Collective Comittments
Mt. Whitney High School
Collective Committments
- Daily Objectives posted and communicated
- Common Location
- Student Friendly Language
- Clear Expectations
- Bell to Bell instruction
- Daily Routines
- Quick/Focused Transitions
- Student Focused
- CFU’s/TOTD
- We work in teams
- Student Learning Focused
- Agree and Implement with Fidelity
- Follow Norms
- Engage
- Students will participate in regular academic skills development lessons
- Reading
- Writing
- Annotation
- Cloze Reading
- Notetaking
- How to Work in Teams
- Content literacy/academic vocabulary will be developed and displayed
- High Frequency Vocabulary
- Technical Vocabulary
- Common Stumbling Blocks
- Explicit Instruction on Vocabulary
- Planned remediation
- Frequent Formative Assessment
- Team Approach
- Data Analysis
- Timely Feedback
- Engagement structures are part of regular instruction.
- Lessons Designed with Collaborative Efforts
- Rooms Arranged to Support Collaboration
- Seat Assignments to Support Teams