Grouping: first impression

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Although, Janet has 5 groups there is not a balance within the groups. She has an idea as to where the students are in terms of reading, their demographics but not an idea as to how to handle the grouping where it will best help all of the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Knowing where the students are in reading, the information is good, but there needs to be a balance within the groups. The student groups need to be changed where there is a mixture of all of the students so that some of the stronger students can help the weaker students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I would assume that the students in the higher reading groups receive help reading at home or are read to. This is not the case in he lower reading groups. I would also assume that the parents of the lower reading group students either don't value education or don't feel they are adequate enough to help their child at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is probably thinking that there will be a problem integrating the white students with the black and latin students. All of the white, students being in the highest group, may begin to generalize their class groups with society.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She lacks diversity skills.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	They are incorrect.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Her struggling students appear to be the Latinos and African Americans.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet should group her students heterogeneously, she will find out that students learn well from each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	After reading this case, I have made assumptions about the students in Janet's class. The students seem to be split up between white and minority. The minority students are automatically put in the lower levels of the class, and because of that, they are not motivated to do well. It seems like they have very little to no encouragement at home to succeed.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	After reading this case, I have made assumptions about Janet. Janet seems like a teacher who really wants her students to succeed. She definitely knows that there is a problem in her class, but she does not know exactly how to handle the problem. When children of minority are put in the lowest level groups, and these group levels are known to all of the students, it is an issue. The minority children of the lower levels feel like they are inferior to the white children in the higher levels, which in turn gives them no motivation to succeed. I think that Janet did the right thing by speaking to the literacy coach and getting advice. The students' needs are incredibly important, so she needs to explore the best option for building her class community and raising all of their reading levels.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

After reading this case, I have made assumptions about the students in Janet's class. The students seem to be split up between white and minority. The minority students are automatically put in the lower levels of the class, and because of that, they are not motivated to do well. It seems like they have very little to no encouragement at home to succeed.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

After reading this case, I have made assumptions about Janet. Janet seems like a teacher who really wants her students to succeed. She definitely knows that there is a problem in her class, but she does not know exactly how to handle the problem. When children of minority are put in the lowest level groups, and these group levels are known to all of the students, it is an issue. The minority children of the lower levels feel like they are inferior to the white children in the higher levels, which in turn gives them no motivation to succeed. I think that Janet did the right thing by speaking to the literacy coach and getting advice. The students' needs are incredibly important, so she needs to explore the best option for building her class community and raising all of their reading levels.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Based on what I have read about Janet's class, one assumption is based primarily on race. From what I saw in Janet's grouping, I could see that all of her white students (male and female) were all in her fluent readers group while the rest of her students were either early fluent readers, transitional readers, emergent readers, or early emergent readers. The assumption that I made what that the white students must come from families where there is a lot of support and resources available to those students while those in the lower groups must come from backgrounds that does not have the same resources to support education. The chart provided indicates that the motivation to read varies among the students and I feel like the will to read is initially supported by the family; the motivation to read ultimately effects the willingness to learn. While I know that this is an assumption and not necessarily true, this is an issue that is talked about today. I think if there were white students in the lower reading groups, I would have made the same assumptions about the students as well. I do not like making these assumptions but I am sure that my thoughts would change if I was actually able to meet with these students and get to know where they come from.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	One assumption that I made about Janet and her decision in this case was that she truly believed that she was making the right decisions in her groups initially. I do not think she realized that her higher achieving students were all from one ethnicity while her lower achieving students were minorities. She looked at her students and each individual ability level and made a decision of how to make the groups. I believe she did not recognize that differences of ethnicities until this point but I believe it was something that she needed to know. By recognizing this, I believe she will be able to look at her students' backgrounds and see the differences. She will be able to get them the support that they need. Again, this is an assumption that I am making about the students' backgrounds but I truly believe that Janet could benefit her teaching. She can bring up this issue and then take action.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Based on what I have read about Janet's class, one assumption is based primarily on race. From what I saw in Janet's grouping, I could see that all of her white students (male and female) were all in her fluent readers group while the rest of her students were either early fluent readers, transitional readers, emergent readers, or early emergent readers. The assumption that I made what that the white students must come from families where there is a lot of support and resources available to those students while those in the lower groups must come from backgrounds that does not have the same resources to support education. The chart provided indicates that the motivation to read varies among the students and I feel like the will to read is initially supported by the family; the motivation to read ultimately effects the willingness to learn. While I know that this is an assumption and not necessarily true, this is an issue that is talked about today. I think if there were white students in the lower reading groups, I would have made the same assumptions about the students as well. I do not like making these assumptions but I am sure that my thoughts would change if I was actually able to meet with these students and get to know where they come from.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

One assumption that I made about Janet and her decision in this case was that she truly believed that she was making the right decisions in her groups initially. I do not think she realized that her higher achieving students were all from one ethnicity while her lower achieving students were minorities. She looked at her students and each individual ability level and made a decision of how to make the groups. I believe she did not recognize that differences of ethnicities until this point but I believe it was something that she needed to know. By recognizing this, I believe she will be able to look at her students' backgrounds and see the differences. She will be able to get them the support that they need. Again, this is an assumption that I am making about the students' backgrounds but I truly believe that Janet could benefit her teaching. She can bring up this issue and then take action.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that she has a very diverse group, and with that being said, must be very careful how she groups the students. I think that she is grouping her students by race, and with more students of color, she threw the remander of them in with the Latino students. This will never work! She is just reaffirming how many of her students likely feel. Split by race, and all the white students getting to work together, and the rest falling where they may. Those white students are likely middle or at least, upper lower class students, and somewhat of a home life, and possibly someone who works with them some. This grouping will not work and will likely make for even lower learning out of her under-achieving students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She does not have a very good understanding of how literacy groups must work to be successful. By grouping the students in this way, she is only helping those white students who are fluent learners, and pushing the two lower groups farther down on the learning curve. This grouping will likely do nothing to help the schools ayp, and might even lower it since the bottom group will likely fall even further behind the others. She is sending a very strong signal to the groups that she expects the top group to do more, and learn more, while the lower group will become discouraged at knowing they will never be able to climb from the lower level. I think she should do more research on her own and figure out exactly how a literacy group needs to formed and see the help of the literacy coach, and administration to help develop a plan for the groups. Asking questions is a good thing, and I myself seek the advice and quidence of fellow teachers and my administration. It is a lot easier to ask first rather than make mistakes and have to fix a even larger problem now.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I think that she has a very diverse group, and with that being said, must be very careful how she groups the students. I think that she is grouping her students by race, and with more students of color, she threw the remander of them in with the Latino students. This will never work! She is just reaffirming how many of her students likely feel. Split by race, and all the white students getting to work together, and the rest falling where they may. Those white students are likely middle or at least, upper lower class students, and somewhat of a home life, and possibly someone who works with them some. This grouping will not work and will likely make for even lower learning out of her under-achieving students.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

She does not have a very good understanding of how literacy groups must work to be successful. By grouping the students in this way, she is only helping those white students who are fluent learners, and pushing the two lower groups farther down on the learning curve. This grouping will likely do nothing to help the schools ayp, and might even lower it since the bottom group will likely fall even further behind the others. She is sending a very strong signal to the groups that she expects the top group to do more, and learn more, while the lower group will become discouraged at knowing they will never be able to climb from the lower level. I think she should do more research on her own and figure out exactly how a literacy group needs to formed and see the help of the literacy coach, and administration to help develop a plan for the groups. Asking questions is a good thing, and I myself seek the advice and quidence of fellow teachers and my administration. It is a lot easier to ask first rather than make mistakes and have to fix a even larger problem now.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It is difficult to make assumptions w3ithout more information. As it stands, they are looking at the benchmark score for the students across the grade level Though to arbitraratryly assign a student to a group by race or ethnecity is wrong, it may be they way the score fall. You also have to look at the problems that can be present across cultural lines which can be caused by "gang mentality" and be prepared to deal with it. There may have to be more small groups or one -on-one intervention. Yes, AYP is important but many have lost track of the fact that all students are individuals in omre than one way (Test scores) for a child to succeed in reading all aspects of their lives must be addressed.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I aqssume she is taking the advise of the reading coach to heart and trying to do the best she can with the situation. I also feel that she does not really believe it will work as she see how her students gravitate to those like themselves. I feel she is doubtful that she can help them cross this barrier.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

It is difficult to make assumptions w3ithout more information. As it stands, they are looking at the benchmark score for the students across the grade level Though to arbitraratryly assign a student to a group by race or ethnecity is wrong, it may be they way the score fall. You also have to look at the problems that can be present across cultural lines which can be caused by "gang mentality" and be prepared to deal with it. There may have to be more small groups or one -on-one intervention. Yes, AYP is important but many have lost track of the fact that all students are individuals in omre than one way (Test scores) for a child to succeed in reading all aspects of their lives must be addressed.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

I aqssume she is taking the advise of the reading coach to heart and trying to do the best she can with the situation. I also feel that she does not really believe it will work as she see how her students gravitate to those like themselves. I feel she is doubtful that she can help them cross this barrier.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think it seems that Janet's class is very diverse. I think that it must be a challenge to teach the students because not only are they diverse in their races, but they are different in their levels of reading. In addition to this, some of them are English Language Learners which would be hard because they may not always understand. The students different reading levels also may have an impact on how the other students view each other. For example, since the fluent readers are all white, they may think of their fellow classmates as not as smart as them and will stereotype them in the future. For this reason, I think that something should be done about the groups.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is very confused about what to do because the school's literacy coach told her to just split the students up by reading level, however in doing that, she also split them up by their race. I think that she was right when she noticed the problem because, even though the groups were done by reading level, they appear as though they were made according to race and ethnicity. The most important thing is to try and help the students improve their reading fluency so I understand the literacy coach telling her to just make them by reading level, however in this case, something should be done about the fact that the groups don't balance out racially.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I think it seems that Janet's class is very diverse. I think that it must be a challenge to teach the students because not only are they diverse in their races, but they are different in their levels of reading. In addition to this, some of them are English Language Learners which would be hard because they may not always understand. The students different reading levels also may have an impact on how the other students view each other. For example, since the fluent readers are all white, they may think of their fellow classmates as not as smart as them and will stereotype them in the future. For this reason, I think that something should be done about the groups.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

I think that Janet is very confused about what to do because the school's literacy coach told her to just split the students up by reading level, however in doing that, she also split them up by their race. I think that she was right when she noticed the problem because, even though the groups were done by reading level, they appear as though they were made according to race and ethnicity. The most important thing is to try and help the students improve their reading fluency so I understand the literacy coach telling her to just make them by reading level, however in this case, something should be done about the fact that the groups don't balance out racially.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that Janet's class is full of students who have the same potential, which is irrelevant, in my opinion. I think that all students should be given the same opportunities, regardless of their "potential". Also, we don't know what their home lives are like. Do their parents encourage and attempt to help their reading abilities by becoming involved?
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I don't know exactly how Janet made her decision to group the students or what method she followed, but I understand her reasoning. It may seem logical to group the students based on their apparent reading comprehension levels, but this is not an exact indicator of how well the students may do in reading. Did her decision also include any element of how well the students would do when encouraged and assisted in reading. I tend to think that students should be grouped by a sort of "balanced grouping" form. This allows other students to be an assistance to the struggling students and maybe allow them to explain the material in a different light. Although this may be a good strategy, it is not perfect. As Gigi pointed out, this may lead to some types of racist thinking or ostracism, but there is no way to know exactly how it will turn out...

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I am assuming that Janet's class is full of students who have the same potential, which is irrelevant, in my opinion. I think that all students should be given the same opportunities, regardless of their "potential". Also, we don't know what their home lives are like. Do their parents encourage and attempt to help their reading abilities by becoming involved?

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

I don't know exactly how Janet made her decision to group the students or what method she followed, but I understand her reasoning. It may seem logical to group the students based on their apparent reading comprehension levels, but this is not an exact indicator of how well the students may do in reading. Did her decision also include any element of how well the students would do when encouraged and assisted in reading. I tend to think that students should be grouped by a sort of "balanced grouping" form. This allows other students to be an assistance to the struggling students and maybe allow them to explain the material in a different light. Although this may be a good strategy, it is not perfect. As Gigi pointed out, this may lead to some types of racist thinking or ostracism, but there is no way to know exactly how it will turn out...

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	There is a vast difference among the reading levels in her classrooms. Grouping according to levels can be hard because the students will realize what level they are in and begin to become self fullfilling prophecies.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is worried about the bias and stereotypes associated with grouping according to levels.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	by putting all of the Struggling readers together they don't hear good reading
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	she doesn't understand grouping

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I feel that Janet may have her grouping a little off. She should mix them up to help each other but not so much where they are a hindrance to each other.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel that she is doing the right thing, wondering about the way she has them grouped.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's students are grouped by race more than anything.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet in trying to make decisions for the class grouping. She just needs to keep working.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am confused. I am thinking that these are the groups Janet formed AFTER talking to the reading coach. In that case, she did as she was told and the groups were formed using the data. It was alarming at first because the groups looked just like the students she described.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assumed that she formed the groups based on the data.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	T The majority of her students are struggling readers for whatever reason. More than likely the students are lacking prerequisites for the first grade. Her students need intervention in and outside of the classroom.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	As for as her reading groups, I think her groups might be acceptable, but she needs small group instruction that will consist of different levels of students. This will eliminate groups being narrowed down to just race, gender, and ability.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It is obvious that majority of the students are having a hard time with reading fluently. From the broken down chart it seems that they white students are all proficient in their reading levels and have not had any flaws in their academic development. Also it seems that majority of the black students are dispersed on the bottom levels of their progress toward reading fluently while the Latino students are at the Emergent reading levels. From this data I am assuming that the minority students are struggling a lot more than their white counterparts.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Although grouping the students based on the benchmark data might have seemed to Janet like the best or easier way to group the students. I personally feel that she was not thinking efficiently. Benchmark testings are nothing but answering questions. The more efficient way of grouping the students was giving the students oral reading tests and grouping the students that way. I almost positive the correlation would have produced different results.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

It is obvious that majority of the students are having a hard time with reading fluently. From the broken down chart it seems that they white students are all proficient in their reading levels and have not had any flaws in their academic development. Also it seems that majority of the black students are dispersed on the bottom levels of their progress toward reading fluently while the Latino students are at the Emergent reading levels. From this data I am assuming that the minority students are struggling a lot more than their white counterparts.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

Although grouping the students based on the benchmark data might have seemed to Janet like the best or easier way to group the students. I personally feel that she was not thinking efficiently. Benchmark testings are nothing but answering questions. The more efficient way of grouping the students was giving the students oral reading tests and grouping the students that way. I almost positive the correlation would have produced different results.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Looking at Janet's groupings she clearly is worried about having the lower groups so heavily populated with students on latino or black backgrounds. Given the additional background information (students who are getting English language support, those who are on meal plans to supplement etc.) these students have additional hurdles to making strides in towards the AYP. These are concerns that will have an impact on the students growth.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The main assumption is that she is concerned primarily with supporting her students and not approaching her grouping based from a racially baised point of view.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Looking at Janet's groupings she clearly is worried about having the lower groups so heavily populated with students on latino or black backgrounds. Given the additional background information (students who are getting English language support, those who are on meal plans to supplement etc.) these students have additional hurdles to making strides in towards the AYP. These are concerns that will have an impact on the students growth.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

The main assumption is that she is concerned primarily with supporting her students and not approaching her grouping based from a racially baised point of view.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Not knowing the students' history in their previous classes, it is hard to see if the reasons they don't know the alphabet has something to with their previous education or limited resources at home. The classroom is a very diverse group of kids and maybe that is a good thing. Janet could use the diversity to her advantage by letting the students learn from each other.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I don't think she should group her students by their reading skills and ethnicity. I think it would be better if they were mixed together according to their reading skills so that they could learn from each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first assumptions on Janet's students are that this is lower socio-economic school and that the multicultural needs of the students are creating difficulties. There is a high number of African, Latino, and white students, so there is a demanding need for various cultural literature and for studying of cultural backgrounds to understand how to fit the learning styles of these students. I also wonder about the parental support at home and at school. These students may not get help with reading outside of the school setting.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	My first impressions of Janet's grouping was that with the lower levels isolated together, she can work at their level and at their pace. She can use methods and strategies that fit their isolated needs. While the levels do seem to be based on race, she has the advantage of using literacy materials and learning styles from that culture. I also believe that if the students were in groups at mixed levels, students would still notice the students that are at a much higher level than they are and might be intimated.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

My first assumptions on Janet's students are that this is lower socio-economic school and that the multicultural needs of the students are creating difficulties. There is a high number of African, Latino, and white students, so there is a demanding need for various cultural literature and for studying of cultural backgrounds to understand how to fit the learning styles of these students. I also wonder about the parental support at home and at school. These students may not get help with reading outside of the school setting.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

My first impressions of Janet's grouping was that with the lower levels isolated together, she can work at their level and at their pace. She can use methods and strategies that fit their isolated needs. While the levels do seem to be based on race, she has the advantage of using literacy materials and learning styles from that culture. I also believe that if the students were in groups at mixed levels, students would still notice the students that are at a much higher level than they are and might be intimated.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It appears that the case can be interpeted a racist grouping.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I wonder how and how much time she put into choosing her groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions I am making about the students in Janet's class is that obviously it is very diverse not only amongst race and ethnicity but also amongst how intellectually the students are. There seems to be a wide range of students excelling in reading which are average to above average students and then students students who fall pretty low on the spectum since English may not be their language and they are lacking the basic skills.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The assumptions I am making about Janet and her decision in this case is that I feel like she is under a lot of pressure to have all her students excel and is trying to meet her AYP but is struggling with it. She is grouping her students by their reading abilties as the literacy coach said to do, but is noticing that when she grouped them, the finalizing of the groups are clustering the students by ethnicity and race. Overall, she needs to improve her students reading performances and I believe she is confused if grouping them in this specific order would be the right thing to do.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

My assumptions I am making about the students in Janet's class is that obviously it is very diverse not only amongst race and ethnicity but also amongst how intellectually the students are. There seems to be a wide range of students excelling in reading which are average to above average students and then students students who fall pretty low on the spectum since English may not be their language and they are lacking the basic skills.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

The assumptions I am making about Janet and her decision in this case is that I feel like she is under a lot of pressure to have all her students excel and is trying to meet her AYP but is struggling with it. She is grouping her students by their reading abilties as the literacy coach said to do, but is noticing that when she grouped them, the finalizing of the groups are clustering the students by ethnicity and race. Overall, she needs to improve her students reading performances and I believe she is confused if grouping them in this specific order would be the right thing to do.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet is not taking into account the diversity that comes in grouping of a class with students with reading problems.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	good idea but it needs to be researched a little bit more to make sure that the groups that she is putting together are to help and not hinder.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The lower students are the ones with socioeconomic disadvantages. Maybe the test was biased.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet my use mixed grouping to a certain extent. Find her strudents strengths.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first assumption is although she is using Benchmark testing....she may need to differentiate the groups with different levels of students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	n/a

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It could be assumed that the white students in Janet's class had successful reading experiences in Kindergarten. The data also leads one to assume that Black and Latino students performed poorly on the benchmark due to economic and language issues.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet understands that grouping is a complex task must take into consideration many factors. Like most teachers, she uses data to inform her decisions. However, she seems to realize using data alone to group students is not satisfactory.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that because of the diversity of the class, that each student in each group/diversity is on a different reading level than the others.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that because of the diversity of the class, Janet is stuggling with how she should mix up each reading group so that all the students can help each other and succeed.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She needs to break down the last group into 2 smaller groups. She should try peer pairing to help the lower level readers as well.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She should try mixed ability groups as well as same level groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is an energized teacher that is on a venture to learn all she can to properly serve her students
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I can only assume that Janet is a novice teacher, and make great effort to enhance her abilities to serve her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

My first assumption of course is the minorities are in the bottom percent of literacy, is it because of the lack of resources they do no have at home or is there other factors. Also her groups in literacy should be based on the performance ability, however when doing other activities then other groupings based on race need to be incorporated. It seems there is a problem with the minority population in literacy and steps need to be administered in order for achievement to rise. It is critical at this age for literacy skills to be achieved because they continue to build on this skills and if they do not get them now they will continue to struggle throughout their education.

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I feel that Janet first needs to look at the scores as they are and not as a race issue. Develop her groups according to the scores. It is vital for students to build the basic skills early on then struggle with it year after year. By grouping them by performance will allow her to focus on their skills and build them together for better achievement. There will be other opportunities for her to group them for a more balanced population. Now is the time to focus on their needs and if race factors into why they are struggling then address this factor but not make assumptions because of their race.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

As a first year teacher, having been moved from kindergarten to first grade, I know that children progress at different levels and at different times. The students in Janet's class have progressed through kindergarten at different speeds due to so many outlying factors. Some of the obvious differences especially in reading levels may be due to parental involvement and how well the parents are able to relate information back to their students as a form of at home remediation.

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Her decisions are solely based on data. I think she should take some time to explore personalities and figure out how those higher level readers can serve as peer tutors to those lower level readers. I have found that heterogeneous groups in a typical classroom tend to favor the lower students and serve as motivation for the higher students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that all of these students have a parent or guardian at home that speaks English. I would also like to know what kinds of materials she is utilizing in her reading program. Since her students are a diverse group, she should make sure that she is culturally diverse materials in her reading program. Melanie, teacher
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am wondering if Janet is using only one measure to group these students. I don't feel like one measure or one type of measure should be used to group students. I like the flexible type of grouping where the students are allowed to move amongst the groups depending on the skill being taught. Melanie, teacher

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At a quick glance, I noticed that most of Janet's students that were performing well was of one race. Which looks as if the other ethnicities seemed to be struggling. When grouping these students, no success would come about when you group students of the same level. Some one needs to be able to understand and carry out the expectations within the group. She might want to try another test and see how well they do on it.

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The assumptions I made from the data shown, white students out performed the blacks and latino students. The blacks may have come from poor living conditions as for the latino their may be a language barrier.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The class is very diverse in the cultural aspect, but follows many of the stereotypes seen in minority groups in accordance with reading levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet appears to have grouped the students only according to reading level, failing to consider the issue of the grouping, which is that certain minority groups are placed together in the groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the students who are in the lowest group have not received the prerequesite skills necessary to be a proficient reader. I do not feel that the students were grouped unfairly.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is utlizing the data per her literacy leader's directive. She desires to help her students in a waay that works for her.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

The white students are all considered the highest readers in the class, more than likely due to more parent support, they may even had more preschool options. The Latino students would have more of a language delay if they were ELL. Just because they are Latino does not mean that they do not understand English. The black students showed a range of different levels. Again parent support and preschool education play a factor on a child's development.

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I believe that Janet has fallen into the trap that so many teachers fall into, using only one piece of data to determine placement. She needs to look at several different types of data to properly place students. I believe that it is easier to help students with like needs, but it is also important to allow students to benefit from their peers. Sometimes, they will listen and learn from their peers better than an adult.

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These students are likely familiar with the students in their group as they have probably been grouped like this previously. They probably could have formed these groups on their own if we had asked them to put the "smartest" kids together-this is a shame. My assumptions about this group are that the white students were exposed to "formal" schooling at an earlier age and have mastered the social context of the classroom setting which has allowed them to move further ahead academically.

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I think that Janet's grouping makes sense in that she is anticipating diferentiating her instruction and will need to focus on different skills with the different groups but I wonder what her groups would look like if the assessment was skills based rather than reading level.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That she has a wide range of abilities. She has high and low readers
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is making her decision based on data as she was taught. She is trying to follow others advice.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My thought is that the literacy coach made the decision based only on the the scores. He did not take into account who could benefit from who for reasons other than a score. The score is one piece of information. The teacher knows the students beyond their score and so is better equipped to group the students for success.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She knows her students very well and can make decisions about their learning group based on the whole person and their relationships with their peers.

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I believe that the students in this case are actually very diverse. Not only are the students in Janet's class racially diverse but they are also very diverse with their reading levels, their homelife/ backgrounds etc. I believe that the students of different races have grown up and have been around only others of the same race as they are because like Janet mentioned, they tend to stick to being around the students of the same race as they are. I obviously believe that it is important to have a strong sense of community in the classroom and therefore that the students be comfortable around and friends with everyone in their class and not have segregated groups by race, this is not how our world works and therefore should not be how this classroom works.

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I believe that although Janet did base her reading groups on the students ability that the groups are too segregated by race. I understand the importance of grouping by ability in order to both motivate the students on the lower levels and the students on the higher levels however, I do believe that in some cases when students are paired with students of different levels, they are able to help each other, work together and therefore in many cases learn more then they would have in groups of students of just their ability. In addition, by doing this, this gives students the chance to get closer and to form bonds with other students the the classroom that they may not have done on a regular basis. I do understand Janets thinking and the reason she came up with the decisions that she did, however I do believe that the segragation could cause bad vibes and segregation in the classroom community.

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Janet's class is clearly extremely diverse, both ethnically and otherwise. These kids are at measurably different levels academically, making it difficult for Janet to give each of her students the personalized attention they need. Many of these students are ESL (English as a Second Language) learners, so many of their skills including reading and writing are not at the expected first grade level. The language barrier between these students not only prevents them from effectively learning in the classroom, but it also hinders their ability to learn from one another and work together in order to gain knowledge and understanding.

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I do believe that this specific situation is new to Janet and that a great deal of responsibility has been placed on her to see to it that her students succeed. With that said, I don't necessarily agree with the way that Janet chose to group her students. First, the majority of these groups are racially segregated which can easily negatively affect the classroom atmosphere as a whole. Also, I question how much previous knowledge Janet has on each of her students, because she doesn't seem to be placing them based upon level and ability but rather benchmark data. I don't think teachers can always rely on data to structure their classrooms, seeing that each situation is different from the next.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the lower students are the students of race and non-english speaking students. I also assume that home life factors in to these children's performance. It also seems as if Janet has not attempted grouping in her classroom before.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It sounds as thought Janet's heart is in the right place and that she needs to think about the ways in which she can help her students. With the need to meet AYP, she will need to structure her small groups in a way she can reach out to each child.

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I have notice that at least half of Janet's students are reading at the lowest reading level. By looking at her groups, I am assuming that the students that are having difficulty with their reading skills, are probably not getting the help at home. The statistics showed that all of her students were participating in after-school programs, and some of the students are not really motivated to read. The students have not had the opportunity at their homes to learn how to read, which is why they are struggling in school.

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She is only grouping her students based on their minority. She is also grouping her students based on their ability level. If she wants success in her program, she needs to group different abiility levels together.

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Based on how Janet has chosen to group the student I would assume that the white children in her class are the most advanced and progressive group of students while the latino and black students in her class are the ones who struggle the most with literacy. I would also assume that because these two minority groups are struggling they must come from more difficult backgrounds than the white students. They may be lower SES students, or possibly at-risk students for one reason or another.These assumptions come from the data given about group #5 and the fact that most of the students in the lower literacy categories are minority group students.

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I assume that while Janet is trying to do what she is being asked to accomplish, she does not fully understand the best way to following the guidelines. I think that someone needs to explain to Janet that it would be more beneficial to diversify her students not only by race and gender, but by reading comprehension levels, so that her students can benefit from each other, both in study and social behavior.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Her class may be in an area undergoing gentrification. The kids who are scoring low might not come from supportive homes or are lacking foundational skills. The high scoring kids probably have more money, support, and may have a more literature rich home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It seems like a young teacher mistake- it probably was well intentioned.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I feel as though, give this data, that her white students tend to perform higher. I do not necessarily believe that this has to mean they get grouped by ability levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am a firm believer in students helping students. In these groups I think that Janet is second guessing her students' ability to teach each other. With more diverse groups (racially and by reading level) I think it would make more sense to help raise scores.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I have hot been given enough information about the students to make any assumptions.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I was not given enough information about benchmarks results to make any assumptions. I don't believe 5 reading groups is a workable solution.

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The scenario brings up the students' financial backgrounds and living situations. It also discusses race and speaking difficulties among the Latinos. The students are struggling with reading, at it seems that the teachers are quick to jump to the conclusion that there is a direct correlation between socioeconomic status and classroom performance. This is true a lot of the time, but it is important to keep in mind that a student with a poor family is able to still be a strong reader. Regardless of the students' races and financial backgrounds, I agree with the literacy coach that the teachers shouldn't be necessarily focused on why certain students are struggling, but rather on what they can do right now in order to help the students improve.

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I am assuming that Janet will group the students together based on their reading skills. She will group students of similar ability together. This isn't a good idea, however, because when forming small groups, it is important to group together students with different abilities. This is beneficial because the students who are more advanced will be able to help out with the students who are struggling.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I am assuming that reading proficiency levels are positively correlated with socioeconomic status. Because of the statements of many of the other teachers, the free lunch statistics and their enrollment in after-school programs, I am assuming that the members of group 5 are of lower socioeconomic status than those of group 1. I am also assuming that the higher proficiency level of those in group 1 is due to more exposure and practice at home, more educated parents and a more intellectually enriching home environment, all of which are also tied to economics and class.

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I am assuming that Janet is taking on this endeavour from an objective position and with the best interests of her students at hand. I am assuming that Janet is sensitive to issues of race, particularly because of how her homogenous groupings made her uncomfortable. I am assuming that she will be motivated by the academic success of her students when making decisions.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumption is that the students, as a whole, require more assistance to learn to read than in a typical class. Janet has noted/tested, and found lower skills levels than is the norm.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet is assuming that she should group according to reading levels, period. That is why she noted something was "wrong."

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I know that Janet has to get her students' performance in reading up; but I'm not sure she knows how to do so.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume Janet needs to take more time accommodating for individual differences. I believe that Janet can better help her students as a result.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students are grouped acording to their similarities. These kids are probably grouped in a manner to avoid conflict.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel that she is making a good decision. Having diverse groups will not only eliminate discomforts among the students, but it will allow them to learn from each other.

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It is a very diverse and interesting group of students. She will definitely have to learn how to differentiate instruction to maximize her time in the classroom on a daily basis.

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I understand that she grouped them by ability level. However, if she does not break group #5 into a smaller group she will only push those students further behind. They obviously need more one on one time with somebody. She would definitely need to bring in or solicit help from parents or community members to work with the last group so they can grow during this school year which is one of the most important years in their lives.

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Based on the information, I see Janet's students to be victims of their race and social-economic status. They are at an educational disadvantage by who they are. As the teacher, Janet sees the students are not helping themselves improve their learning by associating solely with those like themselves.

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Janet sees that the groups she developed only enhance the racial and social-economic barriers already established. I agree with her thought that the grouping are not in the best interest of helping the students to learn and achieve higher scores. I can see her breaking the #5 group into two groups and addressing their needs with more one on one time and then regroup the students for other activities where they get to interact with students of each of the other groups for peer learning.

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It shows that all of the white students appear to be the highest readers, however this could be due to more parent support and more preschool options. The Latino students were shown to be lower readers, but only two were ELL, so most of them should have a understanding of English. The Black students were shown with some high and some low readers. Again, I believe that parent support and early education plays an important role in language development.

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I think that it becomes difficult for Janet because she can see that her students that are in the highest levels are all white and she does not want to group them together because then she would be reinforcing the racial division.I think that possibly the white students have a better SES than the Black or Latino students, which tends to provide them with a stronger support system at home.

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I feel that it is not always a great decision to group students based solely on their achievement level. I think that students from different levels are able to help one another out. I think that the teachers need to stop labeling their students because then you set those kids up for failure. I think that grouping sudents by level is difficult when all of her students are at a different level and need personalized attention.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet is confuse on where to start which is understandable. Because her group is so diverse, it is hard to make a judgement call. Janet will have to try grouping students according to her observation and assessements. After a couple of weeks, Janet would probably have to regroup.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet shouldn't second guess herself, but monitor and observe and than do regrouping as necessary.

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I try never to make assumptions about children I don't know.

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Janet is grouping her students for guided reading groups based on their reading level, which is what she theoretically should be doing. It is very awkward that all of her white students are in the highest reading group, but if she's going to teach students by matching texts to their reading levels, she has to group them by reading level, regardless of race and socioeconomic status. It appears as though she's trying hard to create a community otherwise, and trying hard to have all of her students interact with each other, so I think that as long as she's always doing that outside of guided reading groups, theoretically it would be ok. She'd really have to have her guided reading groups be fluent though, so that students wouldn't think she were grouping them by race. This would mean a lot more assessment to be sure she was moving kids up as their reading improved. This is really tricky. We know that matching texts to kids is the most important way to get kids reading and succeeding, but in this case, I don't know if it's worth risking creating racial tensions and perceptions of inequities to do it. I wonder if you could use leveled texts that were at multiple levels to create diverse ability groups who would read conceptually the same story, written at different reading levels.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I believe this group in Janet's class is at similar reading level. Janet may be thinking of race and financial background status of the students but she can help them all improve at the same time.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She has to follow what the coach is telling her. She needs to find a way of making it work. Teachers have to be learn to teach different level students within the classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Based on the summary of Janet's class and her groupings, she does seem to have a very diverse group of students. It appears that she has a group of white students that come from very educated families and have been exposed to basic skills before reaching the classroom. It also looks like she has a group of students that are limited in english proficiency and/or come from undereducated and less well off families.

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Janet is simply trying to do what is best for her students by grouping according to their ability level. Personally, I think this is the best way to group students in situations such as this one. If you don't group students based on their ability, you are not challenging your students appropriately.

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I am assuming that Janet's class is more urban than rural due to the reference of "apartment kids". The minority (African Americans) is the majority in her classroom and they prefer to spend time with their "own kind". She had to start the year with creating a class community but I don't believe the children recognize this in October. They need time to trust and build relationships.

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Another assumption I perceive is that the system for which she works is not paying attention to the individual needs of the school's culture but is only producing a giant umbrella to fix all the problems. Poor Janet. She doesn't see yet that she can't use the district's mandates for every reader. I fear that she is going to put all "weaknesses" in a group rather than cross them so there's strength in each group.

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Based on the reading groups, it looks as though all white students in Janet's class are the only "good" or "fluent" readers. It also appears that all Latino students in the class are struggling readers with the most difficulty. Basically, the grouping for this class is very stereotypical and it seems to be based on assumptions that the students meet the stereotypes for their genders and ethnic backgrounds.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

It certainly looks as if Janet has used a prescribed method of choosing reading groups that has led to segregation by race. From the information given, I don't believe that Janet did this intentionally, but probably used some sort of assessment tool to determine what level the readers were at in the classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Hers is a challenging class with some students who seem to have come with skills they need and many with few skills...at least skills that are valued on the reading assessment.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She has no easy answers. Reading levels are what they are; however, perhaps mixing groups by similar but not steadfast reading levels where students with different backgrounds can benefit from each other would make more sense and make for a more diverse class in the long run.

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I do not like the segregation that is occurring with her reading groups. The top reading group is composed of only white students. The lower reading groups are all black and Latino students. I think these kind of things can contribute to a negative self image for young students, especially when the "smarter" kids are always in the same groups.

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I think this initial grouping will not yield many positive results. The upper level students might show some improvements but I doubt the other reading groups will. I am a firm believer that students not only learn from the teacher but also from the other students. I think by putting the lower readers in groups together they will struggle and become frustrated and bored. This will cause them to give up and become less motivated to improve their reading skills.

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It looks likes that her strongest readers are white female and that her weakest students are black males. I guess the first assumption I am making is just like some others is what are the home lives of students like that are struggles. I am assuming I guess that the Latino and black students are struggling due to their family ecomic status. I

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It looks to me like she just grouping all the good students with the good students and the struggling readers with the struggling reading. She is not giving her students a good enough diversity to let them learn from each other. We do need to keep in mind what our students have in common but we also need to embrace their differences so they can learn from one another. I think she need split the students up in more diverse groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She assumes that the student's can't learn based on these results, instead of brainstorming ideas that will help improve their reading levels. Yolanda, 2nd grade teacher
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	My impression is that she does not feel that the students can learn. She is grouping them in a way where they are designed to fail. Yolanda, 2nd grade teacher

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I thought grouping kids on the same level would work out, but Grouping kids with similar interest benefit the students. This made the kids more interested on what they were discussing and having fun doing it.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Many of her students may be from a minority group, low income families, they may not have had much teaching before they entered Kindergarten.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	If Janet is going to group them by children from poor homes, children who do not speak English, children who struggle with basic skills, etc. she is setting them up to fail. Janet believes that they will not make much progress.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think the students who are reading better probably have more support at home, whereas the lower scoring students probably have less support. Additionally, some of the lower readers are ELL, which means they aren't lower intellectually, but they are having to learn two languages simultaneously, which slows them down.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has made a good start to grouping her students, but I think she needs to take it further and create groups of students including some from each category - making equal groups therefore no one gets singled out as the "slow" reader, etc. This way the students can all learn from each other and help on another succeed.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet's class will be grouped along racial lines if she follows the literacy coach's suggestion. I believe that Janaet understands that this will increase stereo types in her classroom.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe that Janet will look closely at who will fit into other groups and still expereience success.

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The 1st thing I noticed was that the fluent readers were all white children, mostly girls. And the students struggling the most are some of the black boys and half of her Latino children. I think their reading problems are more closely related to ethnicity and environment rather than the ability to learn.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

I know that there is a lot of controversy over grouping children with different levels of ability. However in this case I think if I were Janet I would try having groups of mixed abilities. The Latino children and some of the black children need to be given the opportunity to learn from those students who have broader experiences. Group number 5 is much too large I think by grouping with different abilities it would allow her to have smaller groups. I think she should try this for a few weeks and see if some of lower students will gain experience and rise to the expectations. If the students do not show growth soon I would reconsider my options.

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Just by looking at the data, one would assume that economic status may have something to do with the education levels of the first graders. I say this because of the comment that the other teacher made about the students being the "apartment kids". I am not sure what that means exactly but that is a very wide generaliztion.

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Im making the assumption that Janet is on the right track in her decions but she is far from finalizing it. Now that she has the data and the break down for each of her students. Now, she needs to look at the students themselves and see how they can be grouped by motivation to read or be common interests. Being able to learn from each other and being able to have different levels in the groups will make the learning that more influential.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students are group by race. The white children are better readers because it is there only language.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She should still challenge the last group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in Janet's class are very diverse and most come from low income families.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The decisions Janet has made could be taken different ways. It could be good to split the slow readers and fast readers up; but also could be good to have them all mixed in together. Who knows the best solution until they are all tested?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It seems as though janet knows that something needs to be done differently to help improve reading levels. I'm not sure how she grouped her students before this, but it seems that she is interested to see if there will be a change with her new grouping decisions.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is in a trial mode to see if the new grouping works. I think that she is interested in seeing if the new groups not only keep the kids more motivated to learn to read, but also to improve social skills and community. I think it is a good idea to have flexible grouping by skills that are being learned.

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2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think it is interesting that she is taking race and gender into account and looking at the trends. However, I think the literacy coach is correct. She needs to assess what they need and group according to those needs.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That she has a group diverse students she needs to tend to who all are struggling in her class and get the students that are on a higher reading level to help her out
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	she is making good decisions in my eyes

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Janet is struggling with what many young educators often face, and this is how best educate someone who comes from a background that does not or is not able to value education as she does. Janet may have had many opportunities as a child, is obviously college-educated and was probably a good student throughout her own student career. This is not, however, the world she has inherited to this point and is "stumped" with what to do and is more than likely second-guessing her moves in order to try and satisfy a district mandate (AYP).

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

Janet is very unsure as to what course to follow.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Teacher apparently attempt to help by grouping.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is stereotyping, not based on students ability.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet may need to rethink her strategy. Additional assessments could possible change the grouping of her students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel that Janet has her student's best interest at heart, but she needs to rethink decision.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Students are grouped by reading ability.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Hopefully, her decisions are made based on students' performance levels.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet has notice that her class is segregated with the white students performing at the top and the students of color are all in the bottom groups. She should be concern that she is feeding into these students poor image of the academic abilities.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in the group range from very low, low, average.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet has made the best decision. She is not sure though how to assemble the group and what to work on academically or where to start.

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Unfortunately, Janet's dilemma involves race/gender labeling. This is not intentional, but it does present deep issues. All of her high reading students are white and mostly girls. This could cause the other students to feel inferior to the group. Many of her Latino students are in the lower two groups, and mostly girls. The assumption can be made that these students are low readers because their English and word recognition is limited.

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I assume that Janet will try her best to rearrange the groups so that they are more diverse. However, this could increase frustrations with some students. She will need to be very careful when mingling the different groups. She must know her students and know which ones can handle a challenge and which ones tend to get frustrated and shut down very quickly.

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My first assumption of the students in Janet's class is she has students at multiple reading levels. Janet wants the students to excel in reading and is concerned with how her students are progressing in comparison to students in other classes. Janet takes the advice given to her from her principal/advisor to group students based on their reading level. When Janet does this it is obvious that the white students in her class are at much higher reading levels and the minority students are grouped much lower. By grouping the students it is obvious that the class is in default segregation.

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I feel that Janet is doing what has been asked of her, and that the racial group divide is not done intentionally. It is very sad that their is an achievement gap between the white and minority students. Although I agree that the students need to be grouped so they can learn at their reading level- I also think that Janet should consider switching up the groups from time to time so that the students won't feel that they are separated by race, and/or that they begin to label themselves as the smart kids or the dumb kids.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The class is definetely diverse in reading abilities. In order for these students to progress, parental involvement is a mnust and a well devirse insructional program for academic success.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Try to implement a diverse instructional/reading/literacy program to meet all the students diverse needs.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I assume that the students in Janet's Early Emerging Reading Group learn differently than their counterparts in the other groups. They possibly come from very diverse socio-economic and linguistic backgrounds. I assume that the emphasis on working to build those skills at home may be moved to the back-burner in place of prioritizing times for working to make money. All of the students in in this group attend after-school programs, which in effect means they are spending less time under the guidance of their parents who are more than likely part of the working class of people in this country. Also, in regards to the possibility of diverse linguistic backgrounds, while only 2 of the Latino students in this group are receiving ELL services, we don't know how many others have declined testing for services that may assist them developing these skills.

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I am not really making an assumption about her decision, as it seems data-driven. I am making an assumption that she is concerned how these groupings will affect her class community. I think it is good to know where these students stand in regard to having acquired basic skills and I think, in moderation, use of these groupings could be beneficial. However, I would encourage her to introduce the concepts in these smaller groups and jigsaw all of the groups for greater conversations on the concepts so that everyone can learn different strategies from each other. Who says that students in the other groups stand to gain no understanding from those in the Early Emergent group?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	They should be grouped according to need.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The group is so low that they have little to contribute and cannot help each other.

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The students in Janet's classroom might not have the resources at home to support their literacy acquisition. Since many of her students come from a low SES, their families might not have the resources or funds available to facilitate their children's literacy.

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Looking at her groups, I see a balance of the level of literacy with an unbalance of race. Children know their abilities. They know who is in the "smart group" and those who are not. It causes those students who are not in the elite group to feel negatively about themselves and it can significantly lower self-esteem. Further, those who are in the advanced group are likely to view themselves differently from those in the lower reading groups. If Janet hopes to help students progress in theri reading, the students must be groups heterogeneously.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I am assuming that they will respond as the hypothetical children I've learned about in my literacy classes respond. I assume they will need special help and patience and time to develop their reading skills, and I think that they are not going to get what they need, because there is little developmental diversity in their groupings.

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My assumptions are that she is not going to see as much success with this grouping as she could. She sees the need to balance by gender, and she sees the need for racial diversity, but she is grouping students by perceived ability. What I have learned is that grouping students with different abilities allows them to scaffold each other, challenge each other, and learn more efficiently and completely.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's students have many challenges facing them in order to be "successful" in the current system of accountability. With the diversity present in the class, extra care has to be taken to create community where it is safe for all students to explore, make mistakes, and try again.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet desires to be a teacher sensitive to all student needs. She is looking for guidance in how to best meet the needs of all her students. She is listening to advice but also reflecting on her knowledge of her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The way the students were grouped was primarily by their benchmark data. The downside to this is that the low scores are typically originating from the black and latino students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She made the right decision in putting the kids in groups based on their benchmark data, but obviously has other issues with her grouping. The subgroups created could potentially raise eyebrows and cause her some problems down the road.

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I think that the white students in Janet's classroom are performing at higher levels because they were exposed to learning and formal instruction earlier in life. I also feel like the language barrier with her ELL students is what causes some of the low reading levels. I feel that had Janet allowed her students to form their own groups, the groups would appear very similar. From my experience as a teacher, I have noticed that most students group themselves with students with which they feel they have the most in common. Normally, these commonalities involve race, gender, or socioeconomic status. However, I think it is our jobs as teachers to bridge the gap between these groups and encourage diversity.

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I understand what Janet is attempting to do. She want to be able to differentiate her instruction, so she can focus on those that need the most attention. I also understand her struggle with the segregation of groups. The way the students are groups definitely does not promote diversity. I feel that segregating the groups will only widen the gap. I think a lot of learning can happen with peer-to-peer teaching. Janet can mix the groups and allow students to help one another. This will not only enhance learning, but it will also promote diversity.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	According to the benchmark test scores, the Black and Latino students are lower than the White students. Janet discusses that 2 Latino students are English Language Learners, and 7 studnets are on the free and reduced meal plan at school. These students may not have the educational support at home. However, there are several other factors that can be influencing her students test scores.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet's groups clearly show segregation among her student's. In her statement, she mentions that she has been trying to create a community in her class; since she noticed that the children cluster by gender and race at recess. Her groups do not support the community she is trying to build.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that the students are willing to work hard but they just need a good teacher to help guide them. I think that having them being split into groups based on their levels and race will only discourage them and not help them reach success.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that she is making the students feel in superior to other students in the class because of the groups she broke them into. They are based on not only skill level but it seems as though the blacks are together, and same goes for latinos and whites. This makes students (especially minority students) feel as though they aren't good enough.

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I assume that the students in Janet's class are being divided by race and gender even though the benchmark results are the reason for the segregation. It appears that there may be more help from home with the white students' families. Conversely, it would seem that the black and ELL students may not have the support at home. The less supported children may have uneducated parents and language barriers to deal with at home. Poverty issues may interfere with the reading level the students have been placed in.

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Janet is obviously worried and feeling pressure to improve the results of the students' reading levels and wants to improve their reading skills. She is trying different approaches to try to relate more to the students and to get them interested in reading. It seems that she is observing her students and using the trends she sees to make more diverse reading groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	low preforming students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is not giving the kids someone to learn from.

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I assume that the students aren't getting adequate help at home which is why they struggle so much in school. It is known that students whose parents are involved do better in school. Not only is it important for them to have practice outside of school, but the cirruclum should be based on each students level of understanding and reading levels.

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I believe that Janet should be mixing the groups by levels of reading. If she has five students who exhibit understanding and she is confident that they are doing well, then she sould divide them into groups that have lower reading level children in them. By mixing thr groups, she can help the students but also she can let the students help eachother. When students have help from someone their age, they can often be more receptive to help.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the benchamark data accurately portrays the student's reading levels. In doing that I can understand why Janet grouped her students the way she did. However, if that assumption is wrong, if the benchmark scores were not an accurate measurement then this particular grouping is continuing the problem.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is trying to find a grouping method that helps her best meet each child's needs. In determing their reading levels first, she can tailor each group to the skills they are working on now.

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The students in Janets class have very little room for error while working in the reading groups she has created. The majority of her students are not native english speakers, some do not even know the alphabet, and others are behind in skill level whhich will mean that Janet has to teach nearly half of her students how to read from the very beginning stages. In a situation like Janet's one cannot help but to prepare for failure, and try to reach the students that have the greatest chance of succeeding.

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I don't feel that Janet had a broad perspective when she created her groups; she didn't tie all of the elements that needed to be addressed together. I think that if she were looking at the bigger picture rather than just the literacy scores she would have seen that heterogeneous grouping would be a better fit for her students. By grouping the students heterogeneously she can give the students opportunities to help each other learn, they are interacting with children who have different opiions and perspectives on their environment, and the students needs will still be met.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first assumptions for the students in Janet's class are that they feel like outsiders. As they mentioned earlier, this is a class with the lowest reading level Janet has seen, and they have a lot of extra help within the schools. So what I am trying to say is that I assume the students feel frustrated because they do put in a lot of work and are considered the outsiders.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet is truly trying her best to help these students with their reading skills so they do not fall behind. However, in my opinion, I think she is thinking about this in way to much detail. She is thinking about to many things; race, ethnicity, gender, and reading level. I believe see would the most success if she focused mainly on reading level and nothing else.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions are that the minorities such as the hispanic and black are behind in their scores.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is confused in why some students are excelling and some are behind.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	By reading this, I can only make the assumption that she has some struggling readers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She seems to be a novice teacher trying to group her students the best way she knows.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students who are fluent readers and seem to have the least problems are white. I assume this because they most likely grew up in English speaking countries, unlike the Latinos and blacks. The students in her class also realize their differences and group each other during lunch and recess.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is on the right track by trying to improve her student's reading skills. However, she should divide them into groups not by same level reading, but mixing and matching into groups different reading levels. This will allow the students to help each other out in their weak areas and will promote racial acceptance among them.

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I'm not really sure what assumptions I'm making. After looking at the groups that were made up initially, it seems like the latino and black students are struggling more with reading then white students. This is because the top group was completely white and the last group was only latino and black.

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I think that Janet is trying hard to make a decision that will help her students become better readers and form a classroom bond.She is struggling with these to because the students already divide themselves up based on race and gender and she wants to mix them up in reading. But she was suggested to put them together based on levels. Unforunately those levels are very similiar to the groups that she was wanting to disassembly.

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The students in Janet’s class appear to be a diverse group of students, many of whom lack the reading skills necessary to perform well on the first grade benchmark test. As described in the premise, the students tend to associate and socialize with students of the same background as themselves, thus creating divisions in the class and detracting from the efforts to build community in the classroom. From what was stated in the premise and the groups she put her students in, it does not appear that Janet is fostering a community in her classroom. The students are further segregated by race in the literacy groups, since the groups are based on ability. The high group of fluent readers is composed of the five white students in the class, isolating them from their diverse peers. Also, the lowest group, which is designated as Early Emergent Readers, is composed of eight children from lower income homes, some of which are ELL students. The isolation of the students by ability, and consequently by race, will not in my opinion foster a community in Janet’s classroom, nor help the students increase their skills. Being in a group of solely struggling readers will frustrate those students and make them feel inadequate, especially since these students are most not likely receiving the help and support they need at home. My assumption for the students in Janet’s class is that as a result of these reading groups, the students will remain segregated by their racial affiliations and will also struggle with their skills, therefore not reaching the benchmark.

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It appears that Janet has not encountered a situation such as this one in her teaching career thus far and is unfamiliar with the methods and ways to handle it. Although she is beginning to realize that perhaps that way she has grouped her students may not be the best way, I think she is confused about how to proceed from there. She had followed the advice of her literary coach to group the students according to their reading levels. Since she was unsure of how to proceed with this unfamiliar situation, I think she was right to follow the advice her literary coach provided, but she failed to understand the implications it would mean for her particular group of students. I agree with third grade teacher Gigi, who says, “…fixed, homogenous reading groups will prevent the students with different skills from learning from each other, and create a level of frustration and humiliation among the struggling readers.” I do not think that Janet realizes this, and does not know how to arrange her groups in a way to best assist her students in developing their literacy skills. She seems overall to be unfamiliar with constructing reading groups. In my opinion, her reading groups appear uneven, having certain groups with three students and others with eight, and this construct will not foster the best learning environment. I think Janet will find that she will have difficulties with the way she has grouped her students, and it will impede any efforts she implements to create a community in her classroom, as well as hinder and frustrate the students in their learning.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in group 5 are at lower reading levels because of their limited English proficiency. Once they learn English better, they will catch up.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is not considering the ELL learners.

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This is proof that when grouping students, it is vital that many different characteristics go into the process. If students are simply grouped by reading level, the segregation of minorities often occurs. Not only do the groups needs to be heterogeneous, they need to be changed often to allow students opportunities to learn from everyone in the class. Fixed grouping gives students more opportunities to learn who struggles and who strives. Although this is bound to happen regardless, we as teachers should do our best to keep this from happening.

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Like all of us, she is learning. No matter how experienced a teacher may be, we are always learning and trying to make the best possible decisions for our students while attempting to follow district standards. She is obaerving the problem and trying to fix it, which is all anyone can ask.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that the ELL children have the most difficulty because not only are they having to learn to read, they have to learn to speak and read in English.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet needs to pair higher level children with some of her struggling students. Peer tutoring will make everyone feel good.

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I think Janet has a very diverse group of students that come from a variety of backgrounds and family situations.

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I think that as teachers our number one priority is to get these children to be literate. I think Janet has grouped her children in a way that best suits them to learn at their own levels. The key word right now is "differentiation." We are supposed to teach to the individual students' needs. I think that goes beyond race. I myself wouldn't care which group my child were in as long as they were in a place where optimal learning can occur. I believe that she did that, and if I were her I would be very confident if anyone asked for reasoning behind my groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the white children are smarter than the blacks or Latinos. The reason being is that they are in the higher reading group.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe her intentions are right but she does seem a little judgmental and maybe unconsciously racists.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in the reading groups are limited. There is a glass ceiling that will prohibit significant success. Students are grouped based on strengths and weaknesses. Generally students become labled and more often than not, never overcome being placed in these groups.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet appears to find herself in a position that many teachers end up...torn between professional opinion and district mandate. Teachers are the experts in the classroom, yet often times find it difficult to balance what they feel is best for students and directives from central office. Each are perhaps equally important, but neither can completely stand alone without the other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I wonder what the benchmark test measured. I do not agree with basing small groups off of one assessment. Other measurements need to be considered. Basing the groups on students needs is very important. -Debbie, First Grade Teacher
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet will have to carefully monitor her students to make sure they are showing progress.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I don't think that it really matters who the kids are, but they need to be grouped with the people that are on the same level as them so that they can all grow together.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand that Janey wants to make sure the students are mixed by race, but sometimes its important for the students to be with the group that will help them learn the most, not in the group that will leave them in the dust.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I believe all the students are capable of learning. Some of the students may have more support at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe Janet is trying, but that she may need more assistance from a coach or mentor.

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From what the teachers stated about the students in the reading, my first assumption was that most of her lower income students or ELL students are not very successful at this level. I would assume that these students do not have much academic support in their homes and it is taking effect on their school work and skills. I say this because most families that live in apartments are usually lower SES families and tend to move around more often. This creates a household that is not very stable for the child.

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I believe that Janet is trying to create a classroom environment that is balanced between race and gender as well as their reading levels. This creates a problem for her though because what the students need to be successful does not necessarily balance the classroom's race and gender. The first thing she notices about her groups was the groups ethnicity. The white students were all grouped together, and the black and latino students were grouped together. I think she did a good job or grouping them, even though they were not balanced by race because the most important thing here is their education and being successful at their own level.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Unfortunately, it is what is seen in most inner city school. Children from homes who differ in stability, nationality, and finances are often at odds with their counterparts in the classroom.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is trying to work with the situation that has been dealt to her, as we all do. She took a look at the data that had been provided and grouped according to their needs. Grouping fell just as it does in all statistical data, down the same lines that have been recorded over the years.

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Janet grouped the students by ability. While sometimes it seems that maybe having students in the guided reading groups that are above level could help other students learn from each other. Yes, Latino students who don't know English need more help, maybe they can get this outside of school or in after school programs. Learning to speak English and doing guided reading our different things. The students need to learn the alphabet and how to speak English before they begin to be asked to read it.

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I can tell she is grouping based on ability. I do see that she is only grouping by ability. Maybe she should make guided reading groups that have one member from each group so that the levels are diverse and that lower students can learn from their peers. Also maybe she could try to divide the groups up based on what they like to read instead of just by ability. That would mix up the cultural groups and also help the students become more engaged in what they are reading.

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I think that Janet had the right idea by following the literacy coach’s suggestion of forming small groups because this will help the students receive the personalized attention they need. However, I think allow it is good that she knows the different reading levels her students are at, it may not be the best grouping method. I think that if Janet were to integrate the groups the better readers in their groups as well as Janet could help those struggling readers. I also think by having a more integrated group the classroom would gain a better sense of community and feel less divided. Also since there are ELL students in the classroom if they were associating more with the other students who already speak English it may help with their language progression.

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I am assuming that Janet has a very low performing class. This is the first time Janet has been challenged by such a culturally and academically diverse classroom. I think she has done the right thing by setting up a sense of community in her classroom. Many ELL students will tend to shy away and hope to disappear into the walls.

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Janet is not grouping students by thinking of the strengths each child brings to the classroom. She is only looking at the strengths student's exhibited on a benchmark test. Janet's grouping is eventually going to hurt the community she has set up in her classroom. Students will soon recognize who is the top performing group. Those at the bottom will loose motivation to work to their fullest. However, if she mixes her groups, she will be allowing the students to demonstrate that they are capable of doing the tasks.

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My assumptions about the students in Janet's class are 1 the class is very diverse. There are 5 groups among the girls and boys. Yet they are organized by color / origin. Ex. B/w then on to Latino etc. Why must one interrupt the class in this way? I think groups was enough for visual , but the other would be for ones on personal understanding of maybe why to they fall into these backgrounds. 2 she has more than a few categories.

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My assumption about Janet and her decisions are that they may be too detailed; in that she seems to find it nesessary to know what race they are. Along with their gender, and which group they fall into.

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I am assuming that most of the students are not receiving much support at home. Many of them probably have very little outside literacy experience to bring with them into the classroom. They may have parents who struggle with literacy themselves. I made these assumptions based simply on the fact that they are struggling so hard despite Janet's instruction. I think she has tried hard to engage her students and create a classroom community yet students are still lagging behind in their learning.

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My main thought about the case and Janet's actions so far is that I don't think grouping the students by levels will be effective in creating the community of respect that she desires. In this case, when students are grouped by ability, the highest level of students is made up of white students while the lower ability groups are made up mainly of minority students. Students are very perceptive when it comes to grouping. Despite a teachers best efforts, they quickly realize which groups are the lowest abilities and which are the highest. This creates an atmosphere of bragging and teasing and further perpetuates segregation within the classroom.

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If I assume she made these groups based soley on assessment scores, then it appears that the non white students bring a different set of skills to the table than what is being tested for. All students have some form of literacy skills, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will correlate with what the school expects them to have. Clearly the white students have the kinds of skills schools expect, but the black and latino students have a different set of skills.

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I'm assuming that Janet grouped them based on assessment scores and is thinking that even though it created a sort of unintentional segregation, that might be okay because maybe all the black children will need work in area A and all the Latino children will need work in area B.

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After reading the case study, my first impressions were that Janet has a very diverse class all with different backgrounds. I believe that socio-economic status and a person's environment can greatly affect how well that person can perform academically. I believe that the reason that many of the minority students don't know how to read as well as the white students is most likely due to their parents. Some of the students parents most likely cannot read at a high level, and many are in the working class causing them to be able to spend less time with their children. All of these factors could be some of the reasons why these students have such different levels of reading abilities.

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After reading how she chose to group her students, I could tell that she was somewhat unsure of the groups because of the different minority students all being in the lower reading groups. I personally think that the groups that she created are fine and will be the most effective for her to teach her students. Many people would disagree and say that the groups should be heterogeneous, but I think that since the reading levels of the students are at such extremes, that it would just hold the higher level students back. I agree that the higher level students might be able to help the lower level students, but I don't think that the higher level students would learn as much as they would through being in their own group. It has nothing to do with race. If a lower level student is able to improve their skills, they will move up to the next highest group. I think that having the homogeneous groups makes the most sense for this group of students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The only assumptions I can make are that minority students are struggling while the white students are excelling in her classes. It is obvious by her groupings how the hierarchy of class is laid out.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is missing the mark when it comes to grouping her students. She needs to meet with her school's counselor and/or ESL counselor to come up with a better plan.

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The students were divided into two groups. One was the higher group and the other was the lower group.And she gave both groups of students a book to read.The higher groups of students showed dimisished interest in the book and were struggling to understand the book. And the lower groups of students were also struggling with reading the book also. Both groups were having trouble with the book and it did not matter what their background or culture was.

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I did not think that Janet understands the problem of default segregation that was created by benchwork data and mant children can not associate balcks and Lation studnets with failure.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the students in Group 1 or the Fluent Readers (who are all white) come from homes where there are parents that can assist with homework and provide support on a daily basis. As you move down the line, I imagine that you go down the socioeconomic ladder and that is reflected in the reading levels of the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand how she made her groupings. She wants to group them homogeneously by reading levels so that the students can assist each other. By mixing the reading levels up, she is going to run the risk of the more efficient readers becoming bored and the lower readers becoming frustrated.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think the students are doomed for success or failure by being grouped or in other words "tracked" to the place where they belong based upon their pre determined path according to race and previous knowledge. This is only going to hurt everyone by keeping the students segregated.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is unaware of the importance of mixing groups up based upon race and skill. She seems very ignorant in her group making and very discrimatory. It is obvious she doesn't understand the harm in not challenging students by mixing them up.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I would assume that the students in Janet's class get little practice in reading at home. They are probably forced to help around the house and are being pushed to mature before they are developmentally ready.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is using only data from assessments provided by the literacy coach. Very little thinking is involved.

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I think that the students in the lowest group should be given more of a chance. It seems like Janet, and the people reading this case, have all but given up on them already before we have even started. They might be the lowest group she has ever seen, but it doesn't mean they are necessarily the slowest. They might be the most diverse but that just means that Janet needs to be more creative in her approach to meet them where they are and go up from there.

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I think that Janet's decisions to be worried about her students and their achievement is right on the money. I think as teachers our main focus is the students and what they are gaining from their experiences in our class and if we are not worried that we could be doing someing better than something is wrong. I think that we need to have our students as the main focus, as Janet does in this case, and go foward from there. I think that her decision to break up the groups this way will benefit the students in that they won't be intimidated to speak out if they have a problem because they are in a group that is made up of people closest to their skill level.

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All of the student's are in aftercare. This can be both a positive and a negative. The negative side of this would arise if they are not being tutored or completing their homework while in aftercare. Both the students and their parents will be tired when they get home and once they get some dinner, there will be little if any time for doing homework or practicing reading for 20-30 minutes. How many of the Latino parents read English? This will also affect their ability to practice reading at home. The positive for aftercare would be that there is an appropriate place for them to complete homework and practice reading skills and strategies before going home.

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Has she taken into consideration how the students with lower skills can benefit from being in a group with those with stronger reading skills?

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I am assuming that the white students in Janet's class do better in school that the Latino and black students, because that is what Janet's reading grouping data shows. I also assume that if Janet does group the kids by ability and that just so happens to also group them by race/ethnicity as well, all the students will begin to draw conclusions about the intellectual and academic abilities of students of different races. I think that the white students will feel superior and will look down upon the black and Latino students in terms of their academic capabilities, and I think the Latino and black students will feel either discriminated against or like they are not smart enough to compete with the white students.

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I think that Janet is probably very torn between the need to help her students succeed academically and the need to not create stereotypes or make some students feel inferior to other students, especially based on race. I think that Janet's intent is good- she thinks that grouping students based on reading level will better help her tailor specific activities and assignments for those kids in each group and therefore help those students perform better academically. However, I think she might be going about it in a slightly controversial way. I would hope that she wouldn't rush into anything and would seriously consider the implications of both grouping and not grouping her students according to ability.

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The students sound a great deal like students in my own class. Our demographics differ, but generally speaking, racial/ethnic identities are underrepresented in the higher-skills reading groups. Janet is attempting to group students of like abilities, thinking that she can incoporate leveled readers and other DI measures to address the different ability levels in her class. Grouping students this way, however, may not provide the best environment for her students and may end up creating a more threatening environment for groups of her students, which seems to be the opposite effect she desired.

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Again, Janet has a applaudable goal - to use testing data to group her students for more effective instruction. By seeking advice from outside sources, who may have a different perspective on the grouping as someone looking in from the outside, Janet is taking advantage of the knowledge of others around her who seem to be more cognizant of the implications her groupings would have and the negative effects it may have on reinforcing stereotypical racial divisions within her class.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the students in Janet's class already have a view on race and ethnicity. The students are already beginging to group themselves-even though they may not know they are doing it. I think we can also assume that the students in the same reading groups also would be similarly grouped when grouped by parents income.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think we can assume that this was not an easy decission for Janet. I also think that she is trying to do what is best for her studetns but she does not know exactly what that is.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet will need more professional development. I believe that Janet will have to recognize the potential to label.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet needs to examine her own belief so that she will not get stuck in the results of the data used.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is confused on how to group students equally among race, gender, and reading capabilities without favoring one over the other. Other teachers are concerned about where their students are from where their family income is and not how they can group the students in a way that benefits the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet should have brought up grouping to the other educators rather than the students reading levels. She should have asked how they grouped students in groups that were diverse in races and gender as well as grouping students in a way that will help students who are having problems reading and not slowing down students that read on a proficient level.

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After reading Janet's account of grouping and seeing the way she grouped her students based on ability, I have to agree with the before mentioned impressions on her technique. I believe that what she hasn't put into account is the potential for frustration among her students. Her grouping as it stands shows all of her White students as all Fluent readers. From there, the lower levels consist of only her Black and Latino students. Her ELL students are all grouped together as well. Like one of the critics said, this will most likely result in the students thinking that they are not as smart as the white kids, and more problems and difficulty could stem from there. If she incorporated her groups to be less homogonized then the students would be able to be dispersed more evenly across the board where no one felt frustrated or embarrassed. The higher level readers could model and assist with the lower level readers. The ELL students could be immersed in the language and could listen to the fluency of the higher levels. Creating a more heterogeneous enviroment would probably be the better route for her to take.

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I assume that Janet is not aware of the ramifications her grouping could have on the progress of her students. As I said before, she would only be causing frustration and intimidation among her students, thus setting them up not to succeed. Although she did do what she was told and grouped her students according to their level, she did not take into account other factors when grouping students.

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Janet's class is very diverse and different from one another. Many of them do not know how to read, some do not speak English, and some do not even know the alphabet. Like Kevin said Janet might be worried about her students when they are lacking the needed skills to keep up with their further advanced classmates.

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Janet's plan intial plan is good. She has the right idea about seperating the children on their needs and how advanced they are with the reading. But once you see the racial make up of each group it is very clear that another problem will arise. Children may start to associate blacks or Lantios with these problems that are presented in class. Janet seems to be getting a grip on what is wrong when she looks out into her class and notices that something is wrong. Janet should try to think of a plan that encourages the children to mingle with other races besides their own and become more profficent in reading and writing.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think Janet recognizes a problem in her class she wants to fix. She is not sure how to do this with such a culturally divers class.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume she is not sure how to teach ethnic children

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I think that Janet's class is made up of a diverse set of learners from a variety of backgrounds. I really feel that it is important to understand where your students come from as a way to adjust your teaching. I do not feel, however, that the students background should be a basis for determining the groups they will be put into. Nor do I feel that where one comes from should determine where they will end up.

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I am assuming that Janet is either a new teacher or that she has never encountered having a class this diverse before. I think that she was wise to ask others for their ideas and help rather than just trying to work things out on her own. I think that she like most of us is faced with the huge task of bringing her students abilities up with little time and limited resources. I think at the end of the day all she can do is keep trying and asking for help.

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According to the data repots or log that Janet used for grouping her students, it seems that black and or latino students have a harder time reading that white students.

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I think that Janet's intentions are well. As someone stated above, she merely wants to improve her reading levels in the school and in her class as a whole. I hope that she takes her focus off, soley, of the reading level issue and used more time to focus on helping the students, instead of helping the schools reading level. I also do not know why she decided to group the students into the five groups she used, ranging from Fluent to Early Emergent readers. Was this something that the coach offered?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She is overwhelmed and concerned the groups won't be effective due to the large numbers of cultural differences present.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming she is overwhelmed, she doesn't quite know what approach to take first. She seems to have a grasp on the grouping of her students, however, I feel the bigger issue here is how to handle the wide range of cultural differences present in her classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that the students in the class really need her help. They can't help that they come from where they come from. I think that they need extra help in the classroom. I don't know if separating them will help a lot. With the results that were toward the end, it would be a lot of racial break-up. Her colleges seem to feel that it is a burden to have the children in the classrooms.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is confused. I think that she needs more guidance on the situation because she is new to this kind of diversity. I would be confused, too. I don't think that she is very confident that her plan is going to work. I think that she cares so much about her kids that she doesn't want to hurt their feelings or make them feel bad.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in the lowest level come from a variety of backgrounds will little English, low income families, and I am assuming minor support at home possibly due to the fact that the parents speak little to no English. These students are the ones that struggle the most and make up the largest group in her reading levels but they need the most support right now.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	First, I wonder what she based these groups on. Did she use some sort of reading inventory or formal observations? I often base my reading groups on ability and reading level as well so I do not fault her for doing so.

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I am assuming that group #5 will actually need to be much smaller, as she has a range of specific needs that are emerging. Many of those students, if not all, will need to be met with individually as well as in small groups. I feel that she wouldn't be able to reach them otherwise.

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I am assuming that she solely based her grouping on data and did not use race to bias her choices. However she is generalizing the areas instead of isolating specific skills. For instance, she could have a group that would focus on the strategy of chunking - and that could apply to a range of reading levels. I don't think that her groups are necessarily bad, as long as she doesn't always use this method for grouping.

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I am assuming that the white students in Janet's class are probably from more affluent and involved homes than the Latino and African American students. This could explain the difference in performance of the different groups. I figure the lower level Latino students are probably those who struggle the most with learning English, perhaps they have recently moved to the US.

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I think that Janet has done what a lot of teachers assume to be the correct way to group. I think she has a feeling, but doesn't know how to handle it, that the way she has grouped is improper. I think she knows that it is going to look like she has grouped her students racially, since the highest performing group is all white students. It seems to me that Janet seems uncomfortable with this grouping, but doesn't quite know how to group them otherwise.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	race has nothing to do with the problem
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	needs to reevaluate

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She is unaware of the lack of decent educational opportunities many minority students receive.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She needs to look at the bias and disparities in education when dealing with minorities.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It looks like the students are being grouped by ability level and that is segregating the class by race and by socioeconomic level.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janets decisions appear to be based on what the test results indicate and might not be taking individual children's needs in mind.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is very diverse, not just in their reading ability. I assume that most of the students in the class are more concerned about other things in their life than reading. There are probably some students that love to read, but the majority of the students are in the bottom half, as far as ability is concerned, and students usually don't like to do things they are not good at.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think it is going to take some creativity to group these students so that they will all improve. How much can a group of students with the lowest reading ability be able to improve when they only have a few skills to work with? Janet needs to re-evaluate how she has her students grouped.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students were grouped according to the benchmark data which ended up being similar across cultural lines. The students are at similar levels to help in instruction but she needs to be aware of any potential labeling which might come from the current arrangement.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I can see the students learning from the instruction that would be geared to what they all need best as indicated from the data. She is worried about the cultural/racial overtones that might be taken based on where the various students ended up in groups.

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From looking at the groups that Janet has created, you can see that the groups that are struggling readers are the minority students. I feel that the students do not have the best home life and they do not get much extra help at home, nor do they have the best resources to use at home. Therefore they are struggling with reading. These students may not have parents who can help them at home and they may not have books that they are able to read at home either. Their parents may not have had a higher education so they do not push their kids to do their best. Therefore these students may not have much motivation to succeed in school, which will put them in the lower achieving students group.

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I think that Janet created the groups by their achievement levels, but once she created them she realized how the students were being separated. She realized they were being separated by race and possibly socioeconomic status of their parents. Which means that the black and latino students are associated with failure, while the white students are associated with sucess (which is racist). She also thinks that by separating the students like this they will not benefit from this grouping. They will not benefit because the lower-achieving students and non-English speaking students are all in one group so they will not have anyone to learn off of. Also the higher readers are all in one group so they will not be able to help anyone become a better reader. She might think that by mixing them all up into five random groups that then the struggling readers can benefit from the higher readers.

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It is obvious that the students in Janet's class need improvements in their reading skills, based on the benchmark results. These students, like all students, deserve to be taught based on their abilities. In my opinion it is best to group the students according to the test results. This may not be the most heterogeneous grouping but it will best serve the students. This will give each of them the greatest opportunity for improvement, despite how the groups look in terms of ethnicity and gender.

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In classrooms today it is a top priority that students feel a sense of belonging to the classroom community. In taking this in to account Janet must realize that this doesn't supersede learning. Right now, in my opinion, Janet's decisions are based upon making sure that all grouping and learning is done in an environment where students have learned to embrace diversity. Noticing her student's continual habits to gather based on ethnicity she feels she is not accomplishing this goal. These types of biases have to be placed to the side when learning comes in to play. Janet should take the groups as they are and as improvements begin to show then think about regrouping

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"By looking at the grouping, I assume that the white students may have more advantages than the other students. They may have more help at home and exposed to an English print environment. They may read more and understand the English Language. The Black and Latino students' dialect may affect their fluency also."

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I understand Janet wanting to group her students according to Benchmark Data, but I believe she needs to consider other needs of the students also. It does look a little discriminating, although it may not have been not intended. The students can benefit from learning from each other. Grouping may need to be reconsidered, so that there is not such a noticeable racial difference. She can plan strategies within those groups to work on the student's individual skills.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think the kids that are in Janet's class having trouble with the content that is being taught in the class. Along with misgrouping it could be misteaching. Obviously it is a diverse class and with that it must be diverse teaching. I think the students have came from challenged plus different backgrounds which is causing the style of learning to be different.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think grouping the students could be a good idea. It allows them to be around others of the same and different characteristics. As well as feed off others energy in the group. Grouping by gender or race will be beneficial in the learning process.

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My first assumption is that if Janet suspects a problem, she is probably right. Going back to the actual benchmark, or a continuum of skills, Janet would be able to more accurately group the children based upon the needed skills. Janet should also remember the art of flexible skill grouping. Once a child has mastered one skill they should move on to another group to work on a new concept. I would assume that these students in the E E R group do not have much support at home for their educational growth, but this does not mean that the child cannot be motivated to learn an excel. Application of mastered skills, will provide Janet with the data needed to further drive instruction. -CBell, 1st grade teacher

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My assumption of Janet is that she understands the first steps in meeting the children's needs contained in her class. She has taken the first step and is already self-reflecting on the grouping. I feel that Janet should continue with her plan of action and use data from the benchmarks to further drive instruction. -CBell, 1st grade teacher

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students Janet's class come from a diverse background. The students may very well know the information, but the amount of information is the question.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet and her colleagues are stereotyping the students because the live in apartments. They seem to believe that students lack knowledge because of where they are from.

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I believe Janet has a real desire to help her students and that she is consciencously aware that she has a very diverse classroom environment, this is a positive observation. But when I look at the chart I'm incline to agree with Gigi, one of the third grade teachers,concerning the default segregation; in that it would appear that the white students are more on the correct learning path and are to be successful, and the latino and blacks are expected to fail. Because the grouping identifys their race and also their gender we then are lead to assume that these children will fail and they will more than likely be the cause of a great deal of disruption in the class this is assumed inpart from the stereotypes found in society associated with these races and the male gender also. Communication is key and when children have difficulty reading they become insecure, with insecurity comes withdrawal, with withdrawal comes lack of participation and thereby failure.

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I can only assume that she is looking at the cultural environment that exist that is a matter of fact, and searching for ways to teach using the methods that will be an advantage to each child. When doing so she has divised a method that identifies race and gender more so than ability and capabiltiy, or strenghts and weaknesses. Grouping by capability and ability will allow Janet to use peer tutoring as a key to increase comprehension and performance. Thereby forgoing gender or race.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It seems that she has so many children who are struggling that are either black or latino.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am worried for her. I do not think that grouping will be the best way to help these students, according to her way of grouping. I think that she will realize this though and come up with another way.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The groups are divided by race, and the lowest groups tend to have the most students in them.
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Maybe these students aren't getting proper home support for their reading. Also they may come from poor homes where they don't speak English at home which could affect their reading comprehension. I also think that a lot of these students may be coming from a home where they don't support educations and don't require their kids to get degrees.

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I think it was smart for her to discuss with her colleagues about what they may be going through in their own classes but I think her class may consist of different kids with different backgrounds. I think it is wise of her to ask the literacy coach about groups because I do think that their reading level should determine their group and it shouldn't be what we think it should be based on ability.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that Janet’s students are more than one benchmark assessment.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming the Janet is trying to please the administration by creating this groups based on just benchmark data. I think that she also needs to look at other informal and formal assessments.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Her students will need to be grouped in diverse culturally settings to ensure all students will participate and learn from each other.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is trying to help her students but struggles with her personal feeling about the students' learning environment.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming the benchmark data is providing reliable information for grouping students. However, if the benchmark data is not an accurate assessment then dividing groups based soley on those scores could be a mistake.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is trying to help students by grouping them in a way that allows her to best tailor her teaching strategies to the needs of the students. She does seem to notice that by using the benchmark scores to determine her grouping, she also winds up grouping students by racial differences as well.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet needs to keep working with untilshe finds a plan that will work for class.I think that
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The assumptions are that the students that are black and latino are not going to succeed, so group the students that are gonna help the AYP! Guided reading groups are a great way for small group instruction, but don't be afraid to re-evaluate and re-organize these groups for success off ALL students.
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One can assume that there are many low functioning students in this class who struggle in all academic areas. This is a very difficult mix of students, becasue as the teacher we are responsible to meet the needs of all our students. While there are very below basic learners in this class, there are also fluent readers. While we automatically look at the below level students and see that they obviously need instructional support and intervention, there are fluent readers in this class who also deserve and need to be challenged, stimultated, and motivated. One must wonder how each of these students view themselves within this population of students.

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I believe that janet genuinely cares about her students succeeding. She also wants to feel that as the teacher she is doing her job and doing it "well." We all want that. She feels at a loss as to what to do, and I think that many teachers feel that way. Truly, most teachers teaching reading don't have any specialized reading instruction, and there are many different ideas and opinions that get thrown out there in terms of what the teachers should be doing in class to meet the needs of his/her students. She is doing the best with what she knows, but she really doens't know what to do here. She doesn't know what will work, and while her internal sense is telling her that her groupings will not work,she doesn't know exactly how to make the necessary adjustments to ensure that all of her students feel success. If she is the only teacher in that room and recieving no support, it makes it all the more difficult. Truthfully, this is a very tough group to manage on one's own - support is needed here!! A teacher is only one person, and while we can plan great lessons and ideal groupings, this group has so many students in need of help that she many feel a constant sense of failure and frustration in trying to get her students to succeed. Where is the support here? Is there support?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Latino and Blacks scored lower on assessments. She has all of the students grouped together. THe whites are all together and in a higher level then the African American and Latino students are also grouped together
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That she is thinking it is best to group like students with like students. This is not always the best. Sometimes grouping students with a high and a low is beneficial because the higher scoring student can sometimes help a lower scoring student. Same with cultural differences as well

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	her students have diverse needs and need to be paired/grouped according to strengths and weaknesses
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	the grouping will lead to little improvement unless she spreads out the strengths and weaknesses

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is a mixture of emergent readers to fluent readers with whites, blacks, and latinos. Many students have lower reading level, problems with language,come from a low economic background and do not have much parental help at home. Janet's students assessment scores, students with free breakfast and lunch and language problems show that her student have problems.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet grouped her students by their reading levels which ended up separating the students by their race. Janet does not like this grouping because it will cause a division in her class by race. For her class to succeed the students need to work together for them to achieve progressive. Students need to help each other.

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After reading through the initial case and looking at the breakdown of group #5, I have found myself making some initial impressions of my own. Looking at the data I see that the highest achieving readers are the white females which lead me to believe that these students are the brightest and smartest in the class. On the opposite side of the spectrum we see the students who represent group number five and have students who are barley reading, are all Latino or black, and yet are all the same age as the four white females who are doing so well. I feel as if these students all have different motivation levels and finding what inspires them to succeed is going to need to happen.

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I think that Janet has a lot of information to look at here and it is important for her to sort it out in order to have a successful year with her students. As a teacher, Janet has a reason to be worried here because she needs to figure out a way to reach out and educate all the students equally while at the same time making sure everyone is able to learn to their highest potentials. If I were Janet as a young teacher, I would be very careful in picking the path on which to educate the class for this school year.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	From what I have read, it sounds like Janet's students are grouped by reading level, but the reading level of her students is related to their race and gender. The black and latino students look to be the poorest readers in her class, and the white female students seem to be the best readers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am not sure of what I would do if I were Janet. If she is looking to incorporate diversity into her reading groups, then maybe she could take the approach of mixing strong readers with poor readers, so that maybe the struggling students could be supported by the ones who are excelling.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first assumption is that all the students should be grouped with high . low. and on-level groupings for centers and collaborating. The students should be grouped for small group differentiated instruction. As for the race and gender should not come into a factor.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think she is looking more at the race and gender.

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Im assuming that allot of these student come from lower income family's and majority of the kids probably don't have stable living conditions. On Maslows Hierarchy of needs safe living conditions is the base of the pyramid. Dealing with student who are not completely secure on the basic needs are probably struggle with the extra stuff that comes along with it. The result of this is the kids don't do their homework, kids behind in reading ect.

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She wants to take the easy way out by separating the good readers from the bad ones. I think there are other ways to get more efficient progress from your students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I notice in her group are Children with different abillities. All children should receive in my eyes the best support as an individium. Each child as much help as it needs. The better reading ones can help the minor ones, it return to help the other child with something else...that this perticular child can do better. Angela, Youth Specialist
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think, Janet has mixed feelings pertaining the background, race and heritage of the children. In perticulary what mileaus, or sections of towns, they come from .

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My assumptions about the students in Janet's class is for the most part most of the kid's have been exposed to reading at young age. Most studies show lower level of early reading at home and that most ethnic cultures tend not to read to their children.

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I feel her decisions are well rounded. With evaluation Janet should see results quickly. From the way Janet has the children grouped it seems as though she has thoughtfully executed a great approach in dividing the children by their exposure to reading. This plan I'm sure will evaluated many times and as all plans none are perfect so Janet should address the changes she will need to make accordingly.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in Janet's class are indeed very diverse. Being new to the profession, Janet seems to be worried about her schools AYP and being able to make strides. The level of diversity would be a struggle in any classroom but with explicit instruction, I believe Janet will be able to make noticable progress with her students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	By grouping the students by ability, Janet will be able to target certain skills the students need to develop in a small group setting. She will be able to deliver direct and explicit instruction that provides an intense intervention type setting. With her group of very low students, I don't see anywhere they can go but up.

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It appears that the white students are getting support at home. They may live in two-parent homes, not single parents. They have parents who read with them each night and are able to give them life experiences to enhance their background knowledge. It seems like the black and Latino students do not have the support at home. They may live in poverty. One could also assume that last year’s teacher did not provide them with a strong educational foundation. The teacher may have said, “bless their heart” and gave them pity not help.

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Janet is worried about her groups and if they will meet the goals set before them. She seems to wonder if there is a better way. I hope that she is able to do what is best for her kids even if it is not considered the norm. She notices how they play on the playground, but is she doing something about it? She needs to make sure she has a risk-friendly, safe environment for all kids no matter their background.

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First of all, they are not going to succeed because they are segregated. Not only are they segregated by race but also by ability. This creates a hierarchy that is vertical instead of lateral or heterogeneous grouping which creates equality. Communities are made of small groups. If this teacher wants to create a classroom community that will teach the students how to combat inequality in the future, then she needs to recognize that these small groups can not be segregated by race and ability.

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It is obvious that she cares about her students and their cultural backgrounds. As a culturally relevant teacher she knows that the students are capable of possibilities rather than accepting that they will fail. She has been building community and she recognized that the students cluster by race and gender. I do not think that she fully recognized that the students are school dependent.

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Most of the students are very low and probably come from a low socioeconomic background. They are probably smart but struggling because they are learning a second language and they don't have the basic skills needed to read and write. Once they learn the basic skills they are probably more likely to catch up to where they are supposed to be.

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I think she is beginning to understand that you can't group students just based on reading groups. Gigi was right on when she said she would create a "default segregation." Sometimes you have to be able to think outside of what your basal says, or what your administrators recommend that you do. You are in charge of your class and you are the one responsible for those children. There is no one way right way to group the children.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that many of the Latino(a) students are ELLs in this class because with the exception of one they are all performing at the emergent or early emergent stage. I see that only two receive ELL services but this does not necessarily indicate the lack of need for ELL services. It is also possible that English is not spoken in these students' homes.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet wanted to help the ethnic groups interact more in her class, but the reading grouping that she designed is doing just the opposite by separating the whites, blacks, and Latinos. She probably believes that ability grouping will bring up her students' test scores.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students who are at the highest reading levels of are one race, the lower readers are of the other two races.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is relying totally on reading scores.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am thinking that many of her students are low readers and by grouping them in these ways she is seeing a pattern. Often our low students are those of different race or ELL students. The grouping for reading may not look much different that grouping of friends
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think it is great that Janet is thinking of how to help her students. I also think it is great that she is trying to build commuinity among her students. I do believe she means well and is searching for answers that will be rewarding to her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That the ones that are White are from better homes and have received more support from the parents.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is grouping the students by level.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I have made some assumptions with her classroom as well as the other teachers too. We all assume that its their socio-economic status that influences their ability to read. And although that may be true, and they are provided with less opportunities at home, its still important for them to be able to learn from other students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet wants for the students to succeed as well as learn from one another. It is obvious that Janet is concerned about the groups because the groups are split by reading which happens to be the same as their SES and ethnicity. I think Janet would want the students from all backgrounds to be able to learn from one another.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Students will notice the racial make-up of the groups. Students in lower groups will be embarrassed, and students in upper groups may "lord it over" them.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet has done the best she could to group the students well. I assume that the literacy coach has knowledge of the need for cultural diversity. I assume that Janet has the freedom to change the groupings if she so chooses.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that the students that are stuggling are coming from homes where English may not be the primar language, the parents may not be able to read, write or speak English or they may not be supportive to the learning process at home. I think I am making these assumptions because of how the teachers explained the children's skills and background.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is forgetting that children can learn from other children. Her groups may not be allowing children to do this.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in the class seem to be in great need of intense interventions. Small groups might only be the tip of the iceberg. According to the conversation between Janet and her colleagues these students lack basic skills which could be due to their socioeconomic status and/or language barriers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet needs to look for data at a deeper level than summative assessment data. She has worked with these students and she needs to look at formative assessments and her own observations to know what is truly best for her students.

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The diversity of Janet's class can be overwhelming especially when focusing on grouping students according to the Benchmark skills. Overall, I do not see her class being any different than any other classroom out there; our classes are becoming more and more diverse each year. Unfortunately, group 5 students may not have strong reading influences at home but hopefully after Janet works her magic, they will begin to see that they are capable of reading well, comprehending, and will be more motivated to read.

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Although Janet seems hesitant at first to split the students into the different groups, I believe with time and evidence, Janet will begin to see that these students need to be grouped that way in order for them to focus on skills that all students in that group need to focus on. I probably, being a novice teacher, would have thought something was wrong with grouping the students in this manner. I would liked to have seen the lower skilled students being incorporated with the higher students too. In hopes that the lower students would be able to see and hear some of the strategies that the higher students use in order to read, write, and comprehend.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet has a pretty normal class. Students from all walks of life and ethnicities come to school with a plethora of differences.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet should research the benefits of heterogenous grouping. If Janet was more aware of how differences among students can be utilized to help all students progress she may rethink her groupings.

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I am assuming they lack support at home as well as have probably not been exposed to or had similar experiences as those in the higher groups. Grouping the students using data alone by decrease the efficacy of some of the students and therefor yield less positive results than those students with higher efficacy. Perhaps before she groups her students, she should look at the community she is trying so hard to develop and allow some other factors to play a part of the grouping. My thought is while data is very important, I'm not sure it is always good to group "by data alone". Sherry,administrator

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I think Janet realizes one of the big issues with these groups is that it encourages the problems with "community" that she was already experiencing

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is typical of most classes today. They are made of of mostly minority students who can't read on grade level, they receive free or reduced lunch, and come to school with a mountain of problems. Janet wants to help these kids, but she knows that most of them won't make a lot of progress.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet will probably group her kids according to their ability. Hopefully, she will realize the potential in all of her students and that they can learn from each other and group them accordingly.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Lationo and Black students are from a lower economic status and don't have the support at home that the fluent white readers have.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	SAhe grouped students by race or ethnicity and not based on skill.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	From the information given, I assume that Janet has a class full of struggling readers. I think that these students were not read to at home before starting 1st grade which has a great impact on student's reading ability. I also think that her students need extra help and attention in reading and this means spending more time on this subject area.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has the right intentions to try and group her students based on ability but I think she has to be careful of the racial segregation that is created by this. This racial segregation could make others think that the Black and Latino students are not as smart as the White students. I think her intentions are good but she needs to find a different method that is more racially diverse.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think she grouped them by their reading level but a student may assume that black and latino students as failures. I think she needs to come up with a better solution than what she has.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that she needs to revelaute the way she grouped the students I do not think that they will benefit with the way they are grouped. It almost seems as if it is a sterotype with the black and latino students put together.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet students are from low income families and some don't have the knowledge or the skills to improve there studies. Some don't speak english and they have a hard time understanding what Janet is trying to teach. Student---- Ingrim
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I totally disagree with Janet's teaching methods, she needs to re-evaluate her way of thinking. I wish she would go to some seminars for teachers and learn more about the way things have changed in the 21 cen. and mayable the appaorch would improve. Student---Ingrim

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Janet seems to have a class of low readers, with most of her low readers not being read to at home. At first I thought her students probably were not motivated to read, but then after reading the notes at the bottom she said her class varied with reading motivation - which tells me that some do like reading and are motivated to read. I would assume that her students are probably from a family of lower economic status due to the fact that most are not read to at home - they probably don't have money for books at home. She does have a lot of diversity which would lead to a wide range of interests and topics for reading.

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I think Janet was wise to start off with grouping the students by their text levels, but I think she has the low group too large. I would split that group up into two groups. Janet is concerned and wants her students to succeed because she is putting some thought into the groups, but I hope she changes the groups up and doesn't always have them grouped based on text levels, interests and comphrehension strategy needs are other good ways to group students as well. I think Janet may be a young teacher because she seems to be going to others for advice instead of using her own expertise and experience to plan her guided reading groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that there is a range of family support. I am assuming that the traditional form of schooling that Janet is providing for them is important to all the families in the classroom.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I see that she has the largest number of students in her lowest reading group. She should have the smallest number of students in her lowest reading group, 1 - 2 MAX. The groups should get progressively larger as the reading ability increases. I assume Janet does not have a lot of formal training in how to teach reading.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that many factors contribute to reading deficiencies exhibited by the students who are predominately minorities and boys. One factor could be that their parents may not be in a position to assist them at home because they lack adequate reading skills.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Even though Janet has grouped her students according to the data, I think should consider the affect this grouping will have on the students' self-esteem.

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The students who are having trouble seem like the ones who are not so weel-off financially. it seems like their parents have to work a lot and they forget to help their children with their studies. The kids lack help at homke by their parents and are only getting help from school. There is only so much a teacher can do and the rest should be from the help pf the parents.

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i think Janet feels like she needs to fix her students’ reading levels. Im sure every teacher feels that way because they want whats best for their children. first grade is a critical grade where the students are learning to read the most and they shouold all leave first grade knowing how to read better than they did in kindergarten so they are ready for second grade. The groups formed should be based on their reading levels more than anything.

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I think that Janet should be worried about her student's success. I think that there is a deeper meaing behind the achievement gap that goes deeper than just a racial devide. I am assuming that these students are probably living in a low income area and that these student's parents are more than likely constantly working, not able to help their child with homework or are not present in their lives. I assume that this could also play into the racial divide. I can also assume based on the groups that Janet made that there are more students who are struggling with reading than there are students who are not struggling. Regardless of race, there are a majority of students who are struggling. I can also assume based ont the data that the majority of her students are black and Latino, the white students in her class are the minority.

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I assume that Janet is worreied about offending her students. I think think that is why she is worried that this grouping method might not work. I am assuming that she is worried about meeting AYP so I assume that is why she needed to find a solution and this was her solution for meeting AYP. Now I am wondering exactly what she is worried about. Is she worried that meeting AYP might mean creating a racial divide that could make one racial group look supirior and others inferior? I am assuming that she wants to do what is best for her students and she is not positive that this will work but she needs to bring her class up to speed. I agree with what Miranda says that this is the data that is presented to her, she needs to take into account the factors as to why this is the case and then act upon it. If the black or Latino students need extra help and are behind then it is her job as their teacher to try as hard as she can to bring them up to the level of reading that they need to be at. She needs to believe in those students that they can achieve a better reading level and then she needs to act on it. However, I assume that these are issues she is hopefully taking into account and these could be reasons why she seems hesitant.

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Janet seems to be struggling with what to do in grouping her students, but this seems to be very important to her or she would not be asking for help. I think this is expanding Janet's knowledge and making her a better teacher.

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Janet is putting her groups together based on ability levels. She is doing so that she can teach her students skills on their abilit level. I don't think she should group them like this all the time. Her first group is not very diverse. Her second group is more diverse and will allow skills to be taught specifically. The third group is based on interest which is important so that the students will be interested in what they are reading.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in her class might be segragating theirselves by race and gender because they are probably more comfortable around the people that look more like them, talk like them, act like them, etc.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She splits them up based on their testing, but they all end up falling back into their segragated groups that they tend to split theirselves up in. It's almost like she is letting them know that it is okay to segragate themselves from the others because they are all at the same level.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet has a class with a wide span of readiness levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet should look at how to get the largest growth from each child.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The ones that seem to her to be Early Emergent Readers are the ones that come from lower income homes, as she said most of them receive free and reduced meals. They may not engage much in reading at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand that she is looking for a way to help improve her student's reading abilities. It can be difficult to have groups of such varying levels working on one thing at the same time, but it can also be difficult separating them in this way.

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Janet has a diverse class, and each student has their own background that will be important in their learning. I'm assuming that some of the students are from a lower socioeconomic status since the teachers called them "apartment kids" which could explain their literacy rates. Maybe some of the students do not get as much help with their schoolwork at home as other students do so they might have fallen behind in their reading and writing skills.

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Janet seems to not know how to go about reaching all of her students diverse literacy needs. Even when they are split into groups based on reading level, each student has their own schema and background that they bring to the table and Janet will have to use this in order to help her students. Janet knows that she has to improve her student's literacy, but she does not seem to know exactly how to do that yet.

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There is an obvious trend between the race of the student and what reading group they fall into. After looking at the data, I soon realized that the white students fell into the higher groups whereas the minority students were in the lower groups. Not only that, but the students in the lower groups were also the ones receiving extra resources, such as language learning, free and reduced lunches, and after-school programs. This makes me wonder about life at home - how much help they are getting from their parents. Although race seems to be a big issue in performance, it needs to be mentioned that race doesn't affect performance; it's the characteristics associated. For example, Latinos are performing worse not because they're Latino, but because some of them don't even speak English.

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I'm hoping that Janet isn't associating race with performance. In the future, it is important for her not to automatically associate minority students with low performance levels. By grouping these students homogeneously, I think she is trying to zone in on specific needs of a group. She knows that when she is helping the higher groups, she doesn't need to give as much attention to them as the lower groups. I am also hoping that Janet is thinking that each individual student can make strides in his or her education. Just because a student is in the lower group doesn't mean that he or she will still be there by the end of the year.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	While Janet is notiving that lower leverl of children in each group, she should also remeber that each child learn at a different level . Teach each child where they are in skill level and go from there. Give eaach a pretest, and a postest after the second month of learning. Regroup the children if neccessary. Her main goal is get one year of growth from each child.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet is a teacher that has always taught children from high social economics area. This must be her first year teaching children from a lower economice group and she is try her best not to racist by grouping with the child they hang out with at lunch and the playground.

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I think that the students in Janet's class struggle just like many kids in first grade and in any other grade struggle. It is important to help the students in the best way that we can. By focusing on the skills and individualizing instruction to meet the needs of the students.

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I am not sure I agree with the grouping. I think sometimes it is a good idea to group by level to focus on a skill, but those students also need to be with other students to learn, grow and see others' thinking. By changing up the grouping students comprehension has an opportunity to increase. The higher students have an opportunity to help the lower students and the lower students are able to see what they can strive for when they work hard. Second of all, anyone would be able to see that the groups are not divided evenly by race or culture. The students, parents and other teachers would be able to notice this. If I saw this in a classroom it would make me wonder what was going on. The students would also be able to learn from each others' cultures and make connections between their background knowledge.

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Grouping the students in segregated groups isn't an appropriate way to groups the students. It send the message that some groups of children are more able to read at higher levels than others. I am wondering on what basis Janet grouped the children. It seems to be based solely on reading ability. The children need to be exposed to different kinds of readers to progress. If poor readers never hear children who are good readers, how will they ever get the idea of how a good reader sounds when reading?

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Janet may not be thinking of all the ramifications of her grouping strategy. I think she is being narrow-minderd in her grouping and needs to look at more of the factors in reading and comprehension. Students can be grouped in a variety of ways at different times. Grouping by the particular skill students need means that switching groups around frequently can be done easily.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The majority of these students will need a lot of help and support at school. I think that it would help to group the better readers among those who are more needy as team leaders and allow them to work together to help one another during a part of the class time and then at another time grouping according to their reading levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe Janet senses the problem and trying various ways of grouping then evaluating whether the technique is working will help her determine what is best for the students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It appears that some of the black boys and latino girsl have a problem that is hindering them from reading at their full potential.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I have yet to make any assumptions based on the information provided.

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Many of the students from different racial and ethnic group seem to score lower on the test. They automatically on the playground play in groups segregated by gender and race and ethnicity. If this segregation continues over into the classroom these students will probably feel segregated from other groups for the rest of their lives. At the same time, many of the students that are just now emerging in English do need help on their ability to read or else the next years could get increasingly difficult for them.

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I think Janet really truly means well. She noticed that the students were segregating themselves a little on the playground and wanted to fix it. She has put in a lot of effort to establish a community in the classroom. At the same time she recognizes that the students that are struggling really do need help. I think she's just really confused on what the best thing is to do here. Personal opinion, I think she should stick with her original goal of creating a community and come up with another way to help her students.

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From the outline in the case study it seems that Janet’s students are of a lower socioeconomic status and they have little to no parental support or encouragement at home. There is a large population of ELL students that she need to accommodate to as well. My thinking on this comes from the class profile that is outlined in the case study and the grouping chart.

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I think Janet has good intensions, but like a lot of teachers is at a loss of where to turn for help. She sees a need to improve the reading levels of her students and takes the initiative to ask the literacy coach for advice. Unfortunately, it seems the literacy coach gave a generic “do what’s best” answer that lead Janet to further alienate the lower readers. Janet does show good intuition after the first day in that she sees these groups probably are not going to work. I hope in the next section she incorporates different levels of learners together so that they can learn from and encourage one another.

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What we really know about the students is their race and gender and how they did on the benchmark test. The literacy coach said to make groups based on their benchmark results, but I would have liked to have seen him suggest that they also provide results from other assessments and use that in addition to benchmark results. Black and Latino students make up the largest group, early emergent readers, with eight in the group, four girls, and four boys. The next step up, emergent readers, has six students of which four are Latino and two are black. The third largest group with five is the fluent reader group, but they are all white. Early fluent and transitional groups both have three students, mainly black students with one Latino student. These statistics are important in terms of showing where the children ranked, but I don’t feel it is necessary to specify their race or gender.

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Janet must certainly see the problem. I commend her for working hard to create community with her students because she is observing that they tend to stay with like gender and ethnicity in groups elsewhere in the school. She is also under a great deal of pressure with the school’s struggling AYP to bring her struggling readers up. The literacy coach suggested that the teachers set aside where the children come from and focus on what they need which was good advice, but he recommended that each teacher create groups based on the benchmark text levels which focuses solely on race and gender which defeats the purpose of setting aside where they “come from.” I hope that with the school’s mandate of small group instruction, Janet will use more heterogeneous grouping so that the students can further become a community by working together and helping each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that Janet's class has literacy and language issues that makes it very difficult to arrange in groups. If she arranges in groups according to their needs as she was advised to do, the students will be in racial groups which is something she was trying to avoid. Depending on how much the students are lacking, maybe she could use the Kagan style learning to establish her groups.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet seems to understand how to make the classroom diverse, however, if the so called statistics are correct, she will have no other choice but to group them racially into literacy groups. I would be worried either way, she needs to meet the students needs and find a way to satisfy the AYP.

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I am assuming that too much emphasis is being placed on the Benchmark scores. While they may be accurate, it is more important to discover the individual needs of the students based on day-by-day observations by their teacher. It is also assumed that the struggling students are those who come from homes where English is not the primary language and from homes where reading is not encouraged. Unless, this is confirmed by the parents, this should not be assumed by educators. This type of reasoning can often be used as an excuse by teachers for not doing more or for not implementing more effective strategies.

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An assumption that is made regarding Janet surrounds the issue of grouping the students. If they are grouped according to their ability to read, a form of racial segregation will be in place. This will group most of the white students together, while leaving the African American and the Latino students in the other groups. Thus, it is assumed that the teacher will be, inadvertently, instilling a racist attitude among her students. From this, students, parents, and other educators may determine that Janet carries with her racial biases. It would only take one parent who sees things this way, to create problems for Janet and the school administration. I recognize that Janet is juggling apples and oranges with this situation. She is trying to do what is best for her each of her students, while being careful not to cause harm to them in the process.

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I am not making any assumptions about Janet’s students based upon her breakdown of demographic information. I would need to see the data itself- beyond her reporting categories- to get a profile of the learner to then make instructional decisions rather than assumptions. Motivation, literacy at home, and prior academic success may be influential factors. However, my assumption about the students would be with effective and competent intervention and formative assessment with instructional adjustments, the students should make progress. I would note that there are two ELL’s in first grade who are simultaneously working on literacy and language. That needs to be taken into account and the students should be supported and celebrated.

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Before making assumptions about Janet’s decisions, I have a question. The reporting categories she used to group students (fluent, early fluent)- what benchmarking material is she using (or being guided to use)- to group the students? DIBELS? Reading level from benchmark text? A multiple choice “comprehension assessment” from a basal? While I find it concerning that only the White children are in the fluent group, I would want to get to the root causes of their success and apply that learning to the harder to accelerate students. I do not want to assume but by digging deep into the demographics as she did, is Janet looking for an excuse to explain lack of progress if they are not accelerating in lieu of challenging herself and her students?

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It seems likely that most of the students in Janet's class have not experienced home environments that would promote development of age-appropriate literacy skills for a variety of reasons, including poverty and lack of exposure to English.

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It appears that Janet has made her grouping decisions based solely on the benchmark data without taking into account anything else she may know about her students, such as their interests and levels of motivation. Also, It seems odd that Janet identifies her students by race instead of by name. This may indicate that she is making assumptions, consciously or not, about her students based on their racial backgrounds.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has forgotten how powerful she is standing in between the door of knowledge for students. Janet seems to have asumptions about here students befor really knowing who she are working with.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has a broad range of thoughts about her students. Janet seems to be a new teacher.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm assuming that some of them probably come from homes with parents who don't speak great English, because of the low reading levels of some of the latino students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I'm assuming she's got the great desire to help the students learn the best she knows how, and that she cares enough to wonder if this method will even work.

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Based on the information provided, I think that the students have potentials that are not being considered. If some students are motivated to read, perhaps they could be grouped with others who are reading at a higher level. I would like to know more about all of the students and their personalities, interests, etc. Perhaps mixed-grouping would be more appropriate, pairing or grouping students who don't necessarily read at the same level, but who would be willing to learn with and from one another.

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I think grouping all of the early emergent readers together is a mistake. Students learn from one another and are motivated by the potential for success when they see it in their peers. While it is important to avoid placing a student in a group where he or she will feel frustrated, I think homogeneous grouping poses problems. Students need to see themselves as part of a classroom community, instead of belonging to a group based on their current abilities. This kind of grouping causes children to label themselves as low-level readers, making it difficult for them to imagine themselves being successful. Their vision of success is the precursor to achieving success.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I feel that the students in Janet's class need more attention from the teachers and also from Janet. They need to show the students that they do have hope in becoming a better student and especially a better reader. If Janet mixes the students up with other students who have a different race then them then they wouldn't feel that they are in the "stupid group" if they are black or latino.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet went the wrong way about dividing her class up into groups. She put them into groups with the same reading levels and also with students that have the same race. I think that she should divde the class up into five different groups and have a mixed variety of reading levels and race in the groups. This will allow the students to learn from one another and help each other out.

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I believe that the students' socioeconomic backgrounds are a major contributor in their reading abilities. The lowest group is composed of Latino and black children, most likely because they come from poorer families and do not have the extra support at home that they need in order to perform better in school.

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I am curious to know how Janet has assessed the students in her class and how she grouped them. I would be worried as to whether the groups would work, especially the lowest group, since they would not be able to learn effectively from one another. I think that the groups should be grouped so that the students will have an opportunity to work in a diverse environment versus working in a homogeneous environment.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That Janet's class is the lowest of the class on the academic learning scale and she is having it hard on how to get them to learn the skills they need to become successful.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	One of the assumptions I made was that Janet's groupings seem biased. The white students are among the top while the poor students,black and Latino, are in the lowest group. Because she has struggling readers in the low group, I assume that these students do not have the background knowledge and experiences that the higher groups have had.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is making her grouping list to satisfy the needs of administration, not on the needs of her students. She may say she wants to help them with reading but where is the list of comprehension skills that the students are strong and weak in?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm assuming, based on what has been proposed, that many of the children from minority populations are also struggling with reading. This may create a situation where grouping the students by reading level may also group them by race.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet seems confused about how she should group the kids in her class. She's not sure how to group the students without creating a sense of failure that the children may associate with their race or ethnicity.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's students are clearly struggling readers and the clear reason is the student's race and social class. They don't seem to have a lot of exposure to reading and writing.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet is pretty judgmental. She seems stressed out already, and she hasn't even started really working with her kids! It is obvious that Janet's student's skill levels are all over the board, and Janet really wants to fix this gap.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions are that most of her students come from homes where the parents aren't able to spend time reading and helping them educationally. There was no mention learning differences...only that she was dealing with students from diverse backgrounds and most were lagging behind in reading. They are comfortable with others like them and haven't found a way to connect beyond racial lines.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I love that Janet is sensitive to the racial divide. It seems she senses that greater growth might occur if the reading groups were leveled differently...possibly more mixed groups culturally. This way relationships and friendships can develop and resulting peer to peer learning opportunites.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that her students are from very diverse homes with parents of varying reading levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that she used benchmarks or data and made her groups that way. I think that she is unsure about her decision and how it will affect the relationships and confidence levels of the students in her class.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

After hearing a few details given in the case study, I found myself making assumptions about various aspects about the students. Although the case mentioned the struggle to improve the schools' AYP, the fact that many schools have struggled with this since the beginning of NCLB left me no grounds to conclude anything from this. However, two other factors mentioned did allow for me to make assumptions. The fact that the number of minority students outnumbered the white students allowed me to assume that this school is located in an urban community. This along with the fact that the teacher mentioned "apartment kids" making up the majority of the student population, I can assume that the school is mostly made up of students from low socioeconomic families. Another assumption that can be made is that students' parents may not have much extra time, due to high amounts of working hours, to work with students on school work outside of school. This is assumed due to the fact that they mention in the case that parents are not teaching things like the alphabet that students of higher socioeconomic levels tend to know when they come into school. Overall we can assume that the out of school learning experiences are directly related to the socioeconomic status of the students.

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I agree with Gigi's first impressions of this situation for the most part. From what we know so far about the case, the grouping that the literacy coach has chosen to use could lead to many negative outcomes. This led me to think about the theory that students who believe that they are supposed to do well, will in fact do so, while students who believe that they will perform poorly, will in fact do so as well. I feel that by dividing students into these groups, the teacher is not only setting the stage for students to be divided racially, but, as Gigi mentioned, also for students to attach labeling of inferiority to the Black and Latino students of the classroom. However, I do not see any grounds presented thus far to back up the other first impressions listed that show Janet's lack of understanding of what is wrong with the grouping used. She was assigned to group students in a particular way, and I believe she showed great insight in realizing almost instantly that this method of grouping would not be in the best interest of the class.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Since there are only 5 white students, most of Janet's class is made up of minority students. With this being said, these minority students are also the ones who are struggling the most with reading. The main assumption that I made about this class is that there might not be a lot of support at home for the black and Latino students. This might be an indication that they either come from low income families, or families do not have a lot of time or money to support and help with their children's education.

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The assumption I am making about Janet, is she somehow did a test to rank students based on their reading, and did not realize before hand that it would leave the white students at the highest reading level, and the rest of the students below that. I believe she may have thought that this would work out the best but then taking a second look at it realized that this might cause problems like she had said after making the groups. I think that her overall idea is to just improve the students reading and not group them by race or gender, but that just seems to be the way that some of it turned out.

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I assume that the white students, who are all placed in the Fluent Readers group, probably have more support at home; that they have a parent or guardian to read to them and/or insist that they read to themselves. I would also assume that the reason for the Latino students being in the lower level groups is due to a language barrier. They are only first graders, and most likely have not had the same level of exposure to the English language and therefore it is not surprising that it might take them longer to begin reading. That is not to say that they will not progress quickly, but at the beginning, it may take them a little longer.

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I believe she is concerned about perceptions and racial stereotyping. Clearly she is uncomfortable with how the groups turned out to be organized. I'm not sure if she is merely concerned about a lack of productivity, or if she is concerned with how other adults might view her groupings or how the students themselves will view the groupings. Perhaps all three.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	No assumptions. It looks like what I deal with.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Students are often than not a product of their environment. However, ability grouping is more important in dealing with reading levels. You meet them were they are and tailor your lessons accordingly.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	They're probably from single parent families
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She's doing it by race or ignoring race and doing by reading level

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm sensing that a lot of these students have not had prior good instruction, so they need a little bit more help to get ahead. When thinking about the students, I think Janet should think more about what they can accomplish rather than what they cannot accomplish.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I do not think it is a very strategic plan to group children with similar issues together. I think it should be divided up evenly to where the stronger readers are in a group with some less strong readers. I feel like if the individuals who struggle with reading are put together that things will be difficult for them and they might not get a lot done.

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As I look at Janet’s groups, I am assuming that the ones in group 4 and 5 might already be frustrated with learning to read. They probably experienced similar groupings the year before—or their siblings may have—and are already developing an image of themselves as “bad readers.” The article notes that the students in group 5 “differ widely with respect to how much they engage with reading at home.” I am wondering if this takes into account reading in a language other than English—given the prevalence of Latino students, I wonder if these students read with their families in Spanish at home. This might be useful information for Janet as she tries to engage families with their students’ reading progress.

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I am assuming that Janet is troubled by these groupings. They put all the white students in the same highest-level group, which is overwhelmingly female. The lower level groups have more boys, and are entirely black and latino students. Her lowest level groups also contain her poorest students. I am assuming that Janet does not want to allow her students to develop prejudices about who is a good student or who can learn based on race or gender. These groups are also troubling because they put the students who might experience a lot of stress and anxiety in their home life all in the same groups. Families with less money might struggle to provide for their children’s needs, the parents might work several jobs, and they may move frequently. All of these factors can add up to some very anxious children, and putting the most stressed students all together does not seem like a recipe for success.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that her students aren't getting enough interaction from their home environment. When children have supportive parents, they are often more driven and succeed in school. With so many minorities lagging behind in reading skills, it is important that teachers establish a trusting relationship since they might not have that reassurance at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet is grouping her students based on their skill level which doesn't always work. Individual attention is most likely needed in order for the student to fully understand and learn from the teacher.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet needs to make sure that she is sticking to the data available to her and not grouping based on preconceived ideas.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She has grouped a large number of black and latino boys. Is she doing this based on data?

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I am assuming that these black and latino kids are the ones who are obviously the lower readers in the class. I believe that this isn't a fair assumption seems that the latino students could be very good readers but in their own language. I also am going to assume that if Janet sets up her classroom like this she will promote racism to the upmost because that is what the kids will pull out from it.

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I think Janet has lost her mind. She needs to find a way to divide up the students in order to make it look less racially inclined. Granted some of her best students might be the white children while the other racial groups have fallen slightly-greatly behind but she still needs to think about what thoughts this might bring to her students heads about there being an all white group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am thinking that the black and Latino students are struggling readers and may not get reinforcement at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is worried about reaching the struggling readers. The students could be paired with top readers for daily partner reading.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Teaching reading at an early age is a hard work. In Janet's case, she is new to the situation; however, she is doing the best she can to move her students forward.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She made the decision of grouping them in the best way she could. She tought that she could help them more closely by the way she did.

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They are in need of extra support from the teacher. It seems like the students in Janet's class needs to be taught from the basics. They probably don't get a lot of educational support from home or the parents probably don't know how to teach beginning stages of reading or spend time with their children reading them stories.

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I would like to know what kind of informal or formal assessments Janet used to place her students into these groups. I know we tend to focus a lot more instruction on our little ones (early emergent), but it is also very important she has a small group specific lesson with all her students. For example, fluent readers need extra support on comprehesion or fluency while the emergent readers need more specific lessons on word familys or even phonemes. She seems to know that her students are struggling and is trying to learn how to get her students to become better readers.

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I am assuming that almost all of the students in Janet's class are somehow behind where they should be in terms of reading and reading comprehension. These students have had a slow start to their education and it is already showing signs that it is affecting them.

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I think Janet should just split the students up by reading levels. Just take the whole race and ethnic backgrounds out of the picture and just put them into groups of people who are on their same reading level. this is by far the best resolution in terms of helping the student's with their overall reading skills beacuse it puts them in groups that can all work together and learn new things at the same time.

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It appears that the white students in Janet's class are all fluent readers. Black females are better readers than the black males. Latino studnets are the least advanced which is understandable due to the fact that they are learning a new language. The students from the "apartments" are probable lower income and get lets support at home. I think that it proves that the more support that they have at home, the more productive they will be at school.

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Janet's decisions in this case are not on track because while she meant it for good, it can easily be seen as being racist or stereotyping. It would beneficial to diversify the groups by way of putting the good readers in the groups with the slower readers so that they can help with teaching. Peers can sometimes be more affective than a teacher because they can be less intimidating.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The student's Janet's class remind me of my own. Most of my students come from low SES backgrounds but they have a wide range of abilities. I believe they can benefit from students at different levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It looks to me that Janet is making assumptions of her students based on incorrect data.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in her class for whatever reason are not getting it academically so that they can advance in the Testing levels. Janet seemed to be confused as to what to do about the situation in order for the students to be successful.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She seems to be at a loss and is not sure of her solutions to the issue.

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2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is concerned about her students' learning. I'm wondering if she accepts her colleague's conclusion that the ELL students "don't have much language." Janet's uneasiness about her groupings is promising. As is, her groups are an early form of tracking.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I would start gearing my mind as to how I would make my lesson to be culturally responsive to better serve my students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	When Janet notices the students who are in the lowest reading group, she has reason to wonder if her plan will work. Made up of children from poor homes, children who don’t speak English, and children who struggle with basic skills, the group is lower than any group she has seen.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	These students probably come from poor families with carelessness about their child's education. There are many cultural backgrounds between students therefore it is important to recognize each students characteristics not just by looking at there race or ethnicity.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet senses that there is some type of problem. I don't think she understands the segregation between the students can be insulting and make them less motivated to participate in class. By separating students by race, gender or ethnicity, may prevent students from learning fully in the classroom.

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Based on the information provided, I think that Janet has got a difficult road ahead. A majority of her class is emergent or early emergent readers and how is she going to meet thier needs while trying to meet the needs of the 5 students who are fluent readers? I would hope that the grouping of the students is purely based on test scores and that she did her best at trying to group them. I could see how early on, the grouping may work, but I think that after time passes, Latino and Black students are going to feel as though they are stupid and they are going to begin to feel stereotyped based on the color of their skin. From there they will begin to hate reading and shut down.

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I assume that Janet used the data to make her groups and hope that she truly recognizes how these groups can impact the studenets negatively. If she does not handle this situation with kid gloves she is going to have some major issues. I hope that Janet sees the problem and decides to regroup the children.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think the students are not as advanced as Janet wants them to be.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think she is making great decisions in this case because she wants the studetns to become more advanced.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

By looking at her groupings, I am noticing that similarly situated people are similarly grouped. For example, as her goal may have been to create groups with a mixture of race and gender, by abiltiy grouping each of the groups ended up created the notion of simlarly situated people grouped together. I do not think this was Janet's original goal.

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I believe when Janet phsyically sees how she has grouped her students, she might agree another form of grouping might work better. I think she will notice that students who come from similar experiences and home lives will be grouped in a certain ability group. I believe that by Janet realizing another method might be better, she will be able to regroup the students in mixed groups with mixed abilities. This might allow students to work together and use their strengths to help bring up their overall weaknesses.

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The students in Janet's class appear to have had more whole group instruction and small group interaction with each other when they would "cluster" by gender and race so the grouping by benchmark scores is not providing the students with the opportunity to be grouped with different students. The students in Janet's class appear to be risk averse and not used to engaging in dialogue with students who think differently than themselves when learning new information or completing learning tasks.

2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking

Janet is like most teachers; constantly in search of her students path to learning. She is asking herself,how can I do this better? And when she grouped her students by the data she saw that it did not provide a new approach to what the students were already doing.I agree grouping and instruction should be data driven the groups should be heterogeneous providing the students opportunity to hear the thinking of their peers and to view the written expression of their peers.

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Janet's class is extremely diverse. There is a wide variety of races and ethnicities among the students and I also think there is a wide variety of reading levels and academic abilities among the students. I think that the students of lower reading abilities may be struggling because they are new to the English language or because they are not read to at home or do not have the resources to learn. I think that the fluent readers may be of a higher reading level because they have exposure to a variety of words and practice reading at home often. I think that the students often cluster with others of the same race and do not like to venture outside of their group because they are comfortable with students that are similar to themselves. Hence, I thought that the main problem with the students in Janet's class was their lack of interactions with all peers and inability to work together as a community.

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I think that Janet had the right intentions and was smart to recognize that the students needed to be put into reading groups; however, I think that she took the wrong approach in creating the groups. Janet was concerned that the students were only interacting with students of the same race/ethnicity and she wanted them to interact with others more, but her reading groups do not mix the students at all. For example, her "Fluent Readers" group is all white, which does not encourage mixing among students. Therefore, at first I thought that Janet did a good job putting the students into reading groups based on ability, but was not effective in mixing the students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The high readers come from two-parent middle class white families who value their child's education. The struggling readers come from single parent homes with only the mother present. They are low-income families and their parents may not value education as much if at all.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is having difficulty with her reading group placements. She is trying to figure out how to get her students were they need to be in order for the school to meet AYP.

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It seems like even though Janet is working hard to build community in her classroom, having these groups for reading only counteract this effort. If you look at the groups they may be based on benchmark tests, but the students are segregated as far as ethnicity goes. This makes me wonder if the tests being used are culturally biased and favor a certain group of students or if this may be because of students socioeconomic status.

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I'm not sure if having this many reading groups will be effective and easy to manage. While she is working with one group do the others work independently? And if so will this benefit all student's and help push them to the next level in their learning?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is incredibly diverse. My assumption is that she would benefit from another opinion or two on how she could effectively group her students to increase AYP but mostly to give the first grade students (each and every one) the best chances to acquire the "love of reading" that will spark an increase in abilities and create a win win for all.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume Janet is not comfortable involving others in these types of decisions for some reason. It seems like she could be making a mountain out of a mole hill, so to speak. Simply put, she doesn't come to definite conclusion even after deliberation.

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The students in Janet's class is a diverse group, and she has to know how to group students according to learning abilitied. The students are low in performance and they are lacking the necessary skills for that particular grade level.

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My assumptions about Janet and her deciaions in this case is that she needs to group students accordingly. The decision that she made is relating to the workshop materials and cultural bias that she heard during the workshop. Janet is trying to implement what she learned from various workshops into her classroom environment. Educators must know that every strategies do not fit all students and they must know their students cultural and background.

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I believe that Janet's class is almost prone to fail with the diversity it has. As well as outside the classroom the students hang out in groups of their own race or gender. This is bad because students are not branching out to different students and like what is said above, blacks and Latinos have a higher rate of failure. Her grouping is not well done either if she has one group that is significantly lower than the other ones and contains ELL students, poor students, and struggling students. These students have no other student to see how they should be doing and model that.

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I think Janet is trying to be color blind in a classroom where even though that may be the politically correct thing for her to do, it is hindering her students ability to learn. She needs to re-make the groups again while being color blind like she wants but to split the students up by ability equally throughout the class.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Schema is a potential predictor of benchmark leveling.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She used only 1 source for grouping and needed to use multiple quantitative and qualitative sources.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students are needing help and are being looked at for where they come from and how poor they are instead of looking at what they need help in. I feel the kids are sticking with each others races because thats what the teachers are kind of doing. Plus it just what the students know.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that she needs to pair the children up by what there reading levels are and then take it from there. when she noticed that the gorup was all the poor children and children that dont speak English i can see why she paniced, but i think putting the students together woud be a god thing so then she can help out that group a little more.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet has a very diverse group of students. I think that she really has a lot of work ahead of her that will envolve her really looking at the personalities of these students and grouping them in a best fit group. These students can learn from other students if placed in the right group.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is in a hard position. She has her administrators on her about these students and about them meeting AYP. She also has to think about what is best for these students and what is she going to do that will enable them to grow in a way that shows growth and allows them to become proficient readers. I wonder will she change these groups or stick to the plan that was given to her.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Placing the lower level readers together who are of minority races may lead to a maintenance of their low level reading and association of minorities and low academic achievement. I would assume that the students will see the groups and who is in them, and recoginze the unintended labels. The students need to be in a position to help eachother and communicate together.

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Janet is in a difficult position regarding how to determine the best grouping methods. She has several "varieties" of students at different learning levels. Although it appears to me as if Janet has grouped them based on their reading abilities, the grouping method may not be the most effecive. I would assume that Janet knows how to assess students, but not how to group them using a method to improve the overall reading scores.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Socioeconomic status is related to reading ability.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think she will realize this trend and will regroup her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm not exactly sure how they are feeling but they could be longing for a sense of community within the classroom instead of feeling segregated by their differences.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	If this was my classroom, I would first begin looking at what skills all the students are struggling with and making groups off of that. If she is wanting the students to work together then form little groups during center time so they are able to work together and get to know one another.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I would believe that her students are from poverty and don't receive support from home. The children's parents may not be able to read with them if they, themselves, don't speak English fluently. This also effects their helping children with comprehension as they don't understand the appropriate questions to ask as students read.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is trying her best to help the children, but she doesn't fully understand how best to help. I appreciate the literacy coach's advice with grouping with benchmarks, but the students should be grouped by skill needed. This way, students will have a diverse group and be able to learn from each other more.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I am assuming that these students are struggling to learn to read based on their home lives and current circumstances. I think that is why they happen to fall into groups with similar scenarios. It is apparent that many teachers believe that students with struggling parents and difficult homes have more trouble in school, generally speaking.

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I completely understand what Janet is trying to accomplish by placing here students in leveled reading groups. She is simply attempting to help her students gain more knowledge and learn to read more efficiently. I agree with her decision to place her students into reading groups based on their achievement level. I think it just happened to be that the students belonged to a similar social groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Based on the discussion, there is a challenge with language that needs to be addressed, and the comment about the lack of knowledge of the alphabet indicated maybe those children have not been in school prior to first grade. Which means, they need the basic foundation of learning the alphabet, the reality is without it, they will not be able to read.

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By acknowledging the problem, Janet has assessed her students which is very important for teachers to do. In her decision, however, I sense she tries to make students feel comfortable in their group. The grouping looks practical but not productive, She needs to take into consideration the power of students learning from each other. Since she has been working hard to build community in the class, this activity will serve as a great tool to reinforce the idea.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Tracking is a hot issue in education. I recently read work by Beth Rubin regarding the intricate groups that make successful students through group collaboration. "The research suggests that most students can benefit from participating in learning groups comprised of students who have different levels of achievement and in which students of different races and ethnicities participate" (Grouping students by ability). As a new teacher Janet should be concerned with her reading groups. Putting the lower achieving, emergent readers together in a group that is comprised of minority children has the potentional to create a class that harbors ratial stereotypes. Janet should balance her groups by adding groups that are of mixed reading levels. Reference Grouping students by ability. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.tolerance.org/tdsi/cb_grouping

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It seems to me that Janet is under pressure from her administration. She has asked for help from colleges but has received conflicting information on if she should integrate her student's home lives with their school lives, or to separate school and home. In the text "Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Housefolds, Communities, and Classrooms" by Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti teachers and scientist collaborated through recording scientific observation, and interviews with the student in their home environment. One teacher in the study was amazed that a deeper understanding of the student's home life lead to a better teacher-students relationship, improved student achievement, and most importantly a better understanding of the student's special needs and circumstances. Even though some of Janet's emergent readers are "apartment kids" their potential should not be assumed by their family's living situation. Janet should contact the families and consider the entire student when making reading groups. Gonzalez, Norma, Moll, Luis, & Amanti, Cathy. (2005). Funds of knowledge: theorizing practices in housefolds, communities, and classrooms. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaurn Associates, Inc., Publishers.

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I think that the students in Janets class are very diverse when it comes to reading ability and race/ethnicity. A lot of them did not have much experience before coming into the first grade and therefore the students are on various reading levels. Some students have not had much experience with english either. I think a great way to help students catch up and to benefit other students could be to have the students help each other. The students right now seem to stay in their same race/ethnicity group outside of class. If they are put in diverse groups, they could help each other and possibly close the gap.

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I think that Janet is trying to make groups based on their reading ability hoping that this will help. However, she discovers that there may be a problem. I think Janet realizes that she should probably not keep the groups like this since they are in groups that separate them by ethnicity/race. I believe Janet wants to find a way to benefit her kids in reading while mantaining the community environment in her classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	maybe she is grouping them so she will know who needs a little extra help.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	janet should know herself first and her cultural feelings.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Maybe the white students have had richer experiences and therefore stronger schema. Maybe the text level benchmark assessments are biased toward white middle class culture Maybe the black and Latino students limited experience with the text used in instruction
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She believes she should follow the literacy coach's suggestion to use text reading level for grouping. She's thinking that the groupings, althugh accurate for TRL, may inadvertently cause the minority students to appear less capable. She needs to find other ways to group students at different times for different instructional purposes to alleviate the stereotyping possibilities.

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I'm assuming that the students in Janets lower groups are from poorer income families without a good support system and without good resources. Since the first group is all white and they are the fluent readers, I'm assuming that they have good parents that have introduced them to literature and education before an actual school setting. I am labeling the students absent mindedly and assuming that they go right along with stereotypes of minorities (minorities come from low socio economic backgrounds therefore causing them to fall behind in school).

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My first impressions of this case are Janet is innocently trying to group her students together by ability level but in doing so she overlooks the fact that the fluent reader group or the higher group is all white and that the minorities are going to be associated with lower achievments. I think Janet genuinely wants to help but in trying to help her students this way she may actually be hurting them by labeling them even more.

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I believe that Janet's class divides like they do on the playground and in activities outside of the classroom based on their personal achievement and learning level. Looking at Janet's chart of students, it showed me that all the White Female Students were at the highest reading level along with one male student. A few white male students were in the group below, but none of the white children were in lower level groups. But the Black and Hispanic children were all mixed together in the bottom reading levels. Janet expressed that they break up into gender/race groups and after looking at the chart of reading ability I can understand why they do this.

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I feel as if Janet did what she thought was best for her students. It can be hard to determine what will work in your class without trying different things. Janet said at the beginning of the case that this was the most diverse group of students she has ever had. With that being said, you can see that she is trying what she believes will work best for her students. I think that Janet is doing the best she can and is learning from how her students react to this new grouping system.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions are that ethnicity can be linked to low achievers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet grouped the students using their benchmark scores but the results inadvertantly groups them by ethnic backgroud.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

I am making the assumption that many of Janet's students come from poor backgrounds with little resources. These students may be having to help with responsibilities of caring for their siblings and may not have the opportunity to learn at home or practice reading. There is probably very little resources or technology in their home, the responsibility of caring for the home takes precedence over studies. They may also come from a home where Spanish is the primary language spoken and quiet possibly the only material they have ever read. Language is a lot easier to learn to speak than to read. Even if a child is fluent in English or Spanish does not mean they are fluent in reading or writing the language. There are many assumptions to be made and many are probably correct but this should not be a reason to think these students will always perform at this level and absolutely no reason to give up on these students. These students need encouragement and someone to believe they can.

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This is a tough question to answer because I have dealt with the same issues in the classroom. It is so hard not to group students according to ability because it is a lot easier to work with students and their individual needs rather than lump them in groups with students performing at different levels. I am assuming that Janet is trying to do what she feels is best for the students so she can work with each student on a more individual level than working with students as a whole group with different levels and different needs. She is thinking correctly but then as a teacher she has to weigh in the thoughts, will students say that blacks and latino's are always going to be lower readers? Maybe she should look at other areas of strengths and weaknesses in reading. Just because a student can read fluently does not always mean they can comprehend well. This would be a type of grouping that she could do that may bring some of the higher readers down into different levels. There are so many aspects of reading that Janet can look at to help decide her groups and she does not need to just base it on a score. The groups could be different every day or every other day, this way no one really knows who is in what group and why. Janet needs to take into account the diversity of her classroom and not set one culture up for failure or the belief that they will fail. There is a balance and that is what she needs to find and understand.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

One assumption I am making about the students in Janet's class is that the majority have not had support at home to foster their reading skills. I assume this because the majority of the students fall at or below the transitional readers group. To be at or below the transitional reading group students must not have additional support and resources at home that encourage reading. Another assumption that I am making is that the White students are higher achievers in reading compared to minority students as a race. While we do not know how the students were tested, all white students were found in the fluent readers group. There was not a single minority student found in this top-performing group. This could be due to socioeconomic status or a higher emphasis on education at home. A final assumption that I am making about these students is related to gender. As a whole, the girls in the class tend to perform better in reading because they make up 80% of the fluent readers group. However, there are just as many early emergent girl readers as boy readers. From this, I assume that the girls are quickly grasping the concepts and are motivated to read.

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Based on Janet's grouping, I assume that Janet initally felt grouping the students based on reading ability was the appropriate way to get the students to learn the most. From this, I also assume that Janet used a variety of tests to gauge their reading level. However, I do not think she realized that all struggling students would end up being of the minority races. I also assume that Janet is very concerned with how the groups played out because they are obviously segregated. I assume that Janet truly understands the importance of diversity because she notices the students being segregated at lunch and recess. Therefore, I assume Janet will try to solve this problem of segregation and develop a new method for grouping her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	From what I see she is basing on ability based on soms standard benchmark, which may or may not work well with the group that she has
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is going by the book, which may lead to defacto segregation

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking

Janet has many readers that are considered struggling. Unfortunately, it looks like the black and Latino kids are the struggling students. The cause of there struggling could be one of a million different reasons.

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Janet has many struggling students. It is her job to help them make the huge leap in reading in 1st grade. I think 5 reading groups are way too many. She should look back at her groupings and see if she could combine any of them into slightly bigger groups. I think she is doing her best with the information at the moment. She has never had a very diverse class and probably isn't sure how to handle it.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am wondering if this is a problem in all of the classes in her school this year or if she is the only one who ended up with such a large number of students with difficulties. She will definetly have to rely on assistance from her reading spcialist to work with the various levels and help them to be successful.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume she created the groups simply because that is what she was told to do. And other than grouping her students, I don't see any other decisions that she has made.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions are that these students are already behind in basic skills because of a language barrier and poor home life. If the teachers can get more parental involvement at a younger age this would greatly help all teachers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Ithink Janet should use a combination of grouping to get better results.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	race has nothing to do with the problem
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	needs to reevaluate

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first impressions of Janet's class is that it is mostly made up of minorities, which in this case, is the majority of the class. More boys than girls are struggling and more Latino's also struggle. Maybe this is because some are ELL, and for this reason there is not much support at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand why Janet grouped her students this way, the literacy coach advised her to do so based on the AYP scores. I think Janet is concerned because she knows that her students are very social at this age and she doesn't think segregating them will benefit in the long run. Janet knows that students learn from each other as well as the teacher.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is not using enough data to help her plan her Reading groups.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I asume this is about gender and race and not reading abilities

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The white students are going to view themselves as the elite group since the top group consist of all whites. The black and Latino students are going to see themselves as failures due to being in the lowest and second to lowest reading groups. Over half of the class are emergent readers or below and consist of black and Latino students. Seven out of the eight students in the lowest reading group are either black or Latino and they receive free-or-reduced lunch. With the lowest reading group having so many strikes against them, they will probably have very low self-esteems and be very difficult to motivate. Since the students have already segregated themselves based on their reading scores on the Benchmark assessment, she does not need to allow that segregation to continue. It will only cause more racist issues and contribute further to the low students viewing themselves as incapable of being successful.

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I feel she does not understand the implications of grouping students based solely on benchmark data. Using the testing data will only create more segregation and prevent the students from learning skills from each other. The more the beginning emergent readers are immersed in the reading material the better chance they will have of retaining the knowledge. The higher students can serve as examples for the lower students and help to extend and expand the thinking for all students. I feel Janet has been mislead by her literacy coach. I believe her coach does not understand how to effectively form groups so that all students will be supported and challenged to achieve.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	SHE IS HAVING GROUPING ISSUES.
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I guess I think the students don't really know any better and need to be taught how to behave and treat each other. Explaining the importance of respect and cooperation could help them realize it and to start acting in a more positive and social way.

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I think that Janet needs to create groups randomly and then make small adjustments for behavioral issues. Random grouping will put kids with people who they may or may not be used to working with, which could help the groups mingle and get to know each other better. Also, having random groups each time will put all levels together so higher levels can peer tutor lower levels and everyone can benefit.

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"It is clear that Janet, focused her decision based on the benchmark data of her students. However, I do not see how the benchmark is the best way to go with making her decision of grouping by the benchmark. It still segregates the students, and by doing this the children will feel the segregation, it can possibly cause low self esteem issues, as well as the feeling of being singled out. I do not see the students in Janet's class benefiting from this process of grouping whatsoever." Student at State College of Florida Tracy Mayhugh

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My assumptions are that the children will not benefit by her grouping process based on the benchmark data. It is not always the best data to use, since every child is individually different. Janet needs to take the time to get to know her students, and make a decision based on the child as a whole, and not just by a numer on a benchmark data sheet." Student at State College of Florida Tracy Mayhugh

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	You think she has kids who CAN'T do the work etc.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	You think she is probably early in her career and doesn't have the whole pie just yet.

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The students need to be grouped with a diverse group of peers academically, not just by gender and race so that they can help each other academically and the focus should be to find the unique ways all of her students can contribute to the classroom and on what can be done to help her students improve in struggling areas.

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The teacher need to be more understanding that when students are having difficulty with academics she should put them in groups that are on diverse academic levels. So, students who are struggling in a particular area should be grouped with students who can help them in that area. Placing them with students who are struggling in the same area and are also struggling to speak the same language is like the blind leading the blind...useless.

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I think that Janet may feel intimidated about grouping her students in the correct way in order for her school to meet AYP. Based on the groups that she put together, it looks as though she placed all of her fluent readers together, and all of her emergent readers together. I don't think this will help her reach the AYP goal because she is not allowing her students to learn from one another. Xochila Minjares Texas Southern University student

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I would assume that Janet is being bias toward the emergent readers because I she is not grouping them with the fluent readers and I think she should, so that they may learn from each other. Xochila Minjares Texas Southern University student

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1. Janet's class is very diverse in terms of ethnicity. It seems base on the benchmark test that the minority students are the ones that scored the lowest. Due to the test results they have all fallen into the same groups and the white students are in the highest group. I feel this is a problem, but a problem that is very fixable. Stackie

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I don't have a problem with the way the Janet's students are grouped. I don't have a problem because I believe in data driven instruction and grouping. As teachers we have to meet students where they are at. Are job is to use our tools to show growth within our students. We can't control what level are students come to us with, but we can control the level they leave us with. I do have a problem with why the minority students preformed so low on the test. I think it looks bad and it feeds into sterotypes. So we as teachers have to do are part to do them. Janet needs to see the glass half full. By that I mean she knows most of her class is low in reading so most of her energy can be focus on bring them up. And if she reaches thoughs students more than half of her students will show improvement on folling benchmark test. Also with this improvemet those groups should so some mixture. Stackie

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	janet has summued up her students as low and slow readers by the way she wants to group them
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	janet really don't know how to get these stdents to learn to read.

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Because all of the White students are fluent readers, this leads me to believe that literacy is and has always been valued in the home. These children were probably read to as very young children - even as babies, and are accustomed to seeing their parents and siblings read at home. I would attribute the lack of literacy skills of the Latino students to the fact that they or their parents may be English Language Learners or that they are learning to navigate between two different languages, spoken and written, simultaneously. I would attribute the mixed levels of the Black students to culture - literacy is embraced and encouraged in some households, but not so much in others. I also wonder about what literacy instruction in previous years looked like for all of these students. What were the expectations of the students by the teacher? Was he/she equipped with strategies to help struggling readers? What belief system did those teachers possess?

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I think Janet is spot on to question whether this "ability grouping" will work considering that the groups are so racially segregated. With social/emotional development, relationships and community being equally as important as academics - this grouping could do more harm to the classroom environment than good. I do wonder how she will address these issues because they are of equal importance. I would hope that she could find a way to use some flexible grouping.

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From the list of groups it seems that Janet's class represents much statistical data and the fears of many American teachers. That some African American, Latino, and ELL students are struggling to learn literacy skills within the American school system. I am assuming that the teaching in school is most similar to the home learning culture of the white students and less similar to the home learning environments of the minority students. I feel that it is important for Janet to try and find skill strengths within all of her students, especially those in the lower reading level groups. Then she can scaffold upon these skills and use them to help all of her students make the greatest possible gains within the year. It is also of extreme importance that Janet does not make judgments about the students' abilities to learn or the importance that a family places on education, based on the students' performance on a standardized test. Standardized tests are not often created with minority cultures in mind.

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I am assuming first that Janet did in fact base her groups directly from the reading benchmark levels, and that no form of racial bias was responsible for this grouping. Without this assumption it is hard to move forward, and make any meaningful observations.

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The students in janet's class need help . But the big issue I feel the students are being put in a category of how they are reading and what the teachers are saying is so rude even if they are not saying it to the childs face. I feel that as a teacher janet should do what is on her heart and change it for the better for her diversity class.

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I feel that her decision is brave and she know that she can do it is just up to her to start it and change these kids ways of reading . As a teacher janet is great by understanding all the kids problems but i hope that since she has more whites that know how to read better than the blacks or hispanic she will make sure that there is nothing different in teaching them as a whole , so she will not single out anyone of her children.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet has a very diverse group of students in her class. She has a good reason to be concerned about how to group the students. I think that it will be best to group by reading level. This will give the students to perform on their reading level and planning for each group will be according to their levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is concerned about the AYP in her school and also wanting her students to show improvement.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that there is a mixed level of ability within the classroom, as well as cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Under these circumstances grouping students by ability is detrimental to the class as a whole. Grouping should reflect mixed ability and backgrounds to allow for peer sharing of strengths.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I'm assuming that Janet is completely focused on data driven instruction. While data must drive instuction, the instruction must be applied within mixed ability groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I really don't think that there is enough information so far to even make an assumption about Janet's students. They are a diverse classroom.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that this may be a good place to start. If she doesn't have several ELL students then I believe that would benefit from language support where another student might just be struggling with reading and not need the language support, this would be a waste of the student and teacher's time.

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I have come to conclude that many of Janet's students in the lower groups come from a lower socioeconomic status, with parents that are not willing and/or able to become partners in helping their children read well. It is clear that the number of students who are below acceptable reading levels are the majority in this class, which tells me that inappropriate interventions have been the norm. The data also clearly suggests that white students have been motivated to learn, while black and latino students have been allowed to fall between the cracks. I assume the teachers thus far do not understand how to appropriately teach in diverse classrooms.

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I assume that Janet's groupings made sense if you look purely at the Zone of Proximal Development data and Benchmark results for these students. I also assume that this grouping will ultimately fail and concrete students into another year of low achievement. Janet made decisions about this grouping without a deep thought process about what will spur students to read better and become interested in the process. She failed to take her groupings to the next level. Students will low reading levels should read books at their reading level, yet in when placed in groups, it would be much better to provide a mix of reading levels with intense collaboration, vocabulary practice and read alouds.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Her classroom is very diverse and the scores they are making on their benchmarks in reading. Based on comments it appears that their is bias towards the "apartment kids" and the ELL kids. With those types of feelings, are the students really being challenges, or have they already given up on them?
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is following the guidance of her literacy coach when she creates groups based on the students benchmark text levels. When looking at the results of her grouping she is aware that there may be a problem with the way she is grouping them. At least she is questioning the grouping and I think she will be watching carefully to see if she will get the results she is wanting.

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The first grade students in Janet's class seem to have a pretty good idea of the cultural differences that exist in the classroom. The "students tend to cluster by gender and race" indicating that they have fallen into groups in which they feel comfortable. Because the students are young, I think that whatever method Janet uses to build a community in her classroom will be effective since the children are still at an impressionable age. Based on the benchmark data it is clear that the white students in the classroom are the most fluent readers in the classroom. Though the location of the classroom is not evident, we can assume that these students come from home in which their parents have worked with them on their reading and communication skills. The black and Latino students cover the rest of the map, indicating that they have come from homes that either does not encourage out-of-school work with reading and the English language or come from homes in which the family has chosen to not assimilate with the American culture and the English language.

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I think Janet has good intentions for the students in her classroom. As she states, she notices the clusters of racial and gender-based groups in different areas of the school and would like to work toward making her classroom into more of a community. I think she focused too much on the idea that she would come out with a great result for a mixture of groups and failed to understand that in this case socioeconomic status and exposure to reading and the English language in these students' households influenced their reading level. I am surprised she did not expect these results before she had divided the students into the five respective groups. It appears as if she does not know her students very well at all based on how she reacted to dividing the students. As a teacher, I would be aware of where my students already live and the type of educational setting they have at home, outside of the classroom. I agree that noticing where her students lie on the fluency spectrum is important for her understand which students need what help in specific areas; however, knowing this information, I think it is important to note that students of different levels can help one another out depending on the students' respective strengths and weaknesses. I think that Janet, at this point, should really just use this tool as a way of getting to know her students and develop a strategy for developing more fluent readers across the board by using techniques that will build a community in her classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first impression was that Janet has a lot of work ahead of her. Janet's students come from a mix of cultures and home environments. Janet will need to make connections to her students' cultures and their parents to help show them the importance of teamwork when it comes to educating their child.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The grouping may not work as Janet has assigned. I believe that she may need to purposely mix cultures and knowledge levels to provide guidance and motivation for her ELL students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	How are the lowest levels going to help each other develop literacy and language skills?
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	To what extent do her pre-conceived notions about race and economy impact her subjective assessment of the children?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	the whites get more home support is a 1st.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	i think she's nervous that others will judge her by the grouping and i think she's scared the children might "live up to" their expectations of their groupings.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet wants what is best for her students. She realizes that her class is diverse, however they need specific reading instruction. Many of her students probably come from homes of poverty and lack in the English language.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet assumed that it is best to homogeneously group her students. The problem with her decisions is that it grouped the students by race and the diversity is separated into small groups. This will not benefit the students as they have dialogue about their reading. On the other hand, the teacher will be able to teach one level per group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students will not grow as much as they need to because they are grouped with others that are on the same level as them. There needs to a peer who can assist them while still learning from them.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is new at this. She will hopefully learn from her mistake soon to improve this.

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It seems to me that Janet's class is very diverese and that her students have a large range of reading levels. Assumptions that I made by looking at the groups that she had created are that the white female students in Janet's class are at the highest reading level and that the male black and latino students are at the lowest reading level. By what she noted it seems like English is not the first langauge for her latino students and this contributes to their low reading level.

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I think that when Janet made the groups she segregated the white students from the black and latino students. By putting the black and latino in the lower reading groups it might lower their confidence in the class. I think grouping is the right idea for her students so they can do work at their own appropriate level but I think they way that Janet decided to go about grouping was not the right way. It seems like Janet wanted to do what is best for her students but didnt go about it the best way possible.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet is very aware that there are issues within her classroom associated with reading and despite her efforts, more work is needed.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that Janet believes that she is doing right by her students and is making well informed decisions.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Students appear to be grouped by race and gender.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I make no assumptions.

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I assuming that many of the children in Janet's class need help. From looking at the benchmark data, most of those students seem to be minority students. Many of those students might feel that other races are smarter than them because the groups are so race oriented.

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I believe that Janet made her decisions based on what the benchmarking data provided. She's knows that there is a problem with it but she is not really noticing how much of a problem it can be. She could change the groups around so that it won't seem like one race is being put before the other. But then again she might be thinking that they need to be in a group with people that are on the same level as them.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That because of the races of the children in the early emergent readers I am assuming that they are also from low economic households that are probably made up of a single mother who does not have time to sit and help her child with homework.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She has done a good job dividing the class up into who needs the most help however, by segregating the children like this she is setting them up for problems amongst their peers. The other children will know that they are in the "slow group" and as a result the children that should be concentrating on reading the most will have little positive motivation to do so.

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Janet has a wide variety of students. As stated, she has white, black, and latino students in her class. It is assumed that her black and latino students are from poor families, as they have free/reduced lunch. She has a few ELL students and so she probably has a hard time communicating with those families. Her white students are probably from middle-class homes whose parents ensure skill practice at home and want their students to achieve.

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I wonder what benchmark she was using, basal, DIBELS/DRA, or other? Was the benchmark used sensitive to students of other cultures or was it designed towards the average white middle class student? She wants to better her students' performance in reading, but is she doing it the right way? I'm not sure that by grouping her lowest students together in this situation will help her students. I think that she can work with those students homogeneously in some areas to concentrate on specific skills. But I also think these students would benefit to work with the other leveled readers in her class. Not just because of various skills, but also to experience other cultures as well.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm noticing all the white children are in the top reading group.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that these children are the ones that will be receiving the most help from home.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is very diverse, but her focus must remain on the end goal, and that is to find a strategy or strategies that will help these struggling students excel academically and socially. She has many struggling students so she must use as many resources as possible.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel that Janet has a great decision to make, but she must decide what is going to be most effective for the class as a whole. She will have to use various criteria in her group selection, but she must be sure that the basis of her selection will be beneficial for the students' learning as well as their ethnicity.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	a montessori environment would allow each child to progress at their own rate where they are related to basic skills - group lessons present new concepts and children are free to persue their interests and work with partners of their choosing.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	i get the feeling that large blocks of time will find these children in their "labeled" grouping - with little opportunity for natural friendships to develop for working partnerships

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students are going to be a challenge because I don,t feel the teacher has the professional development required to teach them. If she would properly group them by understanding their culture and background, she would know how to preceed in the right direction.
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I feel as if it is easy to make assumptions about the socioeconomic status of the students that are in her classroom. Janet does have an extremely diverse classroom which can be very beneficial, but it is also very easy to make assumptions that it would be harder for her students to do well academically if they are lower in socioeconomic status. When they were discussing that the students were 'apartment kids' that is where my assumptions comes from the with the home-life that these students have. It is my assumption that these students might not have parents who did well in school, or are not doing well in their job career, or maybe don't even have a job. Since there are so many students that are receiving free and reduced lunch, the children are not getting as many opportunities in their home life than the White students who are clearly, through the grouping, doing a lot better in the class. It is an assumption that I am also seeing that the students who are of a minority are also the ones who come from poorer home lives, or from a family of a lower socioeconomic status, since they are those that are receiving the free and reduced lunch. Janet's class is full of diversity but it is also very easy to make multiple assumptions based on the case presented and based on her grouping techniques.

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I think that Janet is doing her best to help her students, but I see her as a teacher that might not have as much experience with grouping. It is clear through those groups that there is segregation happening, even if she did not mean to do that. I assume that she has not learned much about the opportunities present to group students in a more diverse way, diverse in their academic abilities. I also assume that Janet has never grouped students before in any of her previous classes. This makes me see that she might not have as much experience with students who do not succeed as well academically. If Janet has had more experience in a classroom, I am assuming that she worked at a school that was more geared towards middle class families rather than the situation that she is presently in. This is probably a situation that she has not run into before, so she does not understand what the best ways are to group the students based on the situation that she and her students are in. It is clear to see that Janet does want to help her students, but it is also clear that it is easy to make assumptions about her as a teacher and as about her teaching experiences through the way that she grouped her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet notices that there is a problem. She is having a hard time figuring out how to fix the problem.Students come to school with different ability levels. Janet has to find a way to reach all of her students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am not going to make any assumptions at this time.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The minority students are in need of the greatest support.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is grouping her students using the data as the determining factor.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that Janet's students aren't getting enough interaction at home. Because it is very important for students to receive support both at home and in school, students who aren't getting adequate amounts of help can often struggle in academics.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is confused on how to approach the reading situation with her students. By making sure the students have individual attention from her, she may be able to track their progress and help the students who are struggling. This will also be helpful to the students who aren't struggling.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet seems to have many students that are struggling. For the most part her struggling students are of other ethnic groups. Most of her groups are made up of the same ethnic group of students. The students are not given the chance to interact with other ethnic groups or students at higher and lower reading levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel she is trying to do what was suggested for her to do. She is right in her feeling that something is wrong with her groups. I feel that sometimes you should try what others suggest and then do what you feel would be better.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The lowest reading group is all minority children in aftercare and mostly with free or reduced lunch, so I can assume they are from poorer, single parent families. They probably don't get a lot of help at home because their parent or parents work late, or do not speak English.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet wants her students to improve, so she groups them by similar level. She sees that they have ended up segregated and she does wonder if that will be a problem.

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I think Janet is not sure how to best group her very diverse class. She has a lot of work cut our for her because she has a lot of student that come from poor homes and who don't even speak english. Most of the students don't have at home support. It will be hard to get the students caught up with the level of reading ability they need to have. Specially considering that most of the students struggle with basic skills.

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Janet has never had a group this low in ability. I think she doesn't know how to best group the students because from looking at he chart of how she grouped her students she put all white students together instead of making the groups diverse. She may have done this because some students know little english. I think Janet needs to get some better advice about how to group these students so they can get caught up with their reading skills.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet may be overwhelmed with the fact that she has such a diverse class with a common problem but with little real solution. She probably will follow the coaches advice,but wonders what's next if this doesn't work.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is frustrated with the demands of meeting AYP with a class that she has not experienced the diversiiiiity with.

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I assumed that Janet's students were being labeled and judged at the beginning of the school year based solely on their race even before the benchmark results came in. Janet was not use to so many different cultures in one room, so in the beginning she was confused on how to handle them, I believe. I also realized that based on how Janet said her students interacted with erach other, they themseleves were not used to working with others that were not like them or where they were from. Vantoni, Undergraduate Student

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I believe Janet handicapped her students from the start. When she notice that she had a diverse group, she should have got to know her student's. Built a teacher-student relationship, and then based on her finding placed or group the student's together; and let them get to know they peers. I notice that Janet was a little bit confused on how to handle her situation, so she tried to get help and ask for advice from her co-workers.I also noticed that Janet knows in order for her and her student's to succeed, they have to work together as a whole. Vantoni, Undergraduate Student

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I assume that the class is racialy diverse but contains a lot of minority groups. It sounds like the students are low achieving and are behind as far as literacy at the first grade level is concerned. The students seem to question her authority and experience socail issues within the classroom. They also seem to have low self-esteem when it comes to acedemic success.

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I think that Janet is trying hard to provide the best education for all of her students. She seems to be a very dedicated educator, but she's at a loss as far as meeting all the individual needs. She seems to be making decisions based both on the students wants and needs. Teachers can't always give students want they want. Janet needs to learn to assert her authority to gsin the respect of her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The Blacks and Latinos have had less exposure to reading at home which directly affects their reading ability. It does not mean that they can't learn, only that they have not had home environments that encouraged or promoted reading.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand Janet's not wanting to have groups that look like they are based on race.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Some do not have educated or English speaking parents.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The groups were based on test scores.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The assumption I would make is she has reason to worry about the plan working because if the plan doesn't work at this grade level how will that affect them when its time to move on to the next grade level.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The assumption I would make about her decision is she is doing what she feels is right for the demographic of her class in the way she best sees them developing in their reading.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume the Latino students are still acquiring language, and that all students in the bottom two tiers are not getting much literacy support at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel Janet is feeling pressure from her principal and the literacy coach to follow their directives.

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There are many complex reasons why the eight students who are in the emergent readers group may be there. Because of the reality of the issue's complexity, I guess I want to be careful about making assumptions about the students. My immediate reaction is that some their profiles, 3 African-American boys and 3 Latino girls, make sense based on what has been documented in some literacy research related to gender and culture. Still, I want to get to know the students individually before I make decisions solely based on generalizations (albeit, useful ones). -Nicole, former teacher and education graduate student

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I sympathize with the difficulties Jane is facing in making her decisions. I am sure that she feels a lot of pressure from many angles, her administrators, the literacy coach, parents, students...Furthermore, as teachers we often feel a sense of urgency to make these decisions quickly because we care about our students. Janet probably made her decision based on what she thought would be the most efficient and effective, and sometimes efficiency comes at the expense of students' individual needs. This does NOT necessarily mean, though, that Janet is unaware that her students' needs are complexly different. -Nicole, former teacher and education graduate student

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think she will have to see as they progress and look only at their achievements. Some may work better if they see how others handle the problems. I feel movement will be often as she progresses.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That she is trying to cover all the information and combine it together . She needs to take it in short observed steps at a time.

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The students segregate themselves on the playground and in the cafeteria. Even though this may be a natural tendency, the teacher desires to encourage interaction and desegregation in the classroom. The test scores seem to reflect this segregation, as well.

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If she groups the students according to ability, she is segregating the students in the classroom. She noticed that her students segregate themselves on the playground and in the cafeteria. Segregating them in the classroom might reinforce that segregation. Grouping according to test scores prevents the lower readers to hear fluency modeled by more proficient readers. Peer reading might encourage less segregation, because she could group students with readers opposite of their own skills. This would allow higher readers to practice fluency, and lower readers with help. This would also prevent humiliation in big group read-aloud exercises.

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I assume that Janet's students do not care about their grades that they are receiving. They are not trying their best and have a lack of effort. From the test scores I can assume that the students are not trying to do well on their benchmark tests.

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The students in Janet's class have the potential to be successful but I feel that segregating them into groups will do more harm than good. If you have groups that include students of all the same reading level, there is no room for improvement or motivation. By integrating all different types of readers in a group, I feel that students have more of an interest to do better and an incentive to achieve. I think that Janet should break her students in a groups with all different reading levels and ethnicities .

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I am making the assumption that the children will notice the separation based on color if they are separated into reading level groups based on the data. It is true that all of the white children are in the highest group, while the black and Latino children fall into the lower groups. If Janet is an experienced teacher, she has probably placed children in reading groups during previous school years. If grouping children based on reading level is the best way for them to learn, then she should group the students in this manner, however, she should integrate the students for various activities so they do not associate color with intellectual capacity. If her students do not yet have a concept of racial differences and skin color they will not pick up on this factor and it will not be an issue at all.

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I am assuming that Janet does not have an racial biases and that she wants what is truly best for her students. I am assuming that she does not believe that a child from low socioeconomic status or a minority does not have the potential of a white student. It is important that even though children might be racially segregated there is not reference to the fact that some students are more advanced than others. Children should all be pushed to work their hardest and hopefully some of the minority children will catch up to the reading level of the white students, eliminating the racial segregation and ultimately improving the childrens' skills.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Even with the diversity in the numbers concerning the racial mixture of the class, her grouping by ability still furthers the racial divisions within the class room as on the play ground as well as the cafeteria. She really is not changing anything for the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet's first trial at grouping was made mostly from the test scores. She needs to look at the dynamics that each students has that adds in the test results. Maybe pairing within the group will help. Or pairing one group with another for certain activities will foster shared learning within the 2 groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Since she has a a very diverse class she confused on how to group them. I think she need to find more information on her students backgrounds or level to group them better.
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If grouping is to be done then I don't think it should be solely based on one measurement or one type of measurement. There are many factors that need to be factored into the equation when you group students. If you group homogenously then those students will only be exposed to the lower end thoughts and concepts. If you were to group heterogenously then each of the students could learn from each other.

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I would be curious to know what materials or texts she is using in her reading instruction. Her class seems to be a diverse group. Is she a white, non-hispanic female teacher? Is she using culturally diverse teaching materials. Maybe some of these students have hidden abilities that haven't yet been uncovered due to the diversity aspect. I also am a proponent of flexible grouping. I believe flexible grouping allows for students to move within groups based on the different skills and concepts being taught.

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I assume that students in Janet's class tend to divide along racial and gender lines, and that this tendency will be reinforced by these reading groups. Further, the students may believe that White students are seen as "smart" and that Black and Latino students are seen as "dumb" and begin to perform to those expectations, regardless of ability or potential. If White, Black, and Latino students are from lower socio-economic homes and similar neighborhoods, they may have more in common that it appears at first.

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I think that Janet is dealing with the pressure of making AYP, has taken the instruction of her principal to implement small reading groups, and the advice of her literacy coach to use benchmark information to form the groups, and made a first try. However, I think that once she saw that the groups were racially segregated, she should explore other groupings, in order to create more racially mixed groupings. I am assuming that she used only the benchmark information, not interests or learning styles for grouping. I'd like to see more blending in the groups, if she must track them by ability.

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She is grouping students according to their test data and the test data has caused her to create a divide with the students according to race. The lower performing students will realize that they are in a slower pace group and perform to that level that is expected of them but if she groups the students according to different reading levels the lower level readers will perform at higher levels because of their peers.

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She simply is not sure what to do. By grouping them according to the data she realizes that she has segregated the students by race. She feels this is wrong but is thinking about allowing the data to be an excuse to do so. This is s problem faced my many teachers in the field of education.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That all white kids can read, some black kids can read, and most Latino kids cannot read.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet needs to group the students more heterogeneously so that they can learn from each other, or she can group them by interests. Also, switching up the groups (not having them be stagnant) with each new lesson would be a good idea.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Wow! Janet has many kinds of diversity in her class. Not only with race, but reading levels. And all the white students are on top in reading, and the Latino and Black children are in need of reading intervention. I am not sure why the white students are fluent readers and the other students are not, but Janet needs to group the students in a way that creates a supportive learning environment.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am not sure that grouping the students by the reading level is the best approach for such a diverse class. I think I would create a round robin reading program to allow all the students to read to each other in groups but have the groups change daily or weekly, so that the students are not aware of who is low in reading, but it allows all of the students to practice and learn from each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm afraid to assume anything. I am uncomfortable with the idea that all the "fluent readers" are identified as white and mostly female. I think group students this way sends an unfortunate message to other students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Again, I'm not assuming much, but I would recommend that she investigate ways to cluster students to mitigate the grouping by race.

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The assumptions I am making about Janet in this case is that she is trying to distinguish the reading abilities of her students, and put them into groups where they will be on a similar reading development level. However, my first impression from looking at the groups are that grouping the students by reading ability is not the best strategy to use. Even though the students are in groups of relatively the same ability, you run the risk of widening the learning gap between the class. For example, when given an assignment, it is likely that the fluent reader group will finish first, while the other groups take a longer time. Another impression I have of the groups relate to the uneven distribution of students into groups. There are many more emerging readers than any other group. Some students may begin to catch on that the groups are based on reading skills and become discouraged with their progress.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think most of her students are probably struggling readers. Like most educators we want every student to succeed.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It appears that Janet student are making some improve in their reading skills.

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I am making the assumptions that the Black and Latino students come from a lower SES than the white students and therefore have had more resources throughout the years. As a result of this, I can assume that the white children are in fact better readers than the children of different ethnic backgrounds because of their upbringings. Also, that the white girls will do better and excel at a faster rate than the white boys since girls usually are associated more with a higher level of achievement in reading and other english, vocabulary, or other related topics. I can also assume that the parents of the white students or kids in the higher reading levels have been pushed harder or have stronger internal motivation compared to the lowest reading group containing all minorities because their parents probably had more time to emphasize these life skills more at home. The Latino and Black students may even have more behavior issues within the class as well because they feel they are not as accepted within the school system or even in society as a whole.

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I can assume just from the way that Janet spilt up the groups that she is a young to middle aged white woman who is worried about the possibly of losing her job if her schools AYP is not met. I'm assuming that Janet did not spilt up the reading groups into groups of race or ethnicity, but simply on how the literacy coach told her to and how they think the students will learn the best. She only wants for everyones reading scores to go up and not for one specific group to be held back, so she divided them based on ability level (ability group) and how they each scored on the reading portion of certain tests. It is obvious to me that the minorities would score lower on these tests simply because they probably did not grow up with as many resources as the white kids taking from the quote "apartment kids". I do not think Janet is a bad teacher or person but I'm not sure I would divide the students this way for fear of certain groups feeling alienated or less important in the classroom based on race alone.

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2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume Janet grouped her students based on the benchmark. Based on her groups currently, students could create biases and might even begin to think they are labeled. Maybe Janet could change her groups according to the skills she is working on for the week. That way her groups are ever-changing and not "labeled" in the low group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The assumptions that I am making about the students is simply that if a child does not speak the language that they are trying to read, or if there is no practice at home then the classroom should provide what's lacking.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assume that she will realize that her grouping might not be effective, and make the necessary changes best for her students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I feel the students in Janet's group should be reached at the level they are and strive everyday to help that student progress from the level they are at. I feel that Janet can also group the children by levels to eliminate problems it may cause.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet will be able to help the children, if they are reached from the level they are at. We as educators can motivate students to strive harder if they are rewarded to push themselves as well to learn.

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I don’t know what she is thinking about this, I guess Janet feels like she needs to improve her students’ reading performance and get them on their level. She gets it that first grade is a critical year for reading development and she is committed to offering her students the best instruction possible. You have to follow the trends in the data that you have something like this come about. I think that she should place the students' in groups based on their current levels. This will allow her to help the ones that are in real critical need of the help and skip the ones that maybe do not need as much help.

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I can not really make any assumptions in this case, except for the fact that she seems to care about getting the students' on the right track with reading.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students are diverse in ability, just as they are in ethnicity, etc. I base that on the population
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She used test scores or benchmarks. She didn't consider diverse groups, or combining groups by other strengths: good readers who might not be good spellers with students who are good spellers, but not good readers. She doesn't recognize the racial segregation she's created in her classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students may not be doing very well but that can come from the style of teaching Jant is doing.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is going by the children outside factors instead of examining her teaching style and methods of doing so. I believe the literacy instructor is exacty right when they stated "The literacy coach suggested that his colleagues “set aside where these kids come from and focus on what they need." He recommended that each teacher create groups based on the benchmark text levels."

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That the students in the lower level reading groups are from lower income families, possibly with little support at home. Also, the Latinos who are in the lowest level may not have much English language knowledge.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That Janet is trying to group her students according to reading level so that the groups are at the same stage of reading, however by doing this there is 'default segregation', especially with the Latinos children who have less English language knowledge.

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These students are obviously not learning on an equal level. The reason I believe this is because all of the white students in Janet's class are fluent readers and there is no other race is included. Also all of the Latino's are below Early Fluent Readers in Janet's class.

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Janet needs to start getting to know each child on and individual basis and find out what their particular need is to improve there academics. She should not put all the children together who may be having the same academic issues but she should group students by having as diverse a group as possible. All students can learn from each other so, there should be a mixture of gender, race, academic backgroup, socioeconimic backgroud etc. in order to have an effective and fair cooperative learning experience.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	these students come from homes where there is very little at home reading material and parents who do not have strong educational backgrounds of their own.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumption is that Janet's Students are lacking prerequisite skill, and the class is culturally revelantly diverse. Her data shows low performance and high demorgaphics diversity.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	My assumption is that Janet is relying solely on the data to group her students.I think she should use student performance and teacher observation to group her students, too.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that her groups are mainly separated by race and ethnicity even though they are based on reading marks.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I agree with the teacher in this case, I do not think her class will learn as much in these groups because they will notice the segregation and once again fall behind. I think she needs to reconsider or alter her approach a bit. Possibly rotating groups.

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Several students in her class were probably not successful in kindergarten. They lack the primary skills needed to become or emerge as a fluent reader. Kindergarten skills are essential to 1st grade. Most of the students scored low or showed signs of not having prerequisite skills. My assumption is based on the data provided and other details given in the passage about the students' background and lack of knowledge.

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After analyzing her data, I feel that Janet is still uncertain about how she will reach her studnets. She notices that all the poor students are in the lowest groups. I think the data has put more pressure on her because of the fear of labeling, which i am wondering whether she realizes it or not.

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I assume this student population is primarily from a low socio-economic background. Research indicates this student population tends to have more difficulties in achieving success in education. Students in this class could have little parental support for education. If they do not receive family support, the importance the students place on education will likely decline. Also associated with low socio-economic backgrounds is the likelihood of domestic violence and abuse. Teachers must make it a priority to get to know their students. If a student is enduring an unsafe or unhealthy home environment, thier focus will not be to excel at school.

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I feel that Janet is on the right track by promoting a community of learners within her classroom. She has recognized that outside the classroom however, the students tend to segregate. If she is aware of this issue she is more likely to use this information whe n grouping students for class work or reading groups. Janet seems to be aware that something isn't right with her grouping. Typically if it doesn't seem right, it's not . She has now got to act on that feeling by taking a closer look at her grouping. Although ability grouping may be beneficial at times, it is also beneficial to regroup frequently taking into condsideration additonal factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and relations among student peers. There were no specific guidelines on grouping therefore, Janet is able to regroup as often as necessary.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That the blacks and latinos have the lowest reading levels and don't get much help if any at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She isn't thinking the right way. She should put kids of different levels with together so they can learn from each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in Janet's class vary greatly in their reading ability and when separated by this ability it seems somewhat racist. All the white kids are in the top group, making minority students feel inferior.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet understands that there is a problem but she doesn't know how to fix it. Honestly, I'm not sure if I would know how to either. I wonder how she went about collecting the data to group them.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that several of the students from Janet's class feel like outsiders. They mentioned in the case study that almost all of Janet's students also recieve extra support both during and after class, which leads me to believe that they might think less of themselves and picture themselves as the outcasts.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Some of my first assumptions about Janet are that she is trying to do best possible thing to improve her classes reading level. However, I feel she is thinking about it a little to much. I am not saying that she is making bad choices when it comes to grouping her students, I have always just felt that the best solution to a problem is usally the simplest.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that these students are struggling in reading due to the cultural differences that exist as well as the fact that for some of them they are trying to acquire a second language. I think that some of these students may continue to struggle because of the stigma that may be attached to being placed in the low reading group.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I feel like Janet's decisions are based solely on scores that her students received on some kind of assessment alone. Instead she needs to take into account their cultural background as well as their current skill strengths and needs. If she continues to group by test scores she may not be able to experience the kind of success that she wants with these students

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I believe that students that come from lower income families or poor neighborhoods do not have the resources avalible to learn as well as other children might. They may have lower reading abilities because they lack the tools they need. I agree with Kelvin in that the lack of support by children's parents because of their home situations will allow a decrease in ability to read based on a standard.

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I think that Janet is in a very tough spot. She wants to meet the standard that has been set by her school, yet she doesn't want to put children into reading groups where race is apparently a factor. I believe that she made the correct choice in thinking twice about putting her students in groups where race is apparent. There is an act of segregation when the students are going to see that people of color are in the lower or "stupid" reading groups.

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It is apparent to me that the students are trying and they are wanting to do better but it seems as if they are not allowed to live up to their full potential because of the different stereotypes that have been placed upon them. It seems as if they are all capable of a lot more than they are doing but because of what they have been put to their potential does not seem to be fulfilled.

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I can assume that Janet is not allowing for her students to live up to their potential because she is not givin the students a chance. It seems as if she is fully aware of what the SES has labeled these learners as and instead of taking those ideas and diminishing them she follows them. She seems to be alert to the fact that the students need the help but she is not willing to help them in their needs.

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I think janet is on the right track but still needs to edit the groups. These groups will give students a sense of ethnic superiority the way she has grouped them. Almost all the white students are in the highest level, and the minority students are in the lower levels. I don't think this will motivate students to want to succeed as readers. The Loveless article talks about pros and cons of tracking, and I think in Janets class tracking could be a positve idea, I just think she needs to adjust the way she groups and tracks her students.

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I assume Janet as the best intentions in her grouping. I don't think she has any intention of grouping racial at all, I think she was more concerned with the boy to girl ratios. I think this becuase in her explaination of the groupings she is very concerned with keeping a balance between boys and girls. She also wonders if her plan will work which shows me she is not sold on the idea. I think after she gives it more time to think about she will notice the ethnic variances in the groups. And that will hopefully lead her to rethink her grouping.

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Janet realizes that her lower students are her Latino and Black populations and that those student that are more successful readers are the White population.

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Janet seems to be doing what she thinks is right for her students. She grouped them based on literacy levels. By these students working in groups and being on the same ability level, Janet may be able to teach them skills and reading strategies to help them become better readers. This is not a bad thing unless she keeps them group like this for all that they do. She then also realized that these students struggle in certain areas concering non-fiction and also student choice. She then groups them accordingly which diversifies the groups. Janet should not be looking at the color of the childs skin, but rather the needs that each individual student has and teach to the children accordingly.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Not an assumption, but a very diverse classroom. There are a number of different reading levels and needs in the class. The Latino students are struggling the most based on the benchmark scores.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Teachers are encouraged - no, expected - to use data to drive their lesson planning and grouping.

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I assume that these children are struggling with their schoolwork as emerging readers. The 'minority' in America is the majority in her classroom as there are more African-Americans than European Americans. I will also assume that there may be little educational support at home especially in the case of the Latinos and their English speaking/writing/reading skills. I'm willing to bet that there's minimal nighttime story reading in English if at all. I believe that all children want to learn but they often find excuses for their perceived lack of motivation in order to avoid failure.

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My assumptions continue in that Ms. Roberts probably feels isolated as a fourth year teacher trying to find solutions but the system mandates grouping and she should "trust the process". Janet should trust her instincts more than 'the process' but is still in the mode to please the system. She foresees, rightfully, a problem with the lowest tier of her grouping but doesn't appear to have the support necessary for her to improvise. Besides, a lead teacher/facilitator doesn't always have the experience at every level or subject and he is the one with experience whom she expects to trust. Where's her mentor?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that Janet's class sounds like many classes that are seen today, these kids come from homes with either a single parent or if there are two one of them may be out of work and that is why they are low income. I think that Janet's class is diverse, but the diversity almost plays against them as other teachers assume these kids will not get smarter or will not meet AYP.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has a good idea about reading groups, but it is very clear that by using the groups she has listed , she is integrating the class unintentionally.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	One thing I would change is to make the lower ability groups much smaller and the higher groups larger...just the opposite of what she has. I would want to work with at the most 3 at a time so that I could spend more quality time with those students.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that alot of the kids in her class have not been home schooled on the basics like abc's, and basic reading.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that she cares about the progress of her students, and whether she is doing a good job.

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I am assuming that the students in Janet's class have had few experiences interacting with other children outside of their immediate neighborhoods. Even though Janet made community building a focus of her classroom, the students divided themselves by gender and race anyway. I also am assuming that many students have low academic expectations of themselves. Even if Janet believes in the academic possibilities of her students, other teachers appear not to. if the adults who are teaching the students do not believe in their abilities to succeed, then the students probably do not, either.

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I am assuming that Janet has the best interests of her students in mind. She demonstrated her concern for them by consulting her peers and asking questions. I am also assuming that Janet is beginning to realize the role that culture is playing in the experiences of her students at school. While some students may come from a home culture that is closely aligned with that of their school culture, others may enter the school to prepare them for that particular setting.

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It is obvious that Janet is dealing with a variety of issues in the classroom such as low socioeconomic status, ESL students, and cliques based on ethnicity. I am assuming that some students have more parent involvement and are getting the literacy needs taken care of at home as well as at school which is the reason they are so fluent. You have to wonder if the ELLs in Janet's classroom are reading at home and what language they are reading in the home.

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Janet seems too concerned with homogeneous groups when really she need to have flexible, heterogeneous groups which will allow students to learn from each other. Also Janet may find that she has put some students in the wrong groups and student will need to be moved around especially as their reading improves.

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I am assuming that the students in Janet's class need to be group according to their reading level and that not race should not be a factor. I understand the importance of mixing different academic levels so that students can learn from one another; but I believe in this case that teaching students in small groups at their reading level would not only benefit the students but the instructor as well.

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I feel that Janet is a concerned teacher. I believe that she grouped her students based on reading level, and that it is a coincidence that the students in the different levels happen to be of the same race and/or gender.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My first assumption was that maybe Janet wasn't taking her time in explaning the reading lessons to the students. I also thought maybe because some of the students were able to learn as quickly as others than she might have to put some of her smart kids next to the one who a having trouble, this might help the one who are having trouble learn the subject quicker if their peer explains it to them.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think it was a good ideal to have mixed groups. That way one will feel like they are in the slow group or no one will feel like they are better than anyone. I also think instead of just doing something in class she should have the student parents get involved to help inprove the situation.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	This is unfair to the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is being passive.

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The students in Janet's class need a teacher that is going to support them and motivate them to learn. It seems to me that people look at the cover of the book and not the pages. Everyone can learn if someone takes the time to see what works for each child and then builds on that. It may take different time lengths for the child to accomplish the goal but the child is learning. Then you can group the children by what level they are at and then use peer teaching to help the children learn by varing the skill levels of the group. The literacy coach said to not look at where the student comes from but at what skill level they are at. I thought that was a good suggestion.

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I think that Janet is grouping the students by their skill level after the Literacy coach suggested that. She started out thinking about what nationality or culture they were from to make her groups.

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After reading through the initial case and looking at the breakdown of group #5, I have found myself making some initial impressions of my own. Looking at the data I see that the highest achieving readers are the white females which leads me to believe that these students are the brightest and smartest in the class. On the opposite side of the spectrum we see the students who represent group number five and have students who are barley reading, are all Latino or black, and yet are all the same age as the four white females who are doing so well. I feel as if these students all have different motivation levels and finding what inspires them to succeed is going to need to happen.

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I would be worried like Janet, but I would notice that even though it formed a racial issue it would best suit the children if placed in these groups. The students will need more help in the lower groups and because she placed them in that same group, she will be more likely to give the best instruction in the lesson. There should be time throughout the class where the students are switched around into two person groups so the lower students can be helped from the higher learners and they can be encouraged.

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My assumptions are that she did the test correctly, but that she may need to test more to get an even better reading. If the test came up the same, then she can prove that it is not a racial issue, but one that needs to be addressed with lower income families. There is a higher risk of lower learners in a lower income family and we as teachers need to expect that and push that group up further because they may not be getting the reading and learning skills at home.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Students in Janet's class are in need of reading acceleration. Almost a third of Janet's students are at risk. I am wondering what type of experiences who students' parents had when they were in school? Do they understand how to support their children?
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is like me. Creating a classroom community and a feeling of being cared for is important for Janet (for her students). She is overlooking an important tool - a culturally diverse response to her students. What are their funds of knowledge? She know what they don't know ... what do they know? what are the stories they can tell? How can they learn from one another?

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I assume that the students come from various lifes outside of school which affect their learning. Some of the students may not recieve the support that they need at home in order to help them to succeed even more in the classroom. While other students could be recieve alot of support from outside of school. I would assume that the difference in support at home is a bigger influence on the students reading ability level than the race of the student. Race may play a part becuase of what the parents do for a living or who the children live with but these caracteristics could go for any race of people.

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I think that Janet made the right decision with her grouping. If she is actually grouping them on what they need to learn than that is what is best for the students. In another of my classes we have discussed this and we came to the dicision that if you are going to group then the students should not be stuck in the same group forever. As the students abilities approve or something else is taught that the student is already above the level that it is being taught then they should not be in that group but they should be in a different group.

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What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet's class? Explain your thinking: Unfortunately, Janet's dilemma involves race/gender labeling. This is not intentional, but it does present deep issues. All of her high reading students are white and mostly girls. This could cause the other students to feel inferior to the group. Many of her Latino students are in the lower two groups, and mostly girls. The assumption can be made that these students are low readers because their English and word recognition is limited.

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What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking: I assume that Janet will try her best to rearrange the groups so that they are more diverse. However, this could increase frustrations with some students. She will need to be very careful when mingling the different groups. She must know her students and know which ones can handle a challenge and which ones tend to get frustrated and shut down very quickly.

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It seems that there is a variety of students as Janet mentioned: balanced gender, but mixed ethnically. It seems that she has created a bias about her students. Then when she used the Benchmark scores to put the class into groups she saw that the White kids are all in the top groups, while the Latinos and Blacks are in the bottom groups. She also referenced that the bottom group had students who recieved free/reduced lunches. It seems that the ones struggling may have families that are not as well off financially, so they may not have the materials at home to help learn that other families have available.

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Her decision to group the students is what was asked of her by the literacy coach. However, upon reviewing the information gathered it would be important for her to find a way to make the groups diverse somehow. I would consult the literacy coach for advice. I wouldn't want students to feel that they are being segregated.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	After reviewing the grouping chart and reading level of students, it does appear that many of the latino or african american students are in the lower level. However, if Janet were to dig deeper into basic reading skills she might find that there are more strengths present that are going unnoticed. This could influence her grouping as well.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It almost seems that she is grouping based on one aspect of reading: fluency. She needs to look at the big picture and reassess each students abilities and needs.

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Janet seems to be struggling to come up with a plan that allows her reading groups to be racially and ethnically diverse while as the same time honoring the benchmarks that were put in place by the reading coach. This is a dilemma because group #5 is comprised only of minority of children, most of which come from poor families. These children may need the most attention because they may not receive the support or encouragement from home and must rely only on the groups to foster their reading abilities.

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I think that Janet is questioning whether this strategy will work. In my opinion, it is better to mix the children by abilities because it gives the students a chance to not only learn from the teacher, but also to work interdependently with one another. It creates camaraderie in the classroom and fosters a child's exposure to other backgrounds.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Seems just about like every other class I've ever seen.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is trying to do her best. She is noticing lots and thinking things through while getting conflicting advice from different people.

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I feel that the students in Janet’s class are faced with a challenges because of their lack of reading skills. This problem is going to take more than a year to correct. In order for Janet to make an impact or change in this matter, she will need the help of the parents, principal and students.

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Janet has never dealt with anything of this matter so this is all new to her. I feel that her approach is right, but it might take a little more work and time to implement. Janet may have to rearrange her students seating order and focus on the children interest when finding reading material. When children are interested in a topic, they take genuine interest in learning how to understand the matter.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Really no assumptions I can make but seeing the reality of knowing how to teach diverse students in your classroom. I think that if this students are mostly on the lower end of their reading levels, parents must be involved in the process so that these students can be the same learning at scholl and at home so that these students have a chance in improving their reading levels.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet realizes that most of her students need some guidance to improve on their reading levels. She hasn't given the grouping project a chance to work, already assuming by who they are and where they live on how the outcome is going to be.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet has grouped her students the way that they intentially group themselves on the playground, cafeteria and class. They might feel more motivated if the groups were more diverse.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is more concerned about meeting the students needs and not where they come from.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Needs to rethink her grouping
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is assuming Black children are slower

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Obviously the groupings that resulted from benchmark testing are already biased. As stated in another first impression response, children may associate being black or latino with failure, while the white students excel in their reading groups alone. This is indication that there is already a learning gap that has formed. A lot of it may have to do with socioeconomic status. How should she deal with this situation? Should she break up the group of all white students? If she were to do so, they do not have a chance of excelling greatly together. On the other hand, lower achieving students may benefit from having the higher achieving students in their groups.

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I am assuming that Janet knows what's going on, and she is confused about how to handle it. I would be the exact same way. This is a difficult situation that involves race and SES; always touchy subjects.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	my impression is that students come different background so that do make up for what they basically already know
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	i think that her decisions could work but only if she push all the students to strive for the same goals

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	If your reading level is that low, you may need the teacher's attention to intervene more than that of other students. I think the lower readers can learn from the higher readers in the class.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	When I first looked at it, I didn't like it. Then I thought they really needed to improve in reading. I don't like it, but it's reality. Could she do both similar achievement grouping AND mixed grouping? What about paired reading across achievement levels? Could there be mixed achievement reading centers, if the groups stay the same?

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I assume that her Black and Latino students do not get much help from home on their reading. I also assume that her white students went to preschool and other programs before starting formal school. I believe this because all of her white students are her fluent readers. The majority of her Black and Latino students are low income and that leads me to believe that the parents are mostly working to pay bills rather than at home waiting to help with homework, etc

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I assume that this type of grouping is not the best for her class. I believe this because there are no fluent readers in any of the other groups. I have learned that students can and do learn a lot from their peers; she should try to put one fluent reader in each group and not all together.

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I assume based on the data and what some of the teachers are saying that most of these kids from from a poor household where education is not the first priority in the home. Some of these kids are in the first grade and still do not know their alphabet, some have a hard time speaking/reading English, and the students usually hang around with the students of their same race.

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Janet is trying to improving the reading performance of her students' and recognizes the importance reading is in the first grade, but it's just the way that she groups them that might make learning for the kids even more difficult than it already is. She should see use the data of the kids reading levels and group the kids' based off of that and not by race becasue in that way the kids' can learn and interact with each other.

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It is easy to assume that there is a big racial barrier in Janet's class. Considering the students understand what their groupings mean, black and latino students can easily be associated with being illeterate and having little chance to succeed. Not only are these groups sending a bad message to the children about equality it also seems as if only the higher achieving groups are going to be the only ones who benfit from these groups. However, having four reading groups in one classroom can be tough. Janet probably does not have enough time to spend with each of the groups therefore some of the high achieving students may feel they are always stuck doing busy work. I think this because in most classrooms with reading groups there is only one teacher to lead the discussions. From my experience I have seen that the teacher usually ends up spending most of his or her time working with the lower achieving students and the higher achieving students are left working on some work sheet to keep them busy. I think that the classroom is going to form an even larger racial barrier because the students can easily figure out which groups contain higher achieving students and which create lower and therefore stereotypes will most likely be formed.

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It seems as if Janet is trying to do what is best for her classroom and her school. It is apparant that she sees that there is a problem with the way her groups are set up. Janet feels at a loss for what to do because she wants to meet the schools AYP standards yet still be fair to her students. Janet also sees the racial divide her groups have caused in her classroom. Janet senses that she is not sending a good message to her students about racial stereotypes yet she still cannot think of another, more beneficial way to group her students. I think this because she notices something is wrong with the way her groups worked out. I also think this because Janet still feels very strongly about keeping up with her school's AYP.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	White students are of higher SES
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She's grouping exclusively on reading proficiency

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Groupsare dividedby gender and race
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She basing her grouping on data

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet is more focused on where the students came from, vs what they know or need.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet should group her students according to her data, regardless of their race.

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Based on the information provided, I assume that the students in Janet's class have become more comfortable associating with peers that are of their own race and gender. It seems that the majority of Janet's students are performing below what would be considered a proficient first grade reader.

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Janet seems devoted to her students and their best interests. However, the idea of grouping students based on their reading "level" is not always appropriate. Quality reading instruction is data-driven. If Janet is using only a reading level to group students, she is abandoning her anecdotal notes, her informal data, and her own teacher judgement on what are best practices for this particular group of students. Grouping students by ability can be very harmful to their confidence as readers. If you group only early emergent readers together, then they don't have the opportunities to hear what reading should sound like from their peers. If you group only proficient readers together, then they won't have opportunities to share their knowledge with their peers.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumption is that the students did not demonstrate understanding of the material tested.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming Janet is questioning the validity of the benchmark test and whether or not she should do what she was told and group the students solely on the results of that test.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students come from a low income family with a small amount of education. Over the years I've found the lower income or poverty students tend to struggle more in the black and latino groups then the whites.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet is probably use to labeling her groups by their levels and maybe, she should try to combine the levels as means to see if the students will comprehend or perform better.

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Because the students reading levels are so low, I assume that they have not had the best experience in school previously. I also assume that their home life is not particularly good. They may have a lack of resources outside of school, which makes school the only place they are able to learn. There is only so much teachers can do, they have to learn outside of the classroom as well.

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I think that Janet is trying to do what is best for her students. However, the groups that are made from skill level are very segregated. With all of the white students in one group, the highest achieving group, it may create a sense of inferiority.It is good that she begins to wonder if these groups will work because if she is trying to create a sense of community in her classroom, these groups will do just the opposite. Also, when the students are put into groups by skill level they have little opportunity to learn from each other and to interact with students that they may not usually be grouped with.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I'm assuming what many other educators, like myself, may be---that the lowest group of students have the odds stacked against them--educationally, financially, socially, language, etc.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet's assessments and methods of grouping have merit. However, I can see the benefit of grouping the student homogeneously for the purpose of instruction, at least 50% of the time. I've tried this method in my own second grade classroom, and I can say that my struggling readers made great strides when grouped with fluent readers.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	From the data given in the report it seems that Janet's class has a few students that come from poor backgrounds, and show a lack of basic English skills. The problem I notice is that these students are the minority(black & latino, and it is these students that she must work the hardest with as it pertains to reading.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe that Janet is making a great effort to ensure that her students are going to recieve the best support possible from their reading groups. However, I fear that she doesn't understand that her grouping of the students seems a tad racist, and that the minority students are being labeled as the low level children.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet must become more familiar with th needs of her students.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The white students are better at tests.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is following what the reading coach and principal wants. Grouping by scores only.

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2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think it is good that Janet realizes there is something wrong with her groups. If these students are left in these groups, then her problem of the students not interacting with other children from other ethnic groups will not change. It is good for these children to learn from each other.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think that she is frustrated and confused.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She is worried about the end results.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumption is that Janet has a very diverse class. I also think that Janet has a challenge in grouping her kids so that the struggling students will not see the grouping as a feeling that their race is "not as good" or that their teacher is biased.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet needs to look at combining the first two groups according to their strengths and learning styles. I also think she should split the lower group according to their learning styles, as well as language and instructional needs. She needs to explore the reasons why the students scored low and address those specific needs in her grouping.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	More than half of her class is below average in reading. It would seem that they have not been exposed to this type of learning at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet is dividing her class so she can address the students's needs. She seems to think that by grouping children who are on the same level together is the best way to instruct them.

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Janet segregated her class as she grouped her students. I can;t help but think the students would do better if she found other ways to group them. She could group them by different skills they needed to improve. This might allow he the flexibility to mix her groups more on ethnicality too. She can't let her students see her separating all of the white students from the others!

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I'm glad to see that Janet's decisions in her grouping are bothering her! She is showing a wrong example to her students even though she is probably doing it unintentionally. Students need to be grouped so that she can teach them easily, but they also need to be grouped so that they can teach each other. When all of the highest abled students are grouped together, they don't have a lot to teach each other. I think she may be starting to think about this as she lines the children up at the end of her day.

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Assumptions I've made about the students in Janet's class are that 1) some students may have been exposed to literary materials at an earlier age than other students, 2) some students may have access to more literary materials outside of school, and 3) some students have seen the enjoyment literacy can bring modeled by people they are around all of the time. At this early age/grade and the fact that it is only October, and school just started, it is too early to make any other assumptions, even for seasoned educators. At 6yrs old, students whose parents and family speak only their native language in the home have only been exposed to full time English for one year (kindergarten), and aren't expected to master a new set of phonetics by the end of that year. Students who don't see the people they trust engage in reading or conversation will not literacy as something fun, and therefore won't discover it's connection to school. And those whose home aren't print rich, simply don't have the resources to reinfore literacy. All of these assumptions are made regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or socio-economic status.

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Assumptions I'm making about Janet's decisions in this case are that in her efforts to group by ability, she is actually segregating her students by far more. I don't believe she's doing it intentionally, however this type of grouping is why her colleagues are making the comments they are making.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The white students are her higher performers and the other ethnicities are lower performers.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe that Janet used data to create these groups but it is showing that maybe the teaching strategies used might not be helping all students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	No assumptions. They need extra support to help boost their reading skills.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I understand her decisions. She was following the advice of her literacy coach.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	They are already below
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She may be giving up.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Students that aren't white are less successful.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	It was probably an accident.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It looks like the groupings generally reflect race distinctions.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	No assumptions. Not enough information yet.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Diversity must be a part of the planning
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That Janet is going to group all non-readers in the same group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think Janet cares about the students in her class and wants them to reach their potential; however, I think she was just having a hard time figuring out the right way to group students for reading.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet wanted to make the best choice for the benefit of her students; however, I think she realized that was easier said than done. She did not want to hold students back from reaching their highest potential. However, she was having a hard time grouping the students in a way that would involve different races and ethnic backgrounds.

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Based on the make up of each group, I can assume that there is a difference in the reading exposure amongst cultures and this now has an effect on students skill level as it relates to reading.

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Janet "fairly" divided the groups using studnet's benchmark results, although once the groups were created it did not look fair. Janet took the advice of the literacy coach and was able to set aside where her students come from and focus on what they need, however after this was done it was evident that Janet recognized the relationship between what her students need an where the come form in this case.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She had a good idea to group the students.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	First of all she should be grouping good readers with students, that are lacking ability to read. This is the way, students will learn - by using peer help. Why did she group students by skin color?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet has notice that her class is segregated with the white students performing at the top and the students of color are all in the bottom groups. She should be concern that she is feeding into these students poor image of the academic abilities.
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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I think she is doing the best she can.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That Janet is working at her highest level of understanding.

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I assume that Janet wanted to group her students by ability so that she could target each student's areas of need. It seems that she is uncomfortable with the fact that her highest group is all white students. I think she wants to promote diversity in her classroom and is afraid if she groups the students this way they won't be a diverse group of students. She can incorporate diversity other ways in the classroom so that the students still receive small group instruction based on their needs.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	The students in Janet's lowest classes may be from homes where they might not get a lot of time with the parents or they may not have parental support at home.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that she is right to group them by levels but she may want to try some groups where they get to work with others as well. So maybe make sure that they are in a reading group with like readers and then work on other skills with a different group of students.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	She moved too quickly and has not done enough homework
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	That she has way too many people trying to give her data.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's students are very much like the students at my school.
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Although I am careful to remind myself that I do not know the circumstances surrounding each student's life, I have assumed that there is a correlation between parental availability, poverty, and student reading abilities. I based this assumption on the fact that more students who attend after school programs and receive free or reduced school lunch are present in the Early Emergent Readers group. I do not know the family situation for any of these children, and lack of parent availability after school does not necessarily mean that they are uninvolved or in poverty. Still, it is possible that parents with little time after school may find less time to read with their students. This also could mean that students are completing their homework at the after school program, and that parents feel that they do not need to do any additional work with their students at home. It also appears that there is a correlation between the presence of minority students in lower reading groups and Caucasian students in the upper groups. The Early Emergent Readers group consists of many Latino students, from which two are categorized English as a Second Language students. It is also possible that their parents are still learning English, and that this makes at home reinforcement of reading skills challenging. While consisting of nearly the same number of girls and boys, the Early Emergent Readers groups do not contain any Caucasian students and include 50% African American students. The stereotypical assumption would be that if these African American students are receiving free and reduced meals at school and are participating in after-school programs, they may have a less stable or traditional support system at home as the Caucasian students. Finally, it is possible that some of the students in the Early Emergent Readers group may have learning disabilities, whether diagnosed correctly or not, and have not received the correct services to address their learning needs. Finally, I assume that the students themselves recognize the racial and socioeconomic divisions between themselves and their classmates, and I wonder how this affects their relationships with each other.

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I assume that Janet wants what is best for her students, but that she is also struggling with outside pressures to achieve AYP. I believe that Janet feels grouping students based on simply numbers rather than outside factors may be helpful to improving their reading strengths. This will allow her to use similarly leveled books for these groups, and may make differentiating instruction for each level easier for her. In addition, students may feel comfortable reading with students that are on a similar reading level as them, rather than intimidated or embarrassed when reading more challenging books with students from other reading groups. Still, I assume that she does not want to strengthen the divisions between her students, and that she instead wants students of different racial and cultural backgrounds to grow from one another. Although the Early Emergent Readers group is hardly homogenous, mixing students from each categorized level will increase this sharing of ideas. I also assumed that Janet is a young, middle-class, Caucasian teacher since she was unsure of how to address the ideas of race and class, as she may have been in the dominant category of both throughout her life. If this is the case, she may fear being called “racist” by families or outside perspectives that view the groupings. As it is only her fourth year of teaching, she is most likely unsure of her teaching skills, and looks to older colleagues and literacy specialists for advice. Still, I assume that she will do what she believes is best for her students, based on their learning needs and the personal relationships that she has formed with them.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I feel like she is trying to group by ability level and she has listened to the literacy coach. However, upon looking more closely at the groups it seems that the various ethnic groups are grouped together. Since she has little time to work with maybe she can place some higher level readers with the lower level and this may help speed process toward growth on AYP.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I assmume she is grouping them by ability level only.

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The students in Janet's class is not equal in there reading levels. She has worked hard to create a classroom that is culturally equal. She wants them to feel like a family and work like a family. Now that she has benchmarks she realizes, that the students aren't equal academically.

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I think her decisions were made before she knew about the benchmarks. She was grouping kids to work together and learn from each other. I think she realizes that she is going to have to change her groups to give each child what they need. I don't think there is any reason to change the basic concept of her class. In large group activities she can still foster a family type class. She just needs to focus on the students needs when she is working in small groups.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Because of all the deficits and needs of the students, one may make the assumptions that these students might not make great strides in reading this year.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I believe that Janet can look forward to success in her classroom if she works with the literacy coach.

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Janet is in a multicultural environment which brings diversity into the equation of teaching.She is not necessarily stereotyping the students abilities according to ethnicity,gender,or economic differences. She actually seems to be assessing the class as a whole. She points out the differences between naturally developed group.She points out that some groups present higher performances and others less. She notices that certain groups came from different places that might indicate a reason for the lesser level of achievement.

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I believe Janet needs bring the class together as one. The students that dont do well with the students that do will elevate the slower students and promote the class as a whole. This type of approach could prove itself to be affective for the whole class.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I understand why Janet is trying to group her students the way she is, but I am not sure that this will help meet all of their needs. I think she needs to base her groups more on what the students need from her as an educator, not just their "level."
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that she is assessing her students to get their ability level and that she can accurately use that information to form opinions about her students. I would want to know more about the assessments she uses and the kinds of skills the children need to work on at what "level."

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That the grouping is not equally mixed. She only has 5 white children and the rest black and Latino children.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	The assumptions I am making about Jane and decisions in this case is she is wondering if the grouping is equally distrbuted.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume the students in her class come from a variety of backgrounds. I would assume that many of them come from homes where there is less parental involvement and possibly lower socioeconomic statuses. It seems that the white students have better scores while the minorities have lower scores. This seems typical of this type of environment.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think Janet has tried her best and was wise to seek the advice of others. I am not sure if all of the advice she has recieved is appropriate. I would think that she should seek some help from teachers in other schools similiar to her own. I know she is just trying to do her best. I understand her frustration especially in the face of the AYP present.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	It seems that she has categorized them as if she has definitely pin-pointed there reading challenges. These categories are too broad and probably overlap each other. Besides, why does she have them labeled as race instead of by name?
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that she is relying on information she has acquired from sources that indicate that you can determine what needs to be done by focusing mostly on race/culture...I am really not sure what her thinking is, there is not enough information to make judgments.

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I think Janet has a very diverse class. The struggling students in her class are her largest group and are struggling for different reasons. I guess it bothers me that the scores created a group of whites only in the "top" group with minorities in the lower groups.

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I think Janet should mix her top two groups according to their strengths and learning styles. I also think she should look at her eight struggling children and divide them again according to their learning needs and not just their scores. I think her groups need to be more diverse racially. Students do learn from each other. A teacher must consider how students view themselves and their peers, their instructional needs, and their learning styles, as well as their home communities when grouping.

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I don't think I am making any assumptions quite yet, it seems that she has a diverse set of students. I guess my only assumption would be that second-language students would probably struggle more with reading English than native English speakers. I think this because I know how difficult it can be to learn new things in a non native language. It can be very confusing.

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I think Janet is probably just genuinely concerned about helping her students improve in their reading. I do not think she is thinking about race when she creates these reading groups. She just wants her students to do better, like all teachers do. She is trying to find a way to help her students. I think that I believe this because I honestly believe that all teachers genuinely want to help their students improve.

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I'm thinking that maybe these students are from low socio-economic areas and they don't have all of the resources that they need, this could be what is stopping them from doing well in class. There could also very well be ELL's and ESL's as well.

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I think that Janet is a very bright teacher but I believe she needs a little more help in being able to manage her own students. She should know their learning styles and behaviors and learning abilities. She should be able to group these students according to their personal abilities. Grouping the students with students that they can strengthen and help and that will be able to help and strength them

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Groupsare dividedby gender and race
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	She basing her grouping on data

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class has an extremely varied group of students from ability, to social class, to ethnicity to family support. There are clear associations between ethnicity and the kids who live and learn similarly. This gives Janet even more issue to deal with when trying to group students. It might be effective to group by level, but not in this case when each level is clearly separated by race.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Janet wants her students to be placed in a group where they feel comfortable academically. However, she may be completely ignoring the larger issue of ethnicity and achievement in the classroom. She needs to be aware that if she is to group the students, each group should not take on such an evident type of profile. This can lead to a feeling of resentment within the classroom.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Some are low.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	Has low expectations for some students and puts them altogether.

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It is clearly a diverse class with many different backgrounds. It was said that the students often grouped themselves during recess and lunch based off race and gender. Therefore, I would assume that they would feel comfortable with Janet's groups, but the dividing line between White students and Black and Latino students would become more significant. Also, because they would naturally group themselves based on race and gender, perhaps they need opportunities presented by the teacher to work with students of other races and genders. I would also make the assumptions that the black and hispanic students are at lower levels academically than the white students.

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I think Janet is nervous about following through with her groups because they segregate the white students from the black and Latino students. She has worked hard to make an open and accepting classroom community because of the diversity in her classroom. Now, the grouping is going against what she worked so hard to accomplish with her students. I think she is struggling with whether or not the positives of grouping students like this will outweigh the negatives; the positives being that students get help based off their needs and the negatives being that students are segregated (although not on purpose).

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The students in Janet's class are very diverse, but I really don't think she is doing the right thing by planning groups according to benchmarks. You can have all the students that are doing great in one group. Who will they be learning from? If students who have little to no reading comprehension are in a group together, who is supposed to answer questions and help others within the group? I think the students who have proficient reading skills need to be divided among 5 different groups so that they have maybe help the students that are falling behind.

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Janet has great intentions for her classroom and she takes time to evaluate and come up with new ideas. I think it was good to make groups according to benchmarks maybe just to get a feel of where students are at. However, I would have not used that grouping system

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I assume that the students in Janet's class are grouping by race on the playground because it is natural. I think that at this age students haven't quite grasped the concept of race unless they live in an area that is not diverse.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think that although Janet is trying to look past her students' races she is having difficulty because the test results are grouped this way. I think Janet should use their names to group her students not the initial of their race.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	My assumptions about the students in Jant's class is that Janet is overwhelmed about having students with low performance in reading. Ans she knows according to district and state level, she must have a plan in action to move her low students up to proficient level.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	My assumptions about the decisions that Janet made in this case was she confused about how to group her students according to their reading ability.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	This is a normal classroom, under the circumstance. She does want her students to learn, but what kind of environment did Janet grow up in? Its plays alot into this to.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	You can't force friendship and you can't go by any basal. Sometimes you have to use common sense. I believe if a child only hears bad reading he/she will never read. You have to give them more than a little help. They really can learn from each other.What about reading aloud once in awhile?

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	That most of her students are not so good at reading. I am Assuming that most of the students are lower middle class, and that parents are not helping them at home. i think this because, the story mentioned that most of the students were "apartment kids."
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	my assumptions about Janet, is that she did not understand how she was to group her students. she knows the information that will help her make groups. she found out what students are good readers and which ones are poor readers. i think that she should try to find s fun book to have the class read, to get them more motivated to read.

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Here are a few assumptions that come to mind about Janet's kids are: 1) The kids in the lower groups are the apartment kids that were spoken of by one of her colleagues 2) Some of these students can't read because they can't even speak English 3) Many of the lower level students come from families with parents that do not care 4) The white kids come from more affluent families that spend time reading with their children every night 5) The students in the lower groups don't care and won't try 6) The students in the lower groups have attention problems, and can't sit still to read

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I can understand Janet's decision to group the students by reading ability levels. It is very difficult to challenge a fluent reader and help the remedial reader at the same time and within the same group.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	Janet's class is very diverse. She has a significant number of students who are below the benchmark.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I agree with what Gigi, the third grade teacher. Janet should embrace the diversity in her classroom and let the data speak for itself.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the majority of Janet's students are considered to be at-risk in reading. The base of my assumption is the grouping done by Janet and the literacy coach.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that Janet is similar to the majority of teachers at the beginning of the year. You know where the students need to be at the end and getting them there may be difficult.

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There are several assumptions about students in Janet's class that can be made. First, it can be assumed that perhaps all year long the students have been allowed to have partners or group themselves with students they feel comfortable with. Janet says she has worked to build a community, but notices the students still cluster by ethnicity and gender. The case mentions the students that are struggling are the "apartment kids" so I am assuming they are probably also on the free/reduced lunch plans and the extended care programs. That might mean that they do not have a parent at home until later to help with homework if they are helped at all; often parents or family members have to work and are not available to help. Some of the students are ELL and are still learning the alphabet which means they are less likely to grasp the concepts being taught because they are getting "lost" on the basics such as the alphabet. These students are struggling with English, so their families or parents may be less skilled than the students.

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Janet's case seems to be on par with what most teachers are struggling with everyday in their classrooms. How should students be grouped to improve reading outcomes and abilities? What data should be used to form the groups, and should it be data alone? What more can be done? I assume that Janet is on the right track, she wants to do more for her students, and she feels they are capable of more or she wouldn't push them. I assume she notices that there are problems with how the students are grouped, but she is not sure how else to group them and she is doing what was suggested to her by the Literacy Coach. I assume she knows homogenous groups are not as effective as heterogeneous groups because she is questioning the arrangement of the groups; students can learn so much from each other. Students of lower reading abilities can be challenged by those of higher reading abilities. Groups should change and change often. There should not be anything stagnant in a classroom that stifles growth and learning. To avoid becoming stagnant and fostering an environment that potentially ostracizes students along racial lines, students should be grouped in a way that can benefit all students. I am also assuming that she gives equal attention to all students, by this I mean that she is giving them each what they need; spending more time with the lower ability students. The students should not be able to tell what "group" they belong to, nor should they be worried or focused on labels which can do so much damage. Janet is on the right track, she needs to regroup her students. I like what the coach said about not focusing on where the students come from, but what they need. Janet needs to apply this thinking to her groups; the groups should not represent where the students come from either, but should be mixed in a way to help all students succeed.

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1. What assumptions are you making about the students in Janet’s class? Explain your thinking	I am assuming that the white students in Janet's class are probably from more affluent and involved homes than the Latino and African American students. This could explain the difference in performance of the different groups. I figure the lower level Latino students are probably those who struggle the most with learning English, perhaps they have recently moved to the US.
2. What assumptions are you making about Janet and her decisions in this case? Explain your thinking	I think she has a feeling, but doesn't know how to handle it, that the way she has grouped is improper. I think she knows that it is going to look like she has grouped her students racially, since the highest performing group is all white students. It seems to me that Janet seems uncomfortable with this grouping, but doesn't quite know how to group them otherwise.

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