Dates April 14 - Meet to deliver assignments for book study
May 3 - Meet to discuss book assignment
May 11 - Day with Heidi Hays Jacobs (Curriculum 21)
Assignment:
Everyone read chapter 1 (A New Essential Curriculum for a New Time) and chapter 13 (It Takes Some Getting Used to:)
Katie
Chapter 2, pages 18-29, What assessments are we using school-wide? Subject specific? What would be a plan to implement consistency?
Beth
Chapter 3, pages 30-59, How do we revamp/revitalize subjects? Are we doing the most for all? Inquiry? Real-world?
Susan
Chapter 4, pages 60-79, Thinking outside the box with groupings/space. What would it look like? (not just students; but adults)
Ashleigh
Chapter 5, pages 80-96, What are the five trends and how can we maximize use in an elementary school?
Latrease
Chapter 6, pages 97-114, How do we reach globally?
Laura
Chapter 7, pages 115-132, What type of performance-based learning/tasks are we missing and can we do?
Tracy
Chapter 8 & 12, pages 133 - 152 195-209, Do we provide time and experiences creating creative media literate students? If so, what?
Jennifer
Chapter 9, pages 153-167, How do we take what we have to where this is? What pieces of teachnology hardware are we missing? Do we need to look at tech standards for k-5? If so, plan this!!
Heather
Chapter 10, pages 168-185, How do we sustain what we have started and what is new? How should this be documented?
Jason
Chapter 11, pages 186-194, How do we move teachers to exemplary? What is the role of the learner? What types of professional learning should occur?
After reading, please make notes about the content of your chapter and be ready to "share out" at the May 3rd occur?
