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21st Century Learning
TRUSD Board MeetingFeb 15, 2011
The Dawning of the Digital Native
“For young people, new digital technologies…are primary mediators of human-to-human connections. They have created a 24/7 network that blends the human with the technical to a degree we haven’t experienced before.”
-John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, Born Digital: Understanding
the First Generation of Digital Natives
21st Century Learning Initiatives
• Strategically diversify – principals, SLC’s, teacher librarians, elementary and secondary
• Spread through each neighborhood networks
• Collaboratively created/delivered between Instructional Technology and, C & I Departments
– K-6 Report Card– Principal/Student Learning Coach PLC– Video Project– Professional Development
What is?
Wha
t is?
2009 21st Century Learning Academy Participating
SchoolsJoyceKohler
Sierra ViewHighlands High
HagginwoodJohnsonNoralto
Rio TierraSmythe (7-8)
Grant
WoodridgeFrontierPioneer
Regency ParkWestsideOrchardNorwood
Rio Linda Jr.
Timeline
Aug. 2008
K – 6 Report Card
Committee Recommends inclusion of
21 C skills
First Principals
PLC Session8 June, 2009
QZAB Board Approval
7 May, 2009
21st
Century Learning AcademyAug, 6, 7, 8,
2009
Current
21 C Initiatives from “TRUSD inception – current“
Principal PLC10 Dec
Report Card
• Brian Briggs ~ Coordinator, Educational Technology• Vickie Plefka ~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Frontier and Woodridge• Rob Meyers ~ Teacher, Garden Valley School
• 2008 : Create Unified Report Card• 2009 : Integrate 21st CL Skills into the Report Card• 2010 : Refine the Skills to Eight Essential Skills
Goal
s:
442 Teacher
s Trained
15,564 Student
s Impacte
d
• 2010 : Self Direction & Collaboration• 2011 : Higher Order Thinking Skills & Social Skills• 2012 : Technology Literacy & Creative Thinking• 2013 : Cultural Literacy & Information Literacy
Rollo
ut:
EdTech Website
Reference Sheet
Rubric
Classroom Displays
21st Century Skills : Professional Development Perspective
teacher A teacher B
We do need to teach 21st
Century Skills!
Oh yes, I guess that is important!
21st Century Skills at Garden Valley: A Teacher Perspective
There was a problem! We had no common language.
Two in-services later…
…our staff is developing a shared understanding, and passing it on to
students.
Now we are off and running!
Professional Learning Community
• Tim Gardes~District Librarian, Library Services
• Kelly Grashoff~ Principal, Kohler Elementary
Purpose: To provide a hands-on, relevant professional learning opportunity for Twin Rivers principals that will build their knowledge base around 21st Century Learning and increase their ability to both model and support the development of 21st Century Learning as a core element of instructional design and delivery.
Principal Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Professional Development Components:
• Examining 21st century learning and related research
• Best practices at model schools• Investigating technology applications
for the classroom• Site walk-through visits and Metiri
baseline report
Digital Learning Academy
• Steve Scott~ Director, Educational Technology
Digital Learning Academy with The Metiri Group
Pilot Program
• Michael Reed~ Principal, Regency Park• Annette Weiskircher~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park• Teresa Rowan~Elementary Teacher, Frontier
21st Century Pilot Schools Across Twin Rivers Unified School
District
• Frontier Elementary School
• Regency Park Elementary School
• Harmon Johnson Elementary School
• Kohler Elementary School
Video Project
ProfessionalLearning
Community
21st Century Skills
Building Capacity District-wide
Intensive Professional Development for Pilot Schools
Leadership Training for PLC Principals
21st Century Skills Training for all teachers
Strategic Professional
Development Approach
• Professional Development: Teacher Librarians delivered at all elementary sites
21st Century Learning:
Professional Development
• Analysis of 21st Century Skills
• Skill Rubrics
• Building and Assessing 21st Century Projects
Authentic Learning
• Student Engagement Ratings
• Integrated Project Templates
Project Based Learning at Regency Park
Annette Weiskircher~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park
Teresa Rowan’s Service Learning Project
Video Project
• Edna Shoemaker~ Student Learning Coach, Norwood Junior High School
• Marc Moorehead~ Student Learning Coach, Johnson Elementary
21st Century Skills Video Project
Captured!
Overview
• What do the 21st Century skills look like?– How are they
integrated and applied within our curriculum and content standards?
• Professional Development uncovers “hole”
Uncovered
• Search near and wide
• Criteria– Professional in nature– Clearly communicates what the skill
is– How it looks in the classroom– Teaches specific techniques for
integration– Teaches specific strategies for
student concept attainment and application
Goal• Develop one 10-12 minute video for
each of the eight skills– Classroom vignettes– Demonstrations– Interviews
• Advance learning goals and district vision
Involvement
• 8 schools – Elementary / Secondary
• 24 teachers– Classroom teachers, SLC, & TL
• SECC– Liz Rhoads– Doug Niva
• $40,000 in-kind
21st Century Skills in Action
• Collaboration – TRUSD and Site Teachers– Site Teachers and Students
• Technology– Student Engagement– Academic Achievement
“I made an account for goanimate and made a slideshow for how the earth and the moon were made.”
-Rosemary Benson, NJHS 7th Grader, email to Ms. Ramsay
• When we live – and educate – in the service of our values…
• When our values include “To inspire each student to extraordinary achievement every day! “…
• Students have increased opportunities…
21st Century Learning in TRUSD
Support, expand, and innovate!
21st Century Learning
Urgency