2. Let’s Play Ball
No Talking only Movement
If another team uses a ball you have on your
paper, cross it out.
You may not use the same ball as another
team. This will disqualify your team.
Clockwise, each person will have the chance
to get up and throw/catch a ball till the
game ends.
Warning!!!!! This game will move quickly
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3. Literacy Goals Revisited
• Assess systematically to monitor the growth of all, identify
strengths and weaknesses then differentiate based on needs
• Utilize rigorous standards to create the 21st Century learner
• Increase the quality and consistency of reading and writing
instruction with a systemic highly research based cutting edge
program
• Robust instruction in vocabulary, comprehension, in critical
thinking skills, how to engage and think about text as they
read, problem-solve and draw connections between self-text,
among texts, and text-world.
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5. Current Brain Research
This generation struggles with:
• Context
• Transfer
• Part to whole relationships
• Inferential thinking
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6. Ownership of Mobile Media Platforms
Increasing Exponentially 0-8 Years of Age
52%
21%
8%
41%
75%
27%
40%
63%
Any Mobile Device
IPOD Touch/Similar
Tablet
Smartphone
2013 2011
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7. Among 0-8 Year Olds, % Who Have
Ever Used Mobile Devices
Ever Used,
38%
Never
Used, 62% Ever
Used,
72%
Never
Used,
28%
2011
2013
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8. Children Are Accessing Ebooks
Younger and Younger
• Ebook Reading, By Age, 2013
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9%
27%
39%
Ages 0-1
Ages 2-4
Ages 5-8
9. Meeting the Call to Action
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21st Century Skills
Foundational Skills
Personalized Learning Path For Each Student
20. Elbow Partners
1. Find one or two elbow partners
2. Read the text on the next slide
3. Answer the essential question
4. Be prepared to share
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21. Inference
John Fielder could have drowned on his way to
work. His raft bumped over the rocks and pitched
through rapids on the Dolores River in
southwestern Colorado.
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22. Essential Question
What do you infer from this text?
John Fielder could have drowned on his way to
work. His raft bumped over the rocks and pitched
through rapids on the Dolores River in
southwestern Colorado.
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23. NEW and INNOVATIVE: Math
Piloted in K 2013-2014
Skills/Strategies of computation
Fluency of skills
Math vocabulary
Ability to apply math to solve problems
Use math in engaging ways connected to the world
around them
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24. Blended learning
Collaborative conversations with manipulatives
Routines
Work Stations
Authentic assessment including verbal display of
knowledge; self-check evaluation
Multiple pathways to provide personalized learning
experiences
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25. NEW: Research and Inquiry Lab
Computer skills needed to engage in research
Combined with
Skills to determine appropriate sources plus time
to actively research
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38. STAY TUNED…
While you are away on summer break,
We will be planning to further innovate!
In the fall we can’t wait to discuss…
Interactive notebooks for literacy and math
Questioning technique from Harvard Professors
Aspirations and Gaudy Goals
Continued personalized learning pathways
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