Strategies+for+HS+Differentiation

=@https://sites.google.com/site/differentiationatwashburn/=

Megan O'Reilly Ruth Thorsgaard-Stokes Amy Knowlen
 * Members:**

Washburn High School
 * Site:**

To create a website for staff to access to find out more information on differentiation. Website will include information on why differentiation is important, data supporting differentiation, specific strategies to use in the classroom, and examples of student work.
 * Plan:**

Start making resource pool (website). || Continue collecting data and making resource pool. Begin sharing resources and strategies with teachers. || Share resources and strategies with teachers, model and survey success of strategies in the classroom. || Complete website. Compile data from surveys. ||
 * Calendar:**
 * March ||  April  ||  May  ||  June  ||
 * Introduce project at staff meetings and start collecting data (specific strategies, observations, coaching).

The website has been created, and information and strategies have been uploaded. []
 * April Update:**

Members have continually met and shared ideas about the plan. Because of time restraints and other commitments, two members have decided to not be a part of our learning circle and we are down to only three members. We have decided to focus on collecting and adding strategies and student artifacts to the website, rather than explain the reasoning behind providing differentiation.
 * May Update:**

I sent a link of our website to the principals and other lead teachers at my school to introduce them to our website and to get feedback from them. We are waiting on feedback, and in the mean time cleaning up our website to make it presentable, adding photos, and organizing our information.
 * June Update:**

We have compiled all of our information into a Google Site. To see our final project displaying different strategies to use for differentiation, click on the following link: =@https://sites.google.com/site/differentiationatwashburn/=
 * Final Project:**