Data Class-Chapter 3

As I started reading this chapter, I was thinking, "Hey, we're doing that stuff!" Data without conversation doesn't mean anything. As a high-needs special ed team, the five teachers in the district spent many hours last year working on a continuum of curriculum. If I have kids working through the same curriculum for six years in my classroom and they move on to something totally unfamiliar in year 7, then it's back to square one for them. On the other hand, if I don't know what students are expected to know in the high school program, what help can I be to those teachers if I'm not at least laying out a base for them to build on. It's hard to collaborate horizontally, but we do a pretty good job vertically. We even created a brochure last year that explains each of the five programs and the curricula that are used in each.