Kathleen's RISPE Blog

  Social Cultural Foundations To blog or not to blog...why is it technology capabilities have advanced the way we get our messages to our students but the practices have not kept up. Some of our structures are 20th Century, it's like having a GPS on a model T Ford. As I reflect on my career over the past 33 years it amazes me how I've moved from a plan book to Google Classroom. I welcome these advances and enjoy incorporating them into my classroom routines and culture. Flexible seating, station rotation, and circle time are practices that provide a space for communication amongst students which is so very important for our MLL's. Building a sense of community and belonging is paramount, where all students from different backgrounds come together, where every voice is heard.  This leads me to the first of the Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy, Joint Productive Activity (JBA), indicator 3, states arrange classroom seating to accommodate students' individual and gr...