ASCEND, Education for Change Public Schools

1. Multi-Age Community Time
and Guided Reading
Presented by Jayson Welden,
Kate Snyder, and Nicole Medina

2. Multi-Age Community Time
What is Community Time?
78 1st-3rd grade students join together in one
classroom every morning for 20-30 minutes to
participate in social-emotional learning activities
with 3 teachers and 2 teacher residents.
They perform skits on our Core Values in their multi-age tribes.

3. As a result, students build new and lasting bonds across grades.

4. Multi-Age Community Time
How has Community Time impacted the life of a student?
Students have a greater sense of community as they play with peers across grades and work with teachers from different gradelevels.

5. Multi-Age Community Time
Where do we go from here?
We plan to teach about goal setting and build in Accountabilibuddies.

6. Multi-Age Guided Reading
What is Multi-Age Guided Reading?
Data is triangulated across three grade levels
and students are grouped into targeted small
groups for guided reading. Students move
through 3 classrooms to receive guided reading
instruction and complete their Literacy Work
Plans. CAL Teacher Residents and our literacy
specialists pull extra intervention groups, so the
student: teacher ratio can be as low as 10:1
during this block.

7. Multi-Age Guided Reading - Voice and Choice
What do students think of
building their own work
plans?
Click the video to hear first and
second grad students share their
thoughts on making their own work
plans.

8. Multi-Age Guided Reading
Where do we go from here?
-Goal Setting work in Community Time -
Refine Work Plans