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NCEA 2014Morning workshop

Opening Prayer

Overview

• After Action Review (two rounds)

• Break

• Link AAR to Catholic School Standards

• Ed Camp

Objectives

1.Engage in two exercises to help you productively reflect on TWI implementation in your context

2.Learn with and from colleagues in TWIN-CS

3.Provide input for shaping Summer Academy

After Action Review

• Four questions:

1.What was expected to happen?

2.What actually occurred?

3.What went well and why?

4.What can be improved and how?

What makes an AAR productive?

1.Open and honest professional discussion

2.Participation by everyone on the team

3.Focus on results of an effort or project

4.Identification of ways to sustain what was done well

5.Development of recommendations on ways to overcome obstacles

AAR-1: Link Catholic identity to your Two-Way Immersion model

• What did you do to link Catholic identity to your TWI model?

• SPECIFIC EVIDENCE

A) What did you expect to happen?

B) What actually occurred?

C) What went well and why?

D) What can be improved and how?

Link Catholic identity to your Two-Way Immersion model

• What did you do to link Catholic identity to your TWI model?

• SPECIFIC EVIDENCE

A) What did you expect to happen?

B) What actually occurred?

C) What went well and why?

D) What can be improved and how?

1: School team

2: Paired conversation

AAR-2: Support biliteracy and bilingualism

• How did you support biliteracy and bilingualism in grades K - 1?

• SPECIFIC EVIDENCE

A) What did you expect to happen?

B) What actually occurred?

C) What went well and why?

D) What can be improved and how?

Support biliteracy and bilingualism

A) What did you expect to happen?

B) What actually occurred?

C) What went well and why?

D) What can be improved and how?

1: School team

2: Paired conversation

• How did you support biliteracy and bilingualism in grades K - 1?

• SPECIFIC EVIDENCE

BREAK

Connecting AAR to Catholic School

Standards

Catholicschoolstandards.org

•Mission & Catholic Identity

•Leadership & Governance

•Academic Excellence

•Operational Vitality

Ed Camp

• the unconference professional development experience

EdCamp Rulesedcamp.org• free

• non-commercial, vendor free

• hosted by organization interested in furthering the mission of EdCamp

• made up of sessions that are determined on the day of the event

• anyone who attends can be a presenter

• reliant on the “law of two feet”

How to EdCamp--1st steps

• sit down in circle with 6-8 other educators

• consider 1 thing you personally would like to talk about

• write down the 1 thing on a small piece of paper

• Share the 1 thing around the circle

How to EdCamp--2nd Steps

• as a group, determine which idea garners the most interest

• write that idea on the large paper

• get up. look at all the ideas on large paper

• sit down at the one most interesting to you.

Recap Objectives1.Engage in two exercises to help you

productively reflect on TWI implementation in your context

2.Learn with and from colleagues in TWIN-CS

3.Provide input for shaping Summer Academy

Closing Prayer