By deactivating skills in Spiral Review, teachers help students lower rotation time and improve proficiency. Pruning Spiral Review provides greater focus on skills that are vital to course or may be found on state assessment.

GMM Best Practice:
At regular intervals, teachers prune some Spiral Review skills. This practice allows students to spend more time on skills that resemble state assessment preparation or other course requirements.

A suggested time to prune skills from Spiral Review is at the end of a unit. Keep the skills that match the level of rigor as state assessment or semester exams. Remove the skills that were added during the unit that were scaffolding skills. Using this method, when a class reaches Unit 12, the students are still practicing the content from units 1 - 11 that resembles state assessment.