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Sharing—ideas / resources
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Visit each other’s classrooms
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Share expertise
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Share ideas
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Share resources with other teachers
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Share materials
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Social Issues
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Have fun with each other
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Positive relationships
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Respect
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Respect other’s opinions
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Respect each other’s ideas and opinions
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Family Support
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Can work with diverse populations
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Support student’s life outside of school
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Support for unconventional family situations
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Support & work with parents
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Team Player
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Flexibility
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Evenly participate & share the workload
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Be a team player
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Plan with other teachers
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Team planning—multiple type of teams—cross grade team
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Follow through with agreed upon commitments
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Extending collaboration to the community
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Business organizations & resources
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Use community resources
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Collaboration—school—district—community
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Professional Demeanor
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Willingness to try new ideas & adapt to innovative changes
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Positive communication skills
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Constantly sing the praise of your school to other teachers and
community members
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Internal support
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Provide an internal support system
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Utilize possible support resources
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Volunteering
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Volunteer for school committees
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Involved with at leas 1 PTA project
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Teacher / Student attributes
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Positive behavior
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Positive reinforcement
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Clear expectations
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Nurturing
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Materials
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Effective tools
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Easy access to all materials
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Materials that adapt to individual needs
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Varied materials
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Student
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Centers with expectations
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Student centered
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Navigate
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Reaching students at all learning levels
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Meets individual needs
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Understands individual needs
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Thinking skills
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A new way of thinking
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Challenged thinkers
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Groups
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Flexible grouping
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Cooperative groups
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Partners in growth
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Work cooperatively
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Contributor
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Learning atmosphere
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Inviting
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Interesting environment
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Stimulating environment
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Engaged learning
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Empowering
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Reflection
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Many student contributions to the environment
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Told what to think or shown how to think
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Choices
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Student choice
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choices
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Motivation
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Motivation
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Do students care about learning?
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Culture
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Engagement
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Engaging
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Ownership
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Relates to life
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Reflection on activities & the day
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Promote student ownership
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Comforting environment
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Time to experiment and explore learning opportunities with students
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Make it fun
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Shared decision making
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Fosters problem solving
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Culture for learning
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Make it fun
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Group students to enhance their level of engagement
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SAI
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Assessment drives instruction
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Multiple forms of assessment
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Clear concise goals & purposes
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Student portfolios
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Aligned
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Standards
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Interdisciplinary
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Teaching Strategies
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Quality rather than quantity
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Goals stated in terms of student learning instead of student activity
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Student choice and initiative
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Encourage depth rather than breadth
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Multiple intelligences
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Adaptations
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Developmentally appropriate
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Respond to diverse needs
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Enrichment
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Hands on & minds on learning
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Written, verbal, nonverbal, & visual communication techniques
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Resources
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Knowledgeable about the range of resource to aid teaching
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Resource management
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Reflection
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Maintains high standards & expectations
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Responsible for own growth opportunities
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Recognizes the need to always learn more & do better
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Reflection with colleagues
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Continually evaluate to improve
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Personal reflection
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Reflection –what are you doing—is it working?—can
it be better?
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Trying something new long enough to make revisions & improvements
then make time to evaluate
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Modeling
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Utilize / nurture unique talents & strengths
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Role model to other teachers in actions
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Sponsor a student teacher
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Teamwork
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Committee
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Participation on teams & committees
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Meet with colleagues
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Communicates knowledge to peers
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Being on building & district committees
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Continuing education
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Continuing education
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Masters degree
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Workshops
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Professional development academy
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Continued growth
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Application in the classroom
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Implement new ideas
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PDSA’s in the classroom
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District PDSA
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Quality tools—new learnings
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Trying innovation-tempered with reason
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Keeping current
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Professional magazines & journals
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Keeping current with research & articles, etc.
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Well read
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Flexibility
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Flexibility to try new things
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Ability to be flexible & roll with the punches
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