As far as time management researching goes, this is what's put to practice.

Jenny created a weekly planning guide to help her advocacy with time management. Lisa is being more intentional and more structured in her advocacy by displaying the time allowance for each student activity like work on tracking grades, checking edmodo and assignments, etc... Grades need to be above C in classes. If nothing to do, free time.

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On a very different note, we are conversing about mistakes. We need to make mistakes or maybe purposefully make mistakes for students to point it up. Have them investigate and that's the power and process of learning.

Sharing our Inventory Results

Lisa, Willie, and Jenny both used the study skill inventory in one or more classes to see where our students are at in those study skills.

Lisa addressed that her results are invalid since she sensed her kiddos probably do not understand what each statement means.

Willie and Jenny both shared that their students noted struggling across the time scheduling, concentration, listening and note taking, exams, reading, and writing skills.

We are unsure of what we can do with this. We do want to work with study skills - just don't know where to start.

Here's what we're going to do now. We're going to research about different strategies of time management and staying focus to help our students.

WH questions / Narrowing our focus, maybe?

I shared a document that I created about "WH" questions with our PLC. Here is the weblink to the file in case if someone wants it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kf17w96fkqjxcf/WH%20Question%20Words%20and%20Functions.docx?m

I indicated that anything italicize and colored red means that these types of question and functions are found and used in ACT testing. Teachers can use this to help establish test questions in their classrooms. Students will be able to learn the types of functions in questions and define an appropriate answer when it comes to study skills and ACT testing. We discussed that some students do struggle with learning the functions of questions. This document may help.

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Narrowing our focus:

We discussed that perhaps we need to target one thing as our focus. Willie brought up these three things earlier this school year to ensure that our focus will produce these following:

1. Ensure that students learn
2. Culture of collaboration
3. Focus of results

We are considering using a study skills inventory for our classrooms to see what study skill needs for each student. That way we can see where to start to produce good results!