SCHOOL PROFILE School: Ochoa Middle School | Hayward | California School Information: Anthony W. Ochoa Middle School is located in Hayward, CA and is one of 5 middle schools in Hayward Unified School District. It is a public school that serves approximately 610 students in grades 7-8. Approximately 60% of students participate in a free or reduced lunch program and […]
May 2015 NEWSLETTER DON'T START CLASS WITH A QUIZ "Give students a few chances at success before they have the chance to fail. Pack as many celebrated victories into the first two minutes of class as humanly possible!" A few years ago during a talk I was giving to a school faculty, I was drawn into a […]
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Union High School | Grand Rapids | Michigan School Information: Michigan has three criteria to categorize schools: Reward, Focus, and Priority. Reward schools are outperforming other schools, Focus schools have a large achievement gap in 30% of its student achievement scores, and Priority schools have achievement and growth in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state. Union High School […]
April 2015 NEWSLETTER NO OPT OUT: WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER "When students are allowed to ‘opt out’ - it is as if they are invisible; that they do not matter to the teacher." A few years ago I observed a chemistry class and watched the following story unfold. While the teacher lectured, a student walked in tardy. […]
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Point Quest Education (PQE) | Sacramento | California School Information: PQE is a nonpublic school that serves students with emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges; arguably the highest need students in their region. Students who can no longer be served by public institutions transfer to PQE where they can learn the tools and strategies needed to return […]
ORGANIZATION PROFILE Organization: www.principalcenter.com Focus: Setting Students Up For Success INTERVIEW Mitch recently hosted two Organized Binder webinars for school leaders and administrators with The Principal Center. In an interview with The Principal Center's Justin Baeder, Mitch explains the advantages of having a school-wide approach to organization, maximizing cognitive energy in the classroom, and why Organized Binder is the […]
Harbor High School, an Organized Binder school in Santa Cruz, CA has committed to "Setting the Purpose" of each lesson they teach. We are honored that the incredible staff at Harbor High School adopted Organized Binder to help them make this goal a reality:
March 2015 NEWSLETTER TIP: CREATE VALUE IN YOUR STARTING ROUTINE "...having a starting routine that has value will help you start class on time and greatly reduce classroom management issues that so often plague the first few minutes of class." In 2011 Louis Menand published an article in The New Yorker (Live and Learn: Why we […]
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Mount Clemens High School | Mount Clemens | Michigan Demographic: 75% minority students, 79% Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, and nearly three quarters of student body participate in the Free Lunch program. Background: Mount Clemens High School for a number of years has suffered from declining enrollment. The school is serving some of the region north of Detroit's most […]
BACKGROUND A few weeks ago an exasperated parent of a middle school student contacted us here at Organized Binder. She had witnessed Organized Binder: Teacher being used in the classroom and hoped to bring the same academic success to her son, who was struggling in middle school. After implementing Organized Binder: Student with her son the very […]
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