The Tatum High School Math Team has rolled up their sleeves and gone above and beyond to ensure that our students are successful. With close collaboration among the team to extended tutoring sessions for students, the math team is determined to ensure that all students are not only prepared for STAAR testing but for success in College and Career.
Growing Excellence (+10 for ALL)
Jason Cammack is a high school buddy of mine and his Instagram post below really popped out for me this morning when I got up. The same old thinking leads to the same old results, and if we're not careful the same old results will lead back to our same old thinking. When developing solutions to problems that we have been experiencing all year, we must ask ourselves this question. Is the problem really our result or is it our thinking?
If we truly believe in growing kids and want to accomplish this goal of every kid increasing their performance by 10 points from last year, let's remember to look inward before we look outward. Below are a few questions that can help us all evaluate our thinking after we look at results.
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Yes
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No
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Do we think about failure in terms of failure to grow and improve instead of the mindset of failure to pass?
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Does our thinking about our response to a student’s failure to grow result in a meaningful change in the way we teach those kids who are regressing?
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When a student fails to grow, do we initially reflect on our instruction and the ways it helped or didn’t help the student grow?
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With respect to apathetic or disruptive students, do we think first about ways that we can change our approach to better meet the student’s deficits and how we can better connect with them?
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With respect to academic deficits, do we reflect on how we teach concepts and whether or not they are truly meeting kids where they currently are in their ability?
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When we don’t know what to do, do we look to our colleagues for guidance, suggestions and strategies to better meet the needs of our regressing students?
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Do you have more checks in the yes column or no column?
If you have more no's, you may be stuck in the same old thinking. If you have more checks in the yes column, you are headed in the right direction. The same old results are precipitated by the same old thinking. If we truly want our students to grow, we must commit to our own growth and development first. That will only happen when we honestly reflect on our own abilities and effectiveness. When that happens, we will be more able to create new actions, skills and mindsets which in turn will lead to new and ultimately, better results.
College AND Career
Ashley Moore, recruiter from TSTC speaks to Coach Eppler's class about their programs in Marshall. pic.twitter.com/Rt6c0K3Zmw
— Tatum ISD (@tatumisd) January 11, 2016
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