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I want to help students understand how to read and write in and with academic language.

 * I am going to give the students opportunities to interact with different forms of academic language.
 * present students with different questions stems, charts and maps to familiarize themselves with academic language.

I want to students understand choice and recognize how the learn best.

 * Give students options

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
Expanding Frustrating Reemerging re-configuring teaching today
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Destination Postcard: I am looking going to focus on student ownership. I want student to become their own advocate and drive their learning. Name:
 * Campus:Spring Forest Middle School
 * Grade Level(s): 7th Grade
 * Discipline: Texas History
 * Topic: Student Ownership
 * Focus Question: How do I focus kids on how to be their own advocate and drive their learning?

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? My journey is more of a researcher. I found I was constantly revisiting my goal and transitioning it into a form that made reflected my goal.
 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?
 * I am no longer focused on problem solving and I am now focused on student ownership. I am more process not product based.
 * How to I battle student apathy in relationship to student ownership?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * How to use technology in a fun but meaningful way that excites the students and breaks the apathy. Especially when the students are not very tech savvy.

As a researcher: What are you measuring? > What does your data suggest? Organization and buy-in are very important. As a learner:
 * What patterns are surfacing? Organization and buy-in are very important.
 * What themes are emerging? Organization and buy-in are very important.
 * In what way(s) has your professional perception been expanded? I am learning that I need to stick and believe in my philosophy. I started out with an idea on student learning being about the process and not the product. I have over the past few years abandon that idea because of the huge amount of pressure to teach a lot of objectives in a tested subject.
 * How are you allowing yourself and your authentic, real, professional learning to be 'seen'? yes
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'? allowing myself to try new things and make mistakes and find new ways to solve the problem.
 * How do you define vulnerability in the context of our work? Yes, I found that when you are doing things different then other teachers you are critiqued by others. I have learned to stand my ground. What about this process makes you feel vulnerable?
 * What strategies are you using through this process that might benefit your students as well? I have found that breaking down a process into small pieces it was easier for them to solve it. Over time they were able to stick their chucks together and stream line the problem solving process.
 * What **//a-ha!//** moments, or elements of a 'spiritual awakening'/'breakdown' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?

What story is unfolding from your research?
 * I have been doing a lot of action research and have found failure to be the norm. I learn more from the adjustment and the "fix" then I thought I would.
 * I have also changed my focus of this study as my thought process has changed,

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