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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