Part 1: Essentially we’ve lived in a world to this point where a D- ‘proficiency’ can still equal a high school diploma.
It’s a great idea… PBGRs. What are some schools doing on this front? What are the consequences of these decisions? What is ‘proficient’ and are we prepared to enforce it? And how / what does this mean to post-secondary education?
Part 1: A conversation about the new ISTE standards and how they can tie to our work here in VT. Be ready to explore the new standards, and delve into the connections between those standards, our VT work in the Education Quality Standards (EQS) and the Transferable Skills, our Federal work that is coming via the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and our upcoming Digital Learning Plan. Participants should bring a connected device and expect to work in small groups to explore a variety of resources and together come to some conclusions about how the ISTE standards and other resources inter-relate. Above all, we’ll have some fun thinking about the ways we see these resources as both challenges and opportunities.
Part 2: Essentially we’ve lived in a world to this point where a D- ‘proficiency’ can still equal a high school diploma.
It’s a great idea… PBGRs. What are some schools doing on this front? What are the consequences of these decisions? What is ‘proficient’ and are we prepared to enforce it? And how / what does this mean to post-secondary education?
Part 2: Digital Citizenship is a topic that we need to address in schools and in partnership with our parent communities. In this session we'll discuss and share what we're doing, where we're going, and steps to get there. Some of Common Sense Media's resources will be shared, as well as others.
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In this collaborative session we will share how Chromebooks can redefine Universal Design for Learning, Differentiation, Personalization and MTSS. We'll talk about engaging digital tools, content, process, product and so much more.
Let's hammer out ideas for
Re-imagining learning with Apps
Maximizing with Classroom
Producing creative artifacts
Kids collaborating effectively
Vermont has several laudable education policy initiatives pertaining to personalizing student learning including PLPs, early college, flexible pathways, and proficiency-based learning. Additionally, we remain focused on addressing persistent equity issues while at the same time increasing learning opportunities for all students. From a historical perspective, all of these concepts can be described under a larger narrative of Open Education, the continued expansion of who has access to a high quality education.
This session will engage participants in an interactive exploration of three interconnected themes in order to develop a systems approach to designing an open education school system that can be instituted locally and also scaled across Vermont. These themes are:
Open Opportunity: Open Education Resources (OER) offer students the ability to access an expanded curriculum and are shifting the role of teachers to be Designers of Learning.
Open Organization Systems – New organizational approaches such as Design Thinking allow schools to adopt a more open, dynamic and nimble disposition towards change.
Open Community – Technology is redefining community and creating new means for developing and sharing best practices across a distributed organizational structure.
A classroom full of questions.
A classroom where collaboration is emphasized, and practiced… over and over again.A classroom where teachers are promoting student voice.
What does that look like?
What are some strategies to make your learning time and spaces with kids more engaging?
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