A New Era at Minarets

Kayla West

Angeline DeHart

Michael Vaughan

Brett Moglia

Brittney Slaughter

Richard Chapman

Shout-Outs

Teachers Moving On…

Mike Niehoff Moving On…

I Am Changing Titles…

Director of Charter?

Weight Room Shift

Native American Culture Center

Minarets Phase 2

Activity

Share with your group:

1) What was your most successful project last

year?

2) What are some ways that you assessed

student learning?

3) What is a new project/approach you plan to

implement this year?

4) Share out what someone else shared with you.

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Where are we

now?

Who are we?

Where do we need

to take it?

CommunicationDo our projects teach students to:

-Articulate their learning through multiple intelligences?

-Be responsible in communicating with teacher for

turning work in, editing work, and understanding what is

asked them?

-Publish their work and develop a portfolio that will

demonstrate their work and progress on a large scale?

CollaborationDo our projects teach students to:

-Learn how to lead and follow on a project

with multiple tasks?

-Be responsible for their role in a group

of their peers?

-Brainstorm, edit, and offer their talents

in the design phase?

CreativityDo our projects teach students to:

Utilize their talents and interests to

show mastery of content?

Complete projects at their highest

level rather than for a grade?

Truly learn by having fun but working hard?

Critical ThinkingDo our projects teach students to:

Ask questions that matter?

Struggle through challenges and relish in the rewards

of problem solving?

Solve real world problems that impact

them or people they know?

Community

Are our students

part of a community? Do

they want to be here? Is

it safe to be yourself?

Unit 1

Intro

Formative

Assessment

Summative

Assessment

Unit 2Traditional

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2.

3.

4.

Unit 1

Questions

Big Ideas

Engagement

Project Design

Makers Lab

Collaboration

Production

Edit Mode

Feedback

Enhancement

Showcase

Enrichment

Publish

Portfolio

Review and

on to Unit 2

Minarets

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Why Must We Rush?

Goals for this Year

1.Promote deep questioning

in our teaching.

Goals for this Year

2. Follow our process:

-Introduce/Explain

-Model

-Guide and Be Mobile

-Check for Understanding

-Review

Goals for this Year

3.Develop a Framework for

the Minarets Model. Share

and use to gain

momentum each year.

Goals for this Year

4.Target the Students Who are

Below the Radar and Plug

Them in to our Community.

Who do we do that?

-Instructional Rounds

-Teacher led Professional Development

-Creation of a Minarets Learning Site.

-Student Engagement Project

-Never lose sight of our mission

iBooks Author

Activity

-Create a presentation in

a group of four. This will be

embedded on the week one

sessions site.

-You can use any format but it must look

good and cover your topic well.

-Each presentation must include a 5-10

minute activity.

Group #1

Getting involve at Minarets. What we have

to offer, why students should get involved,

who they can contact to get involved, and

examples of the activity/clubs success.

Group #2

What is project based learning. PBL at

Minarets, the different tools we have, why

PBL is valuable, and examples of what

students have done at Minarets.

Group # 3

How to conduct a search. What is research

and what is googling, how to give credit

where credit is due, how become a master of

the search…

Group # 4

Get to know your teachers! Give a bio of the

teachers and what they teach. Include

interesting backgrounds and interests. Know

you teachers quiz.

Curriculum Pathways