Brenda's Bits Week of Feb. 27- March 2

Hello Candalaria, Lee and McKinley Teachers,

Ok, here it is... Brenda's Bits first Blog! I'm taking a Tech class for my ESOL endorsement and one of my assigments is to create a blog, so I thought why not try this approach to my "Bit's"? The first one or two to reply that you saw my new blog gets a coffee card! You may even get two coffee cards if you write something great about it! ha!

You may have noticed that I've been in some buildings more than others during the past few weeks. The reason for this is; I've always believed that coaching is not a one day coach practice and then see you next time I'm scheduled at your building, but rather coaching is based on need or want. I coach 36 wonderful and talented teachers all with unique wants and needs. Yes, I would love to provide every teacher with equal time; however it's just not possible. So, what I am doing is responding to what you need in somewhat of a timely fashion based on how I can best support you. In other words, if you need me to coach over a period of days such as; modeling several consecutive lessons, please let me know, I would love to do just that.  So please understand that even though I might be "scheduled" at your building on a particular day, I may be working with a teacher at another building.  Email me with what you need and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.   Thanks for being flexible and understanding.

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:ixlmath.com Some schools have a membership to this site, while others do not. However, you can access ixl math for 30 days; free! This site is based on state standards, so find Oregon Standards. Some teachers are using this as a practice for OAKS or used for intervention or extension. Once a student completes a math problem and summits the answer they can see if their answer is correct or not.  If the answer is not correct have students click on "explaninations" to see how to do the problem. 

A few other websites for math pracitce that I have not shared before are:

illuminations.nctm.org/  This site is based on standards as well and has articles, lessons and interactive games.

 http://nrich.maths.org/public/ This is an UK site, so make sure you click on the American flag on the right.  I went to Home to uderstand how the site was organized.  It seems as the UK has what they call stages instead of grades:)  Although the activities are not listened by standards there are some "unique" lessons. 

www.choiceliteracy.com/public/1808print.cfm

   This article is about using literacy in math.  A great article for how to incorporate using literacy in word problems with ELL students.

CAFE Comprehension strategies:  A few of you mentioned that you would like the labels for CAFE strategies so that you could print your own.  Please let me know if you would like them. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KW6RO8Rcs Instead of a quote this week, I've linked you to a video called, "What is Culture?"  Enjoy!

Have a great full week! 

~Brenda