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Tag: Organized Binder

March 16, 2016
March 2016 Tip of the Month: Do You Believe Students Can Achieve?

March 2016 NEWSLETTER Do You Believe Students Can Achieve? In this month's newsletter we are highlighting great work happening at an alternative education center in Northern California, so I thought it would be a good fit to tell you about a recent visit to a continuation school that has implemented Organized Binder. A significant number of […]

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February 15, 2016
Harbor High School Wins Gold Ribbon Award

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Harbor High School | Santa Cruz | California Two years ago Harbor High School implemented Organized Binder:Teacher. The effort, lead by principal Dick Davis, has been the model of a faculty committing to a reform initiative. All of the teachers who have participated in Organized Binder have committed to trainings, follow-up sessions, and implementing the system […]

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February 3, 2016
Organized Binder Word Cloud

At the end of the school year high school science teacher Jessica Magallanes asked her students to reflect on her course. She created this word cloud from their responses. Students clearly identified Organized Binder as one of the aspects of her class that helped them achieve. Thanks for sharing this with us Jessica! Keep up the great […]

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January 21, 2016
January 2016 Tip of the Month: The Opportunity To Reteach

January 2016 NEWSLETTER The Opportunity To Reteach A few years ago I was helping Helen, a teacher at an Organized Binder school, who was swamped by a very large exam she had to grade. I offered to help her record the scores and file some papers while she finished the grading. I overheard her talking to herself […]

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January 17, 2016
Overwhelming Community College Success

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Sierra College | Rocklin | California Our most vulnerable graduates who go to college overwhelmingly attend community college. The Student Success Task Force for Community Colleges recently reported that "more than 70 percent of community college students who enter the system are under prepared to do college-level work with the majority being first generation college students, […]

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December 7, 2015
Feedback From Washington, D.C. High School Teachers

In preparation Organized Binder Follow-Up #1 some high school teachers sent in feedback around how the system is impacting their classroom. Below is a few of those submissions:  "OB is going very well.  All of my students (160) now have three ring binders with the required OB sheets.  This Advisory, students were allowed to used […]

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December 7, 2015
Reflections From a Washington, D.C. Teacher

December 2015 NEWSLETTER: Reflections from Adam Evans We visited Ballou High School in the summer of 2015 to introduce the staff to Organized Binder. Within a month of that training Adam Evans sent the following email to the Ballou faculty. I appreciate Adam's honesty around his reluctance to implement and his observations afterward:  "Good evening, Knights. I just wanted to follow up with […]

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October 25, 2015
October 2015 Tip of the Month: Practice for EL Students

October 2015 NEWSLETTER Practice for EL Students A few years ago I was talking with a teacher about how to help her Spanish-speaking students increase their English language proficiency, a common discussion in schools in the US. She was frustrated that her students communicate in their native language when interacting with one another in class and […]

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October 7, 2015
Success In Cleveland, Ohio

SCHOOL PROFILE School: Urban Community School | Cleveland | Ohio Urban Community School is a K-8 school that provides primarily low-income children from Cleveland with an individualized, innovative, and challenging education. The school prides itself on welcoming a diverse student body, with a focus on serving low-income children. Urban Community School serves nearly 500 students with 78% living at […]

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September 13, 2015
August/September Tip of the Month: Safe Classrooms

August/September 2015 NEWSLETTER CREATING SAFE CLASSROOMS “You always pushed me to my fullest and showed me how sweet the end result of hard work in class feels like. I got my first A of high school in your class and found my calling in life; coming from where I came from finding a calling in life […]

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