Thursday, December 5, 2013

Acton-Boxborough Regional Meeting for Kindergarten Teachers


Acting like engineers....



    If your kindergarten student tells you that he or she had a substitute teacher this week, it is because we are taking full advantage of our regionalization with Acton for  professional development.  All of Acton's and Boxborough's kindergarten teachers met for the entire day to discuss best practice and instruction through all the content area subjects: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science,  and Social Studies.  In addition, we discussed the use of specific common assessments--called District Determined Measures--that will be used throughout the new AB district to assess and evaluate student learning and be able to speak about it with students, parents, and colleagues.  Another advantage of the common assessments is the ability to establish benchmark performance targets for our district.
The Winning Structure at over 1 meter high