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1. Gathering Evidence
What reliable and valid evidence indicated student achievement?
  • EQAO Information
  • Common (School-Based) Assessments
  • Teacher Assessment
  • Report Card Data

2. Areas of Greatest Need
What supports you in choosing areas of greatest need?
  • EQAO Item Analysis
  • Moderated Marketing
  • School/Division data walk(s)

3. Current Practice
What is your schools current practice and what does the research suggest in relation to the areas of greatest need?
  • Current practice equals what is happening in classrooms and what does the research literature tell us.

4. Design: Rubric, Data Wall, Culminating Task
What should students know, do and understand at the end of the Pathway?
  • Select curriculum expectations and identify students to watch
  • Establish criteria for success - develop a common rubric
  • Build a class data wall - judge where each student is compared to the selected curriculum expectations
  • Predict student success
  • Develop (a) culminating task(s)
  • Agree upon instructional approaches
  • Identify critical thinking strategy(ies)
  • Choose a variety of rich text(s)/resources
  • Differentiate instruction
  • Have students discuss "what strategies they found most helpful to support their thinking"
  • Plan classroom actions for teaching/learning

5. Action: Professional Learning Community
What is the difference that is making the difference?
  • Bring evidence of student work
  • Choose and share evidence of learning from "student to watch"
  • Use rubric as a learning lens
  • Share teacher practice
  • Capture emerging questions and choose research (articles/teacher learning resources) for just in time embedded PD
  • Support teacher reflection
  • Stay the course

6. Culminating Task(s)
Is there a difference in student achievement?

7. Moderated Marking
What is the difference that made the difference?
  • Results - evidence of student achievement...
  • Actual student results posted on the class data walls
  • Comparison of the predicted versus the actual results

8. Communication
What did we learn? Based on our enquiry what do we want to do next?
  • What did the evidence of student learning tell us
  • What did evidence of teaching tell us
  • Capture big ideas and big solutions – reflection
  • Plan for our next Pathway