Promise+into+Practice

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Discussion
Share your thoughts and ideas about the **Promise into Practice** presentation below. Here's our essential question: What can we take from the presentation into our classroom? (Add your name to the end of your thoughts as a written record of your participation.)


 * In the district being discussed, students had to pass an 8th grade test in order to start 9th grade English (McKay)
 * Embrace the fact that literacy involves more than just reading books (McKay)
 * Use multiple resources to accomplish a task (Beauregard & Emrich)
 * Combine the writing with the new medias…don’t just let it go (Hill)
 * No mention of how to grade and critique the outputs (Beauregard)
 * Address the multiple literacy modes from day 1 of the semester. (Snyder)
 * New technologies kids are exposed to outside the classroom will help low-level students who typically struggle in traditional classrooms. By the way, these students may not believe they are as skilled as the top tier kids. (Snyder)
 * Can we pair up kids of differing technology skill levels to work to raise the game of everyone? (Bolen)