In March the entire Lassiter staff has been through a training session on Rigor and how to utilize it in your classroom. This training was in response to one of the areas that the GAPSS team mentioned that was needed to increase student engagement and achievement. A new page has been added to the SIP blog for all things rigorous! Take the time to review the power point used in the training and also to read the articles from Educational Leadership that were used for the basis of this presentation.
Remember, students need lots of opportunities to practice and experience using their own thinking skills within their lives and especially in school. The more we honor their thinking process and the more we give them practice to develop those higher level thinking skills, the more they will flourish as independent and successful adults in a world that they will create and maintain for us when we sit in those rocking chairs later on.
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