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Understand AISI requirements, collaborate, devise measures, and complete school plans to enhance learning environments. Focus on research capacity, community engagement, and collaborative projects. Discuss strategies, balanced assessments, instructional methods, and personalization.
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QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: AISI 5 MAY 2012 PLANNING
While you are waiting… • Go to the following site: http://bit.ly/cesdaisi5 • Enter your school data
Turn and Talk with your table group • What do you hope to get from us today? • What do you hope your teamgets accomplished today?
Our Day: • Understand provincial AISI requirements • Collaborate • Determine measures • Complete school plan
Priorities for Cycle 5 1. Research Capacity/Leadership • Site-based research taken to the next level • Examine current theories of teaching and learning • Read and evaluate published findings
Priorities for Cycle 5 Research capacity/leadership • Analyze findings • Incorporate findings into practice • 10% minimum expenditure {district} • Annual Progress report vs APAR
Priorities for Cycle 5 2. Community Engagement • All projects will be required to demonstrate active and meaningful engagement of key stakeholders: • Administrators • Teachers • Students • Parents • Elected officials • Businesses, organizations and institutions Community Engagement Rubric – on AISI 5 wiki
3. Collaborative Cross-School Authority Projects Additional funding available for 2 or more school authorities to submit one collaborative project Zone 4 collaboration ~ Adolescent Literacy (grades 7, 8, 9) Priorities for Cycle 5
AISI 5 • AISI 5 Projects will focus on all or some of the following: • Student engagement • Student learning • Student performance
CESD overarching question: To what extent and in what ways will our CESD Quality Learning Environment framework improve student learning?
Elevator Speech… What is your strategy? • How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE) with this strategy? • How will you address Balanced Assessment (QLE) with this strategy? • How will you address Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy? • How will you address Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?
Meet and Greet: Large Group 4 Questions • Instructions will be on the screen • When lights are turned off: • Thank your partner • Find a new partner • ReadNEW question on PowerPoint
Question 1: • Find someone who was not at your table • Introduce yourself • What school are you from? • What you are you going to be teaching? • What is your strategy? • How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE) with this strategy?
Question 2: New Partner • Introduce yourself • What school are you from? • What you are you going to be teaching? • What is your strategy? • How will you address Balanced Assessment (QLE) with this strategy?
Question 3: New Partner • Introduce yourself • What school are you from? • What you are you going to be teaching? • What is your strategy? • How will you address Purposeful Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy?
Question 4: New Partner • Introduce yourself • What school are you from? • What you are you going to be teaching? • What is your strategy? • How will you address Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?
BREAK Return to your table in 15 min.
Measures: 2012-2015 • Meaningful to your school • Appropriate to the strategy • Focused on student learning and progress • Part of your 3 year plan…not an add-on
Thinking about your measures… • Purposeful Sampling: Tracking a group of students • e.g. grade 6 students year 1; • same group of students now in grade 7 – year 2; • same group of students now in grade 8 – year 3 • Random Sampling (e.g. 30 students across grades 10-12) • All Students
Examples: • running records; • reading comprehension assessment; • student focus groups; • observation checklist; • classroom feedback loop; • etc. School Measure • How will you regularly measure student progress based on the strategy you have chosen?
School Measure 15 minutes: • Discuss– what are you considering? • Record each type of measure on an individual post it note
YOUR PLANNING • Template • Provide as much detail as possible • Talk with other schools • Project plan reviewed by one of us • Follow up visit in June to review status of your plan • Plans submitted to Lorraine Ewashen by June 15th • Talk with one of us before you leave today…