Welcome to Harrison's School Strategic resources or websites that we use to help our teachers meet our SSP goals. This blog is maintained and updated every few weeks by Mandy Sitten. If you have any suggestions or comments, please email Mandy Sitten. As we continue our work, it’s important that everyone is aware of the goals of our strategic plan. When our students graduate high school, we feel it is important that they are prepared to be college or career ready. Being "college and career ready" ultimately means that students are prepared for their next steps, that all doors remain open to them as they continue to pursue their education and their careers.
Below are our strategic plan goals that we will work to reinforce throughout the 2018-2019 school year. The full SSP will be posted at the end of September.
- Strengthen college and career readiness skills: competitive nationally.
- Continue professional learning through CCCs that are data driven by department.
- Increase stakeholder satisfaction and opportunities for involvement.
- Continue to integrate state benchmarks within our STEM program to achieve state certification.
AP RESOURCES
- Shmoop Videos
- AP Courses Overview
- AP Study Notes
- McGraw Hill
- AP Practice Exams
- Georgia Virtual Learning
- EdX Online Courses
- MIT Open Courseware
COBB TEACHING & LEARNING SYSTEM (CTLS)
- Blackboard Learn - Access Grade Level Content
- CTLS Updates/Applications
- 9–12 Blackboard Directions
- Instructional Technology
- What is CTLS?
- Quick Reference Guide for Teachers
- Custom Data Analysis Groups
- Student Performance Analysis for Teachers
COMMON CORE
- Achieve the Core
- Bringing the Common Core to Life
- Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS)
- Common Core State Standards Initiatives
- Georgia Standards
- EngageNY
- Partnership for Assessment Readiness for College and Careers
- Smarter Balanced
CRITICAL READING & THINKING
- "A Pre-Reading Text Based Activity"
- "Five Keys to Helping Students Read Difficult Texts"
- "The Challenge of Challenging Text"
- "Taming the Wild Text: A top-10 list of strategies to help the struggling reader become fierce, unafraid, and strong"
- Teaching Strategies for Critical Reading and Note Taking
- "Beyond the Yellow Highlighter"
CRITICAL WRITING FOR ALL CONTENT AREAS
CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
- Math - Coordinate Algebra Analysis
- Math - Unlocking Children's Math Potential
- MS-Foundations of Algebra Negative Exponents Lesson
DIFFERENTIATION
- 50 Ways to Differentiate
- Anchor Activities
- Anchor Activities Template
- The Big Picture of Differentiation
- Differentiation Lesson Checklist
- Differentiation Strategies for High School
- Differentiation Survey
- Knowing Your Student's Strengths
- Learning Contracts and Choice Boards
- Tiered Assignments
- Tiered Assignments Template
- What the Differentiated Class Looks Like
EOC/GA MILESTONES ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
ESOL RESOURCES/BEST PRACTICES FOR TEACHER
- 50 Essential Resources for ESL Students
- ELL Strategies and Best Practices
- ESL Resources
- ESOL Resources from Georgia DOE
- Research-Based Practices for English Language Learners
- Resources for Parents of ESL Students
- Three Best Practices for Teaching English Language Learners
- Twelve Ways to Support ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom
- Utah Education Network ELL Resources
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
- Anne Davies Suggestions on Getting Started with Formative Assessments
- Ed Leadership Article on Formative Assessment
- Ongoing Assessments
- Power of the Formative Assessment
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
MARZANO STRATEGIES
- 3-2-1 Summarizer
- Backward Summary
- Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
- Compare and Contrast Math Activity
- Comparison Matrix
- Concept Attainment in Math
- Cooperative Learning
- Cornell Notes
- Four Box Synectics
- Generating and Testing Hypotheses
- Homework and Practice
- Marzano's Nine Top Strategies
- Non-linguistic Representations
- Note Taking Strategies
- Note Taking Suggestions by College Board
- One Pager for Summarizing Reading
- Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers
- Setting Goals and Providing Feedback
- Similarities and Differences Overview
- Sum It Up
- Sum It Up Instructions
- Whip Around
NONFICTION READING STRATEGIES
PERFORMANCE BASED INSTRUCTION
- Combined Suggestions for Incorporating Business, Technology, and Economics
- Combined Suggestions for Performance Based Ideas for Language Arts
- Combined Suggestions for Performance Based Activities for Math
- Combined Suggestions for Performance Based Ideas for Science
- Combined Suggestions for Performance Based Activities for Social Studies
- Fine Arts Performance Ideas
- Incorporating Health and Physical Education
- Incorporating World Languages and Social Studies
- Major Interdisciplinary Performances Ideas
- Performance Based Instruction How-To
RIGOR
- Rigor Redefined
- Rigor Training - The Thought Filled Curriculum
- "Support Struggling Students with Academic Rigor"
- "The Thought Filled Curriculum"
SAT
- 5 Key Changes to the SAT
- College and Career Readiness Benchmarks for the SAT Suite of Assessments
- College Board Parent Webinars
- Easy to Use SAT Strategies for your Classroom
- Get Your SAT Scores
- Khan Academy
- Khan Academy's SAT Practice
- Math Sample Problems
- Official SAT Practice
- Official SAT Practice Video
- Official Student Guide for PSAT/NMSQT
- Prepfactory
- SAT Math Review
- SAT Practice
- SAT Practice Lesson Plans for Teachers by Teachers
- SAT Practice Tests
- SAT Student Guide
- Teacher Implementation Guide to the Redesigned SAT
- Videos: About the PSAT
- What Every Teacher Needs to Knows About the New SAT and ACT!
- Why take the PSAT/NMSQT?
STATEWIDE LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
STUDENT GROWTH MEASURE (SGM)
- Quick Look
- Rationale for Combined Growth Scores
- Teacher Effectiveness Guide
- Training Resources and Support
- Transitioning the GA Student Growth Model to the Milestones Assessment System
TEACHER KEYS EFFECTIVENESS SYSTEM (TKES)
- Check Certification Status
- Formative Assessment Form
- Georgia Department of Education TKES Information
- Handbook
- Summative Assessment Form
- Teacher Keys Performance Rubric
- Teacher Keys Performance Standards
- Teacher and Leaders Effectiveness System Platform
