Data wall kindergarten display

I was reading this article about data walls Shaming students one wall at a time and I was surprised in some ways and not surprised in other ways. Sometimes, we as teachers, do things that seem motivating but than when we take a closer look, we realize how negative it is for our students. I will admit that early in my teaching career, I used to have a chart for how my students were doing on their math facts but I abandoned it for several reasons. The main reason was that it really did not…

Use this Kindergarten Data Wall bulletin board display to track your student's goals and progress. Great visual tool to track letter sounds.

Kindergarten data wall display

Hi friends! It has been a while, don’t hate I promise once school is out and my Masters is done, I will be around more! Anywho, I posted this my Instagram and Facebook today, and got a huge response to please post about how I am doing my data wall. The state of Oklahoma said we have a new evaluation system, we went with Marzano, and he is big big big on having students track their own data. So the beginning of the year I posted this pic. And for about 13 weeks it has just looked like this…

DRA mountain? Data idea for kindergarten.

Many schools use Accelerated Reader (AR) by Renaissance Learning to monitor and encourage independent reading. If you are lucky, you have a close partnership with an AR specialist at your school who trains the staff on how to use AR and helps monitor student progress. However, many teachers who use the program do not have this support and go it alone. I am one of the lucky ones! We have a wonderful librarian at our school who makes sure our staff is trained in AR and helps provide that…

I saw this great Goal Getter display by Lessons with Laughter and knew that I had to recreate it. It was inspired by her trip to the Ron Clark Academy which I am dying to get to go to!! At least this way I could bring a little bit of RCA to me. Might I ... Read More about Goal Getters – goal setting display idea

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