A weekly/biweekly data routine for educator teams to identify students in need of extra support. This routine guides educators through choosing and testing ideas to increase students’ sense of academic belonging and to complete course work at an appropriate academic standard.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] BRITTANY PERRO: So huddle routine is an opportunity for a team of people who work together to gather and talk about students who may be top of mind for them. This could be academic concerns or behavioral concerns.
So the first thing that you’ll do once you have your team, once you have a place for you to collect your notes, is have about five minutes set aside for a human connector. In order to be focusing on students belonging in the classroom and feeling more connected to their teachers, their teachers have to role model that by being more connected together. You are going to then enter the huddle routine protocol.
You will have a rotation where the teacher who is presenting about their top of mind student. They are going to be talking without having to worry about taking notes. The first thing you’re going to do is talk about what you tried the last time you were working with this student. What is something that you did to try to improve your relationship with the student or improve the conditions for the student? That is top of mind.
CHRIS OLIVAS: Who was pretty slipping with grades before exhibition in spring break. She just– she’s really present in class and she just doesn’t hadn’t followed through. But–
BRITTANY PERRO: Then after that, you’ll go into a second minute where you start to think about what is the current concern with that student, what is top of mind, what is currently happening in the short-term right now. That is something that is making you still consider this student as your focus student.
CHRIS OLIVAS: And I want to keep it that way. We’ve been connecting a lot about just like things outside of school, that seems to be like a really good way to connect with her.
BRITTANY PERRO: After that minute, you’re going to be moving into some discussion with your team where you brainstorm together what solutions could help the student. And the great thing about working with your team is that the team may have other insights that you do not have about that student.
And then the person who is still, I guess, in that hot seat gets to think through some solutions that they want to commit to. This is where the change idea comes into play.
And so formally, we like to in our huddle, take notes on the change idea by saying, if I try this, then I hope what will happen is this. And then by the other team member taking notes, it helps to solidify that change idea.
So following that first person who goes, you move on to the next person in the huddle, and then the person who is just sharing. They get to take notes for that person, and then the huddle goes all the way around your team until the end.
A few other things I would recommend after the meeting, sending a thank you email to your team to remind them of your next steps and your change idea. And then that way, by the time you see them again the following week, they are not– they haven’t forgotten the thing that they need to do.
