AGENDA & RELATED RESOURCES

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Introduction

• Anchored in reading: What Personalized Learning Really Is (and Isn’t)  (pages 1 and 2) and quick formative check: Windshield and share 
• TED Talk: Why PL Slides

• Employability: 5 Models for Modern Workforce

 

• Complexity of global problems that have local implications
• Key skills we still need to grow in our students and our community
• Role of VA Profile of a Graduate
• Profile of a Graduate (Fairfax Public Schools)
• Habits of Mind icons and related article

Brief #1: Creating a Culture of Respect

• Anchored in reading and quick formative check: Explain It! 
• TED Talk: Strengths-Based Pedagogy Slides
  • High Operational Practices 
  • Blog post from a high school teacher (Mason Public Schools, OH)
• Leader led Focus: Brene Brown – BRAVING (anatomy of trust) and Chalk Talk Protocol (poster and sticky notes) 
• Self-directed Focus:
  • Option A: Reading/viewing and analysis
    • Oral History Interviews that Connect Students and Seniors
    • Article by Yvette Jackson on Transformational Pedagogy
    • Student Voice in IEP Meetings
  • Option B: Design survey tool to check in with students right before or after vacation. Here is a sample to get your ideas flowing.

Brief #2: Redefining Teacher and Student Roles

• Anchored in reading and quick formative check: 3-Way Summary (10-15; 75-100 words) optional —post on Twitter  
• TED Talk: What it Takes to Elevate Thinking of Our Students Slides
• Leader-led Focus: Nancy Sweat and Anita James — Leading and Learning Framework
• Self-directed Focus:
  • Option A: Read Shanna Peeples Interview and engage in Save the Last Word for Me Protocol
  • Option B: Design what questions the teacher might ask as students are in different places in the Learning Pit 

Brief #3: Implementing Quality Instruction

• Anchored in reading and quick formative check: Draw It
• TED Talk: Learning and the Brain Slides
• Example of Vocab Choice Board

• Leader-led Focus: Lorena Kelly on critical thinking and literacy
• Self-directed Focus:
  • Option A: Six Keys to Learning (handout) and Jigsaw Protocol
  • Option B: Outline a typical instructional routine you engage in with students. Then consider how to make it more student centered — how you are expecting students to think, problem solve, and collaborate. Here is a math example to get you started.

Brief #4: Planning for Deeper Learning

• Anchored in reading and quick formative check: Interactive Word Wall 
• TED Talk: Designing Rigorous and Relevant Challenges with Students Slides
• Blog post: Sam Nelson’s Students Designing Units in Social Studies

• High Quality PBL Student Focus
• Leader-led Focus: Meghan Rafferty
  • Modeling characteristics of authentic performance tasks and projects by providing examples from DefinedStem to analyze Figures from McTighe, et. al. (2020)
  • Passcode for accessing Defined STEM: VASCD-DL. Participants will choose “new user” and enter the code, which will prompt them to create a username and password. This passcode is good from 2 weeks from submittal. All users will expire no later than 12/28 and no earlier than 12/14. 
• Self-directed Focus
  • Option A: Examine case study of X day — personalized focus (developed and facilitated with Lana Shea)
  • Option B: Design or refine an existing idea with preview charts from new Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects
    • Figures from Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects 
    • Template from Buck Institute; Examples from Buck Institute; Project wall to manage 

Brief #5: Embedding Assessment and Feedback

• Anchored in reading and quick formative check: PMI (plus, minus, interesting) 
• TED Talk: Quality feedback – What is it, how to provide it, and how to make that part of learning experience Slides 
• Leader-led Focus: Crowdsourcing Tech Tools for Feedback via Google Form. Click here to see responses.

• Self-directed Focus:
  • Option A: Read Grant article – Ed Leadership 2012 and do 4As Protocol
  • Option B: Grading conversation that focuses on growth — bring your grading policy to the table and talk it through with colleagues