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North Tahoe School highlights districtwide push for academic discourse
Summary
Teachers and students at North Tahoe School described classroom structures—Socratic seminars, sentence frames, paired recordings—used to build students' academic speaking, listening and writing. Board members praised the student-centered approach during a Feb. 5 Tahoe Truckee Unified School District board meeting.
North Tahoe School principal Chadlyn Dean told the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District board on Feb. 5 that the school has refocused classroom practice on structured academic talk to improve students' reading, writing, speaking and thinking.
"The reason why we started to focus on this, we were invited actually to a grant that was the Gates Foundation in cooperation with Stanford University about identifying root cause," Principal Chadlyn Dean said, describing early work to identify how opportunities for academic language affect learning. "Teachers then started to move on to sentence frames to get better access, making sure that kids could look back and refer to text or task in order to bring alive their words."
The school showcased a range of routines teachers said have become regular practice:…
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