100% That's how many students in our classroom made growth in reading from winter to spring as measured by the FAST assessment. This means that all students - whether struggling readers, on-grade level readers, or above-grade level readers - grew in their abilities. This is definitely worth celebrating! As part of our work with The Leader in Me and Standards Referenced Grading this year, our students got involved with their goal setting. This gave students ownership over what they were doing in the classroom, and a little bit of background knowledge going into "assessment season". We talked about the terms proficient and growth. We also looked at our school-wide goals for proficiency and growth and talked about what we've done in our classroom all year long to help us become better readers. When the time came for us to take the FAST assessment, we encouraged one another with "Good luck!"s and "You can do it!"s. We affirmed ourselves that "We can do hard things". We were ready to go! The encouragement and confidence among our Reader Leaders was outstanding and heart-warming. I was out of our classroom attending a training on Standards Referenced Grading, but I was getting text updates of "goals being busted!" and scores through the roof. Pictures of smiling first graders holding sticky notes were sent my way. Their smiles were so big because they knew that the work they had done this year was showing and that their goals were being met and exceeded. We were all so proud!! To celebrate, we enjoyed a dance party together the following day and talked about the goals we had achieved together. We also talked about continuing to work through our last ELEVEN (what?!) days together to grow even more before we say good-bye to first grade. First grade friends - you have made me so proud this year. I can't wait to see all you accomplish in your time at Hanawalt and beyond. -Mrs. Miller
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