Hello Families -
Today, we had a wonderful time hosting 30 visitors from the state of Wisconsin! The group of educators learned from the entire staff at Country Meadows about our practices as a Professional Learning Community. Each team devoted part of their collaborative team time to sharing practices with these educators. Topics included: targets based on the Common Core, Team Read, interventions, extensions, assessment, the new report card, how teams work together to meet the needs of students through mix-ups, our school-wide focus on social emotional learning, and so much more! They were amazed and impressed by the intense collaboration, focus on learning, and use of student assessment data to differentiate to meet the needs of each child!
It is always such a celebration for our staff to be able to reflect on practices with outside eyes. We are reminded that this school and district is truly unique. We are so lucky to work with such a great community and phenomenal (I think the best!) team of educators!
If your child comes home talking about visitors at school, they were here to learn from the amazing model this team sets!
Here are some of the comments the visitors left:
-Kuddos to all of you for implementing a great program with professionalism and LOVE for the kiddos. Keep it up!
-We would love to get to where you are!
-Your students are so respectful and courteous.
-I wish my own kids could go to school here!
-All of the grade levels are so willing to share and explain things to us!
-There is a strong and consistent message across all grade levels - AMAZING!
-Thank you for being so welcoming and allowing us to learn and ask questions!
-Thank you to the 4th grade for teaching us how develop a CFA (common formative assessment).
-Thank you to the "Specials" teachers for sharing with us during their lunch.
-You all seem to do a wonderful job of identifying where "tweaks" are needed in your practices. Great job continuously looking at your practice!
-Great job presenting and answering the TOUGH questions.
-I think you all do a fantastic job with your students. We can only aspire to be where you are!
-Wow! I love ALL of the student work displayed in the hallways! Very inviting!
-Love the Team Read in 1st Grade!
-Your whole school atmosphere is so inviting!
-I was very glad to see the PLC in action and how much you talked about students and grouping kids.
-Every staff member is knowledgeable about the story as a school!
-Your enthusiasm for what you are doing is impressive!
-Wow! My head is spinning with all the great things we saw!
-You "extended" my expectations!
-The staff is very professional.
-I can tell that you all eat, breathe, and sleep education!
