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my favorite thing about coming to

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school is learning new

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things every day when you're reading and you're stuck

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on a road um he he we

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sounded out slowly we

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work on multiplications

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a division friendship

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that's what it called I love school

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so it's

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a chance to collaborate and we get to like dive deeper into

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artiques into what our students are actually showing

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and you get a lot of good information from it

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know you get to see the data you get to see how my kids also

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scored this way or we also had the same struggles we're

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coming up with Solutions like if we don't feel good about

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our data what are we going to do about it or if we do feel good about

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our data we can share ideas of how we got there

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and it's a lot more collaborative that way because

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if we're not just sitting and getting it's actually like working

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out ideas and making sure that we're doing what's

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best for the kids for example we had

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to pick an essential tea for Math and so we focused on addition

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and subtraction and we felt like that's just a

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foundational skill that you start with at any grade level

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and build up and last year we kind of knew that

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but going into PLC this year we were

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able to figure out why so talking to each

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other helped us really realize they're missing these steps

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they have these gaps in these numbers maybe

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they're not so so great in math but it's a

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reading problems so we can turn that around and focus more

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on reading to help them better succeed and vice versa

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it's important to just

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go in with an open mind and be able to hear

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you know even veteran teachers like I've been doing this 8

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years I know I don't know everything someone with left

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experience might have a better idea than I do so it's just going

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in with that mindset and being able to listen to it and

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respect it we have learned to

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trust ourselves but we've also learned to trust

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each other that there's never a moment where

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we're like haha you know mine's better or I did better

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whatever it's how are we all going to move

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forward with all of our kids and that

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that's been a game changer because it doesn't feel

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like you're on like little Islands

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it really helps you to motivate you to be a better person to

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be a better teacher and to learn from each other