Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Whitman ES District Capacity
District: Tulsa Public Schools
Instructional Strategies:
1. 150 minutes of reading comprehension daily K‐3 rd Grade
2. 90 minutes of uninterrupted reading comprehension 4 th ‐6 th Grade
3. CARE: Children Achieving Reading Excellence
‣ All students in grades K ‐2 nd participate in whole group phonemic
blends of words and word parts with the goal of students becoming better readers and writers.
‣ Lessons are delivered daily for 45 minutes each morning and consist of decoding, auditory
practice, vowel discrimination, and spelling dictation.
4. Gradual release of responsibility: I Do (Direct Instruction), WE do (Guided Instruction), You Do
(Collaborative Learning) and (Independent Practice)
I Do roles of students: actively listen, take notes, ask for clarification, We Do roles of students: Ask and respond
to question, work with teacher and classmates, complete process alongside each other: You Do roles of
students: share outcomes with students, complete skill in small groups, reflect on learning and why it is
important, work alone, rely on notes, activities, classroom learning to complete assignment, and take
responsibility for outcome (rubric of classroom assessment).
5. Thinking Maps
‣ Circle Map (Introduced on October 25, 2011)
‣ Bubble Map (Introduced on November 30, 2011)
‣ Double Bubble Map (Introduced December 5, 2011)
‣ Tree Map (introduced December 12, 2011)
‣ Brace Seeing (Introduced January 9, 2012)
‣ Flow Map (Introduced January 16, 2012)
‣ Multi‐Flow Map (Introduced January 23, 2012)
‣ Bridge Map (Introduced January 31, 2012)
We have bi‐weekly PLC’s as a staff to monitor instructional strategies, modeling done by staff and the Staff
Development Teacher of these strategies continually, and classroom walk‐throughs every other month to
ensure these strategies are being implemented and posted evidence for each.
Each site’s OSDE approved WISE plan is presented in the site additional documentation folder as evidence
supporting this criterion.
DETERMINATION OF CAPACITY BY REVIEWERS AND COMMENTS
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