"They Succeed, Because They Think They Can" Virgil

The past two weeks we have worked with our small group of middle school students. They have been incredibly receptive to working within the group setting. The first week we talked about coping with transition and change. We did an activity that had students changing the foot they wore each shoe on to see how sometimes change feels weird and makes things harder. This week we focused on organization. We went through an imaginary student's day and looked at the places he could have been more organized. The students all had interesting ideas to add to how he could adjust and get organized.

We have also gone in and observed the use of Success Maker with a group of middle school students. The program was awesome! All of the students were engaged with the learning and it seemed to be a very helpful program. The teachers showed us all of the available data that could be gathered about the students' progress which was laid out in a way that would make it very easy to see how each student is doing. It also comes with easy options for print out worksheets for the Language Arts component. This will be a great addition to look into for our program.

Next up, will be a focus on learning about Read 180 and researching grants to get technology for the school. We will also be researching more about using Project Based Learning and other best practices that might be a good fit for our students.