Fidelity Process Session Monday, October 24, 2011 Southwest Region.

Fidelity Process Session

Monday, October 24, 2011

Southwest Region

Process Planning Activity

An Opportunity to Self-Assess

Activity: Stoplight Sort

• Individually rate your LEA/Charter

• Come to consensus• Record consensus on Google

doc.• Whole group share – celebrate

and communicate

http://tinyurl.com/stoplightsort

Celebrate and Communicate

Evaluating Professional Development

Revisiting Thomas Guskey’s work

Activity: Table Talk

• Review professional development evaluation samples

• Discuss items which provide meaningful data to help inform future professional development in your LEA/Charter

Activity: Table Talk

PD Evaluation Methods• Focus group

conversations• Walkthroughs• PLCs• Anecdotal notes• Suggestion box• Informal conversations• Surveying students

Guskey Levels

Level 2Participants’ learning

Level 3 Organization support and

change

Level 4Use of new knowledge and

skills

BREAK!

A Model Approach to Implementing the New

Standard Course of Study

Looking at the

Instructional Technology Standards

Activity: Information and Technology Standards

1. Each group receives a packet of clarifying objectives from the “Sources of Information” strand.

2. Order these clarifying objectives across grade levels (K-12) = vertical progression

3. Verify your work with the IT Essential Standards document.

20th Century Classroom 21st Century Classroom

Time-based Outcome-based

Focus:  memorization of discrete facts Focus:  what students Know, Can Do and Are Like after all the details are forgotten.

Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application.

Learning is designed on upper levels of Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis and evaluation

Textbook-driven Research-driven

Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls

Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world

Teacher-centered:  teacher is center of attention and provider of information

Student-centered:  teacher is facilitator/coach

Little to no student freedom Great deal of student freedom

Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum

Video example?

• Media Literacy: http://www.edutopia.org/media-literacy-skills-video

Future-ready Students for the 21st Century

“Every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st Century.”

~State Board of Education Guiding Mission

North Carolina Description

Future Ready GraduateFuture Ready Elementary Student

(Nicky)

The P21 Framework

Student Outcomes

Support Systems

P21 Student Outcomes

• Critical thinkers• Problem solvers• Good communicators• Good collaborators• Information and technology literate• Flexible and adaptable• Innovate and creative• Globally competent• Financially literate

Life and Career Skills

Flexibility and Adaptability

Initiative and Self-direction

Social and Cross-cultural Skills

Productivity and Accountability

Leadership and Responsibility

Learning and Innovation Skills

Creativity

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Information, Media and Technology Skills

Information Literacy

Media Literacy

Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) Literacy

Core Subjectsand 21st Century Themes

• Core Subjects:• ELA,• World Languages,• Arts, • Mathematics, Economics, • Science, • Geography, • History, Government and Civics.

• 21st Century Interdisciplinary themes embedded into the core subjects

21st CenturyInterdisciplinary Themes

Global Awareness

Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy

Civic Literacy

Health Literacy

Environmental Literacy

Activity: 21st Century Skills

• Create a 30-minute learning activity that addresses one or more of the Information and Technology Essential Standards – and one content standard.

• Once you’ve created your learning activity, take a look at the P21 skills to identify where alignment occurs and to identify the potential to enhance the activity.

Activity: MILE Guide Self-Assessment Survey

http://www.p21.org/mileguide

www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com http://www.p21.org/images/p21_toolkit_final.pdf

LUNCH!

Analyze Resources and Needs

Activity: Brainstorm

What has your district already done or planned to do to update and align district resources to the expectations of the new standards since Summer Institute?

Activity: Get one, give one

Team Time – Guiding Questions

• Which of the resources does your team already have?

• What did you see that could be useful for your team?

• How do these resources fit into your team’s current PD implementation plan?

• Which resources should be the priority for your team?

Reflective Learning Organizations

Culture

Professional Learning Communities

Continuous Improvement

Data Literacy

Activity: Brainstorm Characteristics of a Reflective Learning Organization

Building a Reflective Learning Organization

• Systems Thinking• Personal Mastery• Mental Models• Shared Vision• Team Learning

PLCs

Culture Continuous

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Lite

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Culture

~Dr. Kent Peterson

Culture

Culture

Go to http://FidelityCheck.ncdpi.wikispaces.net

Read the article titled, “School Culture Triage.”

Complete the School Culture Triage Tool individually according to the directions on page 133. Discuss the results at your table.

Continuous Improvement

~Richard DuFour

Continuous Improvement

ContinuousImprovement

What do you have in place in your LEA/School to promote continuous improvement?

Professional Learning Communities

~Peter Senge

PLCs

Activity: What are the characteristics of a high-functioning PLC?

• Discuss with LEA/Charter• Choose top 3 characteristics• Be prepared to share out with the group

PLCs

• Essential Questions – What do we want them to know?– How will we know they have learned it?– What will we do if they have not mastered it?– What will we do when they know it?

Generate SMART Goals to Determine Next Steps

Affinity Diagram

• Prioritize the Stoplight Sort guiding statements that scored 3 or 4.

• Write them on a sticky note.

• Prioritize them as a table group.

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Affinity Diagram

Whole Table • Combine all sticky notes on the table• Organize similar ideas.• Label the categories.• Identify two/three major ideas that

emerged.

Team Planning TimeSMART GOALS

• Work on SMART goals as relates to priorities discovered during the Stoplight Sort this morning.

• Report three ideas that your team will be implementing before the next fidelity check.

Questions for the Action Steps

• What is the proposed activity?• Who needs to be involved?• Who is responsible for doing what

activities?• What are the performance indicators?• What are the milestones? Deliverables?• What is the timeframe?

Closure / Evaluation

Plus / Delta

Homework