Roosevelt High School Instructional Model Information for Families

Roosevelt High School was awarded a substantial School Improvement Grant in 2009. With this grant comes a commitment to transform the culture of learning here at school. Part of this effort to improve includes defining the instructional framework that all teachers use to help your student achieve. This instructional framework includes the following:

Ask your student what his/her learning targets are for each class. Your student should be able to tell you the targets, what he or she will have to do or show to reach those targets, and progress made so far in reaching those targets.

• Feedback: To help students meet learning targets, teachers give students multiple opportunities to succeed. One way they do this is to provide feedback on student work in time for students to revise their work for a grade. Once students have received this feedback (either verbal or written), students will know what they need to do to improve.

Ask your student about the feedback he or she is receiving and how he or she is using that feedback to make progress.

• Engaging and rigorous classroom instruction: All teachers are committed to helping all their students reach the learning targets. They do this by planning lessons that build knowledge and skills over time, first offering lots of help, and then, gradually, allowing students to do the hard work on their own. In this way, education is a lot like constructing a building, scaffolding is put up to enable workers to get to higher levels. Once the higher levels are built, the scaffolding is taken away. Each lesson includes reading, writing and discussion.

Ask your student what he or she has been reading, writing and discussing in each class Ð and your studentÕs thoughts and opinions about what he or she has been reading, writing and discussing.

This instructional framework is based on a large body of research on instruction and assessment (see below for key references). Every teacher at Roosevelt High School is committed to using this instructional framework to teach. However, teaching in this way is hard work. To help teachers use the framework, Roosevelt High School has provided coaches to work with teachers in all subject areas. These coaches, along with the administrative team, provide professional development, observe in classes, and give feedback to improve teaching and learning.

Would you like to learn more about the ideas and research that inform the instructional framework? Check out these references:

Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction
by Robert J. Marzano

Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom
by Connie Moss and Susan Brookhart

Focus: Elevating the Essentials
by Mike Schmoker

So What Do They Really Know? Assessment that Informs Teaching and Learning
by Cris Tovani

  

 

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U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

 

Multnomah County Town Hall

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

 

6:00 pm

 

Roosevelt High School

Cafeteria

 

6941 N. Central Street

 

 Portland, OR 97203

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Bring your issues, questions, and suggestions.

 

Please join us!

http://www.merkley.senate.gov

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African History Celebration Night
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Time: 6-8:30p
location: Cafeteria
special performances by: De la Salle Choir, Greater Bethesda Ensemble, Hakim & Young African Drummers, RHS Students, World Stage Theater, and more
Speaker: Tony Hopson SEI
"Soul Food night"

 

  

 

 

Nike Greene

Family & Community Support Coordinator

Head Girls Varsity Basketball Coach

Roosevelt High School

503.916.5260 Ext. 71432

ngreene@pps.net

 

"Bridging the Gap between families, Schools, and Community."

 

 

 

 

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Roosevelt High School's
Opening Act Theatre Company
presents

HAIRSPRAY
the Broadway Musical

Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Whitman and Marc Shaiman
Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters


PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Friday, March 2, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Saturday, March 3, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Thursday, March 8, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Friday, March 9, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Saturday, March 10, 2012
7:00 P.M.

Location:
Roosevelt High School Auditorium
6941 N. Central St.
Auditorium entrance off of Ida St. near the truck loading zone, up the stairs to lobby doors.

HAIRSPRAY will delight you by sweeping you away to 1960s Baltimore, where the '50s are out -- and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair? Come see the show and find out!

HAIRSPRAY teaches us not to judge a book by its cover and instead to not only accept people for who they are, but also to accept ourselves. Our cast is proud to be multi-ethnic representing students from a wide range of cultures and countries.

Please note: This production is a fundraiser for the Roosevelt HS Theatre Department. Thank you for supporting educational theatre at RHS!

To purchase tickets CLICK HERE!

 

HAIRSPRAY is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019, Phone: 212-541-4684, Fax: 212-397-4684, www.MTIShows.com.

 

Jo Strom Lane
Theatre Arts Teacher
Troupe #7289 Director
Auditorium Manager
Roosevelt High School
6941 N. Central St.
Portland OR 97203
503.916.5260 ext. 71424
www.roosevelttheatre.org

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

 

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