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Meeting Snapshot: Sharing Resources
Jason DiCarlo explains the importance of previewing resources and not just giving them to teachers, as well as linking the text directly to current work. In this video example, Jason...
Coaching Minute: Baggies
Melanie Meehan shares her bedraggled baggie—the essential tools she carries with her when she confers with students.
Coaching Minute: What’s in My Bag
Melanie Meehan opens her coaching bag to share her favorite on-the-go resources.
Meeting Snapshot: Deciding Look-Fors
In this excerpt from a meeting before a first-grade demonstration lesson, Principal Jason DiCarlo and teachers discuss potential "look-fors" during the lesson—what everyone will focus on during observations. The lesson...
Coaching Minute: Conferring Cards
Melanie Meehan shares the simple cards she gives to students when conferring. These cards document compliments and challenges to guide the student after the conference is over.
Sticking with a Topic
Tammy Mulligan leads a group with Luke and Gabby, two third graders who have trouble focusing on a topic while writing drafts. The demonstration lesson includes a prebrief and debrief...
Coaching Minute: Cycle Evaluation Form
Melanie Meehan shares her coaching cycle evaluation form and why it is helpful in this quick video tip.
Coaching Minute: Student Work Form
Melanie Meehan talks about the importance of developing assessment forms for coaching cycles that focus on student work and integrating analysis of the work into plans for instruction.
First-Grade Retelling Demonstration Lesson
Clare Landrigan leads this first-grade demonstration small group on retelling strategies. The demonstration includes prebrief and debrief meetings with the teacher.
Meeting Snapshot: Defining the Essential Question
Jason DiCarlo leads a team of first-grade teachers and specialists as they work to define an essential question before a demonstration lesson on the difference between fiction and nonfiction text...
Problems and Solutions: Small-Group Demonstration Lesson
In this demonstration small group, Clare Landrigan works with a second-grade teacher to reflect on the needs of two students and, after the lesson, debriefs with her about the learning....
Meeting Snapshot: Selecting a Standard for Lesson Study
Jason DiCarlo works with a first-grade team to select a standard before designing a lesson. The group explores connections between reading and writing, and has an honest discussion of where...
Teaching Advanced Second-Grade Writers: Debrief
Literacy coach Kathy Provost and second-grade teacher Jen Volpicelli debrief after teaching a lesson for second graders who are moving beyond grade-level expectations in their writing. This is the third...
First-Grade Writing Group: Catchy Endings
Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration small group with first graders who are having trouble writing catchy endings to their opinion pieces. The lesson includes a prebrief and debrief with the...
Teaching Advanced Second-Grade Writers: A Collaborative Lesson
Literacy coach Kathy Provost and second-grade teacher Jen Volpicelli teach a lesson for second graders who are moving beyond grade level expectations in their writing. This is the second video...
Teaching Advanced Second-Grade Writers: Designing the Lesson
Literacy coach Kathy Provost and second-grade teacher Jen Volpicelli design a lesson for second graders who are moving beyond grade-level expectations in their writing. This is the first video in...
Meeting Snapshot: Examining Standards for Vertical Alignment
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...
Meeting Snapshot: Evidence of Learning
In this brief excerpt from a first-grade team planning meeting, Principal Jason DiCarlo asks for evidence of learning from previous work together. The teachers had observed a demonstration lesson on...
First-Grade Small Group: From Decoding to Monitoring for Meaning
Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration small group with Braden and Talis, who are working to move from an emphasis on decoding in first grade to monitoring meaning. The video includes...
Meeting Snapshot: Exploring Terms in Standards
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...
Monitor for Meaning in Third Grade
In this demonstration conference, Tammy Mulligan works with third grader Ben to help him monitor meaning. The lesson includes prebrief and debrief sessions with his teacher.
