Lion's Lore

Hello RLT!

RLT has experienced numerous successes over the past few weeks. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of these celebrations:

• Two National Merit Finalists
• Nominee for the Presidential Scholarship (two from each state are recognized)
• Student's film selected to be screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival
• Four students participating in the All State TMEA
• Boy's soccer combined record-- 33 wins-2 losses-2 ties
• Ten students qualified for Regionals in Swimming and Diving
• Seven choir members received Superior Ratings advancing to State Competition
• Three students qualified for Regional Meet in Wrestling
• 2nd Overall in the Winterfest German Competition
• Two students advanced to State in the PTSA Reflections contest
• Business Professionals of America Competition Team-- State Alternate Competitor

Thank you all for making a difference...GO RLT!

Instructional Tip of the Week:

We heard about great practices this week from our teachers in PD, and we want to highlight a few ideas.

"How can we share standards with students and have them discuss what they know and need to know, building lead management?"

Madira McKee gave her class 10 specific TEKS. The students worked to craft 2 quality questions about each of the TEKS. This gave the kids ownership of the discussion and focused the discussion around the "needs to know."

Nadirshah Velasquez has students write 3 "knows" and 3 "need to knows" on one side of an index card. Then, she has the students partner and share their ideas. Then, they flip the index card and come up with 2 new, original "knows" and "need to knows" that neither one had on their individual index card.


Theresa Buntain and Heather Purdue have a poster of "knows" and "need to knows" in their classroom constructed as a class at the beginning of the unit. As they progress, they change the poster and use it to review for the summative assessment.


Erin Middleton shared that the Chemistry teachers are creating a "need to know" list for students to include in their Interactive Notebooks (a great AVID strategy--ask IPC or Chemistry teachers to share more info!). The Chemistry teachers have noticed that kids are going back to the list as they progress through the unit, checking off what they know and asking questions about what they do not yet know.


Candice Teague had students draft individual "knows" and "need to knows," and then students moved to groups to create a group draft. Candice then took the group information and compiled into posters for each class period. The students gave her ideas of how they could better demonstrate their learning, and she incorporated into her lesson plans.

Have a great weekend,
Lance