Because few teachers have been inviting us to take part in research activities in their classroom over the last 2 pandemic years, this year we are working on a goal of isolated skills that are not tied to the curriculum. This is not necessarily what we *want* to do but it should at least give us access to instruct students that we aren't seeing otherwise because research has fallen by the wayside lately.

(These are not yet refined and worded all pretty yet)

This year, we will conduct lessons using the SHEG/COR curriculum. We will deliver a pre-assessment next week using assessment tools created by SHEG/COR. Students will take the pre-assessment during ILT (individual learning time - like an "advisory" - 30 minutes every day) The preassessment is a google form that targets 3 key skills:

Who's behind the information?
What's the evidence?
What do other resources say?

Over the course of the year, we will deliver 4 forty-minute lessons with all freshman students and all sophomore students. That will be a 40-minute lesson in each content area: English, Social Studies, Science, and Math. The lessons are not part of the content area course curriculum. We will use SHEG/COR lessons.

At the end of the year, we will deliver the post-assessment. The pre and post-assessments will be scored using the rubrics provided by SHEG/COR.

It's not the kind of instruction I want to do. I want relevant research skills embedded into course content. But because everyone is struggling, that's not happening. This is a stop-gap measure so that we can have the opportunity to get essential foundational skills to lower classmen. In the meantime, we are working on a better "assured experiences" model for next year.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 9:00 AM Thomas Andronowitz <TAndronowitz@thomastonschools.org> wrote:

I'm interested as well - Our SLOs are geared towards SEL this year.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:47 AM Jen <jlarkin24@gmail.com> wrote:
also interested - especially as it ties into Vision of a Graduate...

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:45 AM Tenley Stoltz <tenley.stoltz@somers.k12.ct.us> wrote:
Definitely interested in hearing the replies! I know we have the website with shared SLO's, but high school is difficult if you don't have a class.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:37 AM STEPHANIE PATTERSON <spatterson@southingtonschools.org> wrote:

Hello All!

I am making some adjustments to SLOs this year and working with a new evaluator. I'm looking forward to a new collaborative partnership that more accurately reflects practice here and focuses on research skills in addition to everything else and links to one of the "4-C's - Critical Thinking - Vision of a Graduate" material that is now becoming more embedded in Southington.

Would anyone be comfortable sharing any material and insight for high school practice?

Many thanks,

Stephanie Patterson

Southington High School Library

"Building character with critical thinking, creativity,

collaboration and communication."

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