Rochester High School - Our Journey
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Think from the High!
Our journey begins in the 2015-16 school year. We created a new team consisting of staff members to make up our "RHS Instructional Leadership Team" to lead our building in applying Ron Ritchart's 8 Cultural Forces to our instruction.
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Our Focus This Year

Our current focus is on two of the eight forces, Environment and Expectations.
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Book Study Group

Many of our staff members also meet regularly to discuss Ron Ritchhart's book, Creating Cultures of Thinking.
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Instructional Rounds

RHS staff members make "Instructional Rounds"  where they observe their colleagues to get insight and new ideas for their own teaching.
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observation_sheet.pdf
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Professional Development

Our district professional development time and building-level staff meetings are filled with collaboration, interaction, and feedback. Discussion revolves around implementing the cultural forces of Environment and Expectations.
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How do students show a "developed understanding” of the goal of the classroom activity versus knowledge acquisition only?
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Which activities effectively cultivate student independence so  students are not dependent on the teacher to answer all questions and direct all activity?
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How can we tweak our classroom environments  to enhance learning and build a culture of thinking?
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During a "Gallery Walk" of random classrooms, what evidence is displayed that shows learning is taking place?

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Environment:
Using space to support
learning and thinking.

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