Math Interventions Selected
Over the last 7 months a subcommittee of our Response to Intervention Leadership Team meet to begin analyzing research-based interventions in math. They took a similar approach to the one the literacy...
View ArticleCreating a Team Approach for Financial Literacy
What happens when you drive 7 TOSAs and one director an hour and a half one way in a district Suburban to the state summit meeting on Personal Financial Literacy and discover that the state… Hasn’t yet...
View ArticleElementary Standards Alignment Team Gets the Job Done!
2 days, 3 layers of clothing, 4 pounds of chocolate, 55 educators deeply engaged in curriculum analysis and the Thompson School District are now the proud owners of powerful Scope and Sequence...
View ArticleMiddle School Math and LA Teachers Map New Standards
It was the second week after school let out and it was already hot. Thank goodness we were working at Lucille Erwin and they were kind enough to crank up the AC because 87 of our middle school language...
View ArticleEdmondson Asks: What does it mean to be a STEM school?
Lab coats? Check! Beakers and Solutions? Check! Hands-on learning? Check! A Day of Thoughtful Inquiry? Check! As all teachers return across our Thompson district and prepare for the upcoming school...
View ArticleGreat Teaching Resources for the Election Season
Though it has been years since I have taught social studies, I still get excited about election season. This is one of the best times to really connect students authentically to the content they are...
View ArticleK-5 Math Adoption Preps for 2014-2015 Implementation
The Thompson School District is planning to implement a new mathematics program in grades K-5 for the 2014-2015 school year. Diane Lauer, Executive Director of Instruction, will be convening a math...
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