S'COOL: Ways to Solve the Time Problem

Elementary Example

Terri Bakke-Schultz, a 6th grade teacher at Madison Elementary in Washington state reports:

"[I} was able to spend the first few weeks of school teaching "S'COOL" and getting the students going on observations. They are managing it on their own now. S'COOL Observers is one of our classroom jobs that kids can pick each month. There are three observers. When I get the schedule for the satellites I figure out which overpasses we will be able to observe. Mainly we're able to do AQUA observations because the TERRA ones are primarily before lunch and that's when students are in reading. We have a building-wide reading program and no one is allowed to pull kids out of reading class for any reason. In the afternoons they are able to go out of math or L.A. class to do the observations. They just quietly get up, pick up the clipboards with the S'COOL observer nametags (these function as their hall passes), and go out onto the playground to do the observation. They are back a few minutes later, and they go directly back to one of the student computers and file the observation report. It works well..."

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S'COOL What to Observe Report Form Glossary