance of setting high standards for all students and developing a nurturing atmosphere in classrooms.  The article also addressed how to set expectations and be persistent especially with students who are not motivated to do work.  The author reinforced the growth mindset for teachers and students. We discussed in groups the article in the context of our school wide goals.  We reflected on if our goals were in the growth or fixed mindset.

Mr. Slider then led us through a discussion about effective and ineffective initiatives in schools.  This helped us get a mindset of how we should implement our LALLI initiatives in our school that we get staff buy in.  After the discussion we broke out into school groups to revise our goals.  As part of our revisions, we ensured that our goals were meeting the literacy standards and included writing, reading, spoken language,and listening.





We then did breakout sessions with the other literacy groups here today.  The sessions included:
1) Grammar is everywhere
2) Backwards planning in math
3) Cooperative learning strategies with ELLs
4) Text Complexity

We came back together as a group and some of the math participants shared to the group.  Wes and Natalie discussed their backward planning unit for 6th grade unit rates.  Sarah and Shelly shared their plans for the first six weeks of 7th grade math.  Their plan involved using a stock market game to teach positive and negative integers.

As the day was coming to a close, we had some final moments to finish our personal and school goals.  At 12:15 we met as a group and each school presented their final plans to the group.  In the final 15 minutes we made sure to take time to reflect on all of the strategies and topics we had learned over the past two weeks. We then closed the LALLI Institute for the summer.  We look forward to seeing everyone's progress when the group comes back together in the fall.

Edited by: Andrew, Katie, and Win