"It's easier to keep up than to catch up" Michelle Thomas

This week is an important week in the classroom as students are learning routines that will serve them well all year long. But I don't have a class of my own, I provide academic support to students. So what do those of us who provide academic support do this week?

We test students! We want to know who is going to have to do the very hard job of playing catch-up so that we can figure out how to best help them and we want to find out who is going to need support to stay caught up so that they don't fall behind. Really we're figuring out what our job is for the first semester, finding out where kids are and planning paths for them to get where they need to be. Next comes the very difficult job of scheduling so that we can provide students the help and support they need.