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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Two of my kids' math teachers make differentiated packets, so that as kids go through the lessons, the examples they work are on or above or substantially above grade level. The 4th grade teacher also started the year with below grade level examples so that kids really behind could still practice the concept, but was told that those could only go home as extras and below grade level material couldn't be worked on in class. At least they weren't required to ditch the above grade level example packets.[/quote]

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