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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most ISSs are useless positions.  They don’t do anything that positively impacts schools.  At best they are neutral, at worst they hinder learning through mandates that are a waste of time.  Literally wasting your children’s instructional time so thry can look like their job it’s important.  [/quote]

Without Instructional Supts, you'd be at the mercy of the principal, as they would not be managed. Be careful what you ask for.[/quote]

Without this one, I would do differentiated small groups. She did a walkthrough and said we can’t do differentiated groups because struggling students weren’t benefiting from the discourse of advanced students. So now everyone just gets the same instruction. [/quote]

You can’t *exclusively* do differentiated small groups, it just needs to be in addition to tier 1 instruction. It’s built into the math block schedule for example. [/quote]

Yeah, that’s what I did. Everyone sat through the hour math block, my struggling students basically did the best they could, my advanced students just sat bored. Then when I had my 30-minute needs based small groups I pulled the kids who didn’t get it during the whole group lesson and retaught it.

If I didn’t have to worry about going too slow for the advanced kids, I probably could get them the lesson in 15 minutes. Then I could double up or extend the learning for 15 minutes for the advanced kids. No one would be bored or lost, they would all be getting what they need.

It’s a model and it works, I just prefer to more efficiently meet kids’ needs. I don’t like sitting through PD on stuff I already know, I can’t imagine kids want to either. [/quote]

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