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21st Century Learning
TRUSD Board Meeting
Feb 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
2009 21st Century Learning
Academy Participating Schools
Joyce
Kohler
Sierra View
Highlands High
Hagginwood
Johnson
Noralto
Rio Tierra
Smythe (7-8)
Grant
Woodridge
Frontier
Pioneer
Regency Park
Westside
Orchard
Norwood
Rio Linda Jr.
Timeline
Aug. 2008
K – 6 Report
Card
Committee
Recommend
s inclusion of
21 C skills
First
Principals
PLC
Session
8 June,
2009
QZAB Board
Approval
7 May,
2009
21st Century
Learning
Academy
Aug, 6, 7, 8,
2009
Current
21 C Initiatives from “TRUSD inception – current“
Principal PLC
10 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
442
Teachers
Trained
15,564
Students
Impacted
• 2010 : Self Direction & Collaboration
• 2011 : Higher Order Thinking Skills & Social Skills
• 2012 : Technology Literacy & Creative Thinking
• 2013 : Cultural Literacy & Information Literacy
Reference Sheet
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
Professional
Learning
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

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21st Century Learning in TRUSD

  • 1. 21st Century Learning TRUSD Board Meeting Feb 15, 2011
  • 2. The Dawning of the Digital Native
  • 3. “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
  • 4. 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
  • 5.
  • 6. 2009 21st Century Learning Academy Participating Schools Joyce Kohler Sierra View Highlands High Hagginwood Johnson Noralto Rio Tierra Smythe (7-8) Grant Woodridge Frontier Pioneer Regency Park Westside Orchard Norwood Rio Linda Jr.
  • 8. Aug. 2008 K – 6 Report Card Committee Recommend s inclusion of 21 C skills First Principals PLC Session 8 June, 2009 QZAB Board Approval 7 May, 2009 21st Century Learning Academy Aug, 6, 7, 8, 2009 Current 21 C Initiatives from “TRUSD inception – current“ Principal PLC 10 Dec
  • 9. Report Card • Brian Briggs ~ Coordinator, Educational Technology • Vickie Plefka ~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Frontier and Woodridge • Rob Meyers ~ Teacher, Garden Valley School
  • 10. • 2008 : Create Unified Report Card • 2009 : Integrate 21st CL Skills into the Report Card • 2010 : Refine the Skills to Eight Essential Skills 442 Teachers Trained 15,564 Students Impacted
  • 11. • 2010 : Self Direction & Collaboration • 2011 : Higher Order Thinking Skills & Social Skills • 2012 : Technology Literacy & Creative Thinking • 2013 : Cultural Literacy & Information Literacy
  • 12. Reference Sheet 21st Century Skills : Professional Development Perspective
  • 13. 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
  • 14. There was a problem! We had no common language.
  • 16. …our staff is developing a shared understanding, and passing it on to students.
  • 17. Now we are off and running!
  • 18. Professional Learning Community • Tim Gardes ~District Librarian, Library Services • Kelly Grashoff ~ Principal, Kohler Elementary
  • 19. 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)
  • 20. 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
  • 21. Digital Learning Academy • Steve Scott ~ Director, Educational Technology
  • 22. Digital Learning Academy with The Metiri Group
  • 23. Pilot Program • Michael Reed ~ Principal, Regency Park • Annette Weiskircher ~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park • Teresa Rowan ~Elementary Teacher, Frontier
  • 24. 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 Professional Learning Community 21st Century Skills Building Capacity District-wide
  • 25. Intensive Professional Development for Pilot Schools Leadership Training for PLC Principals 21st Century Skills Training for all teachers Strategic Professional Development Approach
  • 26. • Professional Development: Teacher Librarians delivered at all elementary sites 21st Century Learning: Professional Development • Analysis of 21st Century Skills • Skill Rubrics
  • 27. • Building and Assessing 21st Century Projects Authentic Learning • Student Engagement Ratings • Integrated Project Templates
  • 28. Project Based Learning at Regency Park Annette Weiskircher ~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park
  • 30. Video Project • Edna Shoemaker ~ Student Learning Coach, Norwood Junior High School • Marc Moorehead ~ Student Learning Coach, Johnson Elementary
  • 31. 21st Century Skills Video Project Captured!
  • 32. 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”
  • 33. 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
  • 34. Goal • Develop one 10-12 minute video for each of the eight skills – Classroom vignettes – Demonstrations – Interviews • Advance learning goals and district vision
  • 35. Involvement • 8 schools – Elementary / Secondary • 24 teachers – Classroom teachers, SLC, & TL • SECC – Liz Rhoads – Doug Niva • $40,000 in-kind
  • 36. 21st Century Skills in Action • Collaboration – TRUSD and Site Teachers – Site Teachers and Students • Technology – Student Engagement – Academic Achievement
  • 37. “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
  • 38. • 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…
  • 39. 21st Century Learning in TRUSD Support, expand, and innovate!