Educational+Foundation

Habits of the Mind This link will help explain what it is that we do in our class. It is our hope that our educational foundation is based on these habits of the mind and that each student will develop into a great critical thinker and problem solver.

Marzano's Instructional Beliefs This link will help you understand my philosophy when it comes to teaching students to become independent thinkers.

This is a list of Bloom's Question Stems. These will help you understand what sort of questions I ask and expect to be answered by the cooperative groups as well as individuals in my class.

Common Core Standards These are the common core standards we are adopting for the 2012-13 school year. We will transition into the new standards as crosswalks are created and more training is complete. This is an attempt to standardize the curricula across the country.