
Results from Three
Years of Common Planning

Grass Lake Community Schools
899 S. Union Street, Grass Lake, Michigan 49240
Dena A. Dardzinski, Superintendent (517)
522-8491
SOME RESULTS FROM THREE YEARS OF COMMON PLANNING
Professional Development Activities
- Study and application of the NINE COMMON PRINCIPLES (Coalition
of Essential Schools)
- Development of Grade Level Guides
- Course Syllabus
- North Central Accreditation
- School Improvement
- Grant Writing
- Guidelines for professional conference attendance/reporting
back to colleagues
- Adoption of the CORE PLUS Integrated Math program
- Expansion of team teaching and inclusion practices
- Socratic Seminars
- Movement from junior high concept to middle school format
- Student Planners in grades 6-12
- Integrated activities student store
- PRIDE
- Pioneer School Days - lengthy multi-grade/multi-subject project
- Multicultural all-school project
- Service Learning
- Block Scheduling
- American Studies Block (American Lit/History)
- Senior Exhibitions
- Multiple Intelligence
- Continuous Learning classrooms
- Weekly Elementary "Celebration of Learning" assemblies
- March Madness - integrated subject unity using the NCAA playoff
format
- Foxfire
- Violence Prevention
- Discipline issues
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- Michigan Educational Assessment Program/High School Proficiency
Tests
- Critical Friends Network (CES)
- Discussions based on professional articles/books
- District-wide curriculum studies
- Grade level work
- Team teaching work
- District Student Expectations
- Portfolio Guidelines
- Etc. - the above items are just a sampling of many benefits
of Common Planning
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