Suppor&ng Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century
Working with today’s schools-‐-‐ preparing students for tomorrow’s world
West Valley Elementary Parent Focus Group
August 31, 2015 Royce Holladay
Outcomes for Tonight
✩ Iden%fy types of experiences we want for our students
✩ Establish some logis%cal agreements
✩ Form groups for star%ng explora%ons
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Norms for Our Work Together
✩ If you have a ques%on, ask it. ✩ Engage with each other—speak and listen, act and observe, give and take—respecBully. ✩ Say it here first. ✩ Encourage each other. ✩ Remember that everyone here is about puFng students first.
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Ques&ons, Ques&ons, Ques&ons
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Overview – Leslie Mains
✩ Schedule of mee%ngs ✩ November 3 (Share preliminary research) ✩ January – March (visits and repor%ng out in PTO
mee%ngs) ✩ April 4 – Share their models with each other
April 7 – Community mee%ng ✩ May 9 – Wrap for the year
✩ Outcomes ✩ Process we will use
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Involving Others as We Plan
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Design the program
criteria and expectations for imagining and inventing West Valley
Develop the program, based on
criteria and expectations
from the Design
meetings
Implement based on
criteria and expectations, gather data for further input to design
Develop Design Implement
Design
Who: Content specialists, staff members, parents, stakeholders ✩ What? paYerns and outcomes do we want for our students? ✩ So what? programs and ac%vi%es will provide those outcomes? ✩ Now what? criteria do we set for the design?
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Develop
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Who: Content specialists, staff members, ✩ What? approaches and ac%vi%es create the program we want? ✩ So what? structures, skills, and arrangements will shape this program? ✩ Now what? training, organizing, planning are needed to implement this program?
Implement
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Who: staff members, parents, stakeholders ✩ What? does this program look like in our school? ✩ So what? are the roles, expecta%ons, skills, and ac%vi%es that make this work in our school? ✩ Now what? is happening and how does that align with original criteria?
Phase 1 – Focus Group Work
✩ Research the area ✩ Visit other programs ✩ Create resource cache for everyone ✩ Present findings to Focus Group ✩ Teachers present to school staff ✩ Present findings to PTO mee%ng ✩ Gain input from community and teachers ✩ Report back the final conclusion
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Phase 2 – Focus Group Work
✩ Focus Group narrows choice down to 2 areas ✩ Members of the other groups join the 2 ✩ Conduct further explora%on and report back ✩ Teachers reach consensus on the model ✩ Teachers report back to Focus Group with
ra%onale ✩ Conversa%on and decision about the Focus
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Phase 3 – Focus Group Work
✩ Given the choice of program, design the criteria and expecta%ons that will guide the Development Team.
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Our Roles
✩ Robin – Holds the vision and provides leadership toward that vision
✩ Leslie – Acts as point person, managing logis%cs, maintaining documenta%on, responding to ques%ons, etc.
✩ Royce – Holds the process and facilitates the movement forward
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Build capacity to par&cipate & contribute
Stand in inquiry
Understand complex world
Use cri&cal thinking
Be Crea%ve Collaborate Communicate
21st Century Teaching / Learning
What are the curbs?
Program must be ✩ Instruc%onally sound ✩ Workable for all students ✩ Within the school’s fiscal constraints ✩ Preparing students for 21st Century ✩ Within CUSD regulatory parameters
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Form Groups
✩ Group composi%on ✩ Range of grade levels represented ✩ 1PTO ✩ 1 Parent Group ✩ 2 Parent at Large ✩ 1 Teacher ✩ School Site Council and Community at Large
assigned separately, based on numbers
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Areas of Focus to Explore
✩ Science ✩ Art/Performance ✩ Science and Art ✩ Design (focused on 4C’s at all scales) ✩ Project Based
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Next Steps
✩ Organize your groups and develop a schedule/plan for moving forward ✩ Contact Leslie to provide her with details ✩ At the next mee%ng, be prepared to share your progress and intended next steps
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Thanks!
✩ Be in touch ✩ Leslie Mains – [email protected] 408-‐252-‐3000 ext 61145 ✩ Royce Holladay – [email protected]
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