Meeting Snapshot: Deciding Look-Fors

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Meeting Snapshot: Selecting a Standard for Lesson Study

Jason DiCarlo

In this short video excerpt, Jason DiCarlo works with a first-grade team to select a standard before designing a demonstration lesson. The group explores connections between reading and writing, and has an honest discussion of where children are in terms of understanding differences in fiction and nonfiction.

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Meeting Snapshot: Examining Standards for Vertical Alignment

Jason DiCarlo

In this excerpt from a first-grade lesson study, Principal Jason DiCarlo and the team look at the standard they are tackling compared with what is expected in kindergarten and second grade.

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Meeting Snapshot: Exploring Terms in Standards

Jason DiCarlo

Jason DiCarlo pauses for a minute with a team of first-grade teachers to examine a standard together, projected with an LCD to ensure everyone has the same understanding of terms and definitions in the standard.