An Interactive Intro to the Literacy Design Collaborative April 21, 2015 – 7:00-8:30pm (ET)

WEBINAR PARTICIPATION See who’s here. Question/Comment for the speaker? Use the chat feature any time during the webinar, either to contribute to the discussion or to get in queue to speak during discussion points. 2

WEBINAR OVERVIEW 1.Welcome! 2.Participant Poll 3.What is LDC? 4.Getting started with LDC: Entry Points 1.Task Templates 2.Mini-Tasks 3.Modules 5.Call to action 3

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LDC CORE TOOLS 5

LET’S FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOU 6

POLL #1 What content area breakout session best fits your role/needs? A.Elementary B.Social Studies/History C.ELA D.Science 7

POLL # 2 What best describes your role? A.Classroom Teacher B.Instructional Coach C.Building Administrator (principal, assistant principal, etc.) D.District Administrator E.Professional Development provider F.Other 8

POLL # 3 What is YOUR greatest challenge in designing and implementing CCRS aligned instruction? A.Finding quality resources that meet my needs- It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack! B.Time to create resources- I can’t work any harder! C.Isolation- I feel like I’m doing this alone! D.Gauging my impact- Is what I’m doing working? E.Competing priorities-I feel like our approach is not coordinated. 9

LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE 10 A movement by teachers, for teachers, for students

Core Assumptions: Teachers are smart Teachers are pressed for time So—we developed tools that guide and provide structure while being flexible enough to allow teachers freedom to adapt, adopt, and revise in response to their knowledge of students, context, and content. HOW IS LDC DIFFERENT? 11

Common Problems of Practice Finding quality resources that meet my needs CCRS/CCSS aligned Target to my courses/grade levels Time to create resources Shared development Isolation Internal capacity building within a system Authentic teacher discourse around the work Gauging my impact Formative and end-of-course assessments Data that captures student learning and growth Data that captures teacher learning and growth Competing priorities Alignment between curriculum and assessment 12

WHAT IS LDC? A SIMPLE FRAME… WITH MULTIPLE ENTRY POINTS 13

SOME COMMON ENTRY POINTS TEACHERS USE LDC TOOLS IN MANY WAYS …ON THEIR OWN OR COLLABORATIVELY 14

LDC CORE TOOLS 15

Core Tools Includes: Instructional Design Tool Teacher collaboration space Private collections capacity Task Template Collections Exemplary and Good-to-Go Modules (curriculum units) Mini-tasks (short literacy assignments) Assessment and scoring resources for looking at student work A peer feedback system for looking at teacher work (Jurying) 16

Task Template Collection

ASSIGNMENTS = TEACHING TASKS 18

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FROM TEMPLATE TO CLASSROOM 20

MINI-TASKS A mini-task is really a mini-performance- task that targets a literacy skill. In other words, it is a short student assignment – usually accompanied by instruction – designed to help measure and/or develop a targeted literacy skill. 21

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MINI-TASKS COMPONENTS A specific skill that is being targeted A product – something students will produce A prompt for the student A scoring guide or rubric that serves as expectations against which the student product will be scored Instructional strategies for the teacher Also: pacing; standards; attachments; curricular information 23

Examine the sample mini-task. What do you notice? How is the MT structured? What seems to be required? What do you think of the content of the MT? How might you use this MT in a classroom? What do you notice? MINI-TASKS 24

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ELEMENTARY BREAKOUT A CLOSER LOOK AT YOUR CONTENT LDC -STYLE Mini-Task Tracking Character Development Modules Primary: Retelling CorduroyRetelling Corduroy Intermediate: Heroes Vs. Villains: Explorers of the New WorldHeroes Vs. Villains: Explorers of the New World 27

SCIENCE BREAKOUT A CLOSER LOOK AT YOUR CONTENT LDC -STYLE Mini-Task CER: Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (responses to a data table) Module Comparing the Chemistry Behind Electricity Generation 28

SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY BREAKOUT A CLOSER LOOK AT YOUR CONTENT LDC -STYLE Mini-Task Reading Photographs Module Calculating the Costs: Atomic Bombs in

ELA BREAKOUT A CLOSER LOOK AT YOUR CONTENT LDC -STYLE Mini-Task Cornell Notes Module Rhetorical Analysis for Pre-AP English 30

COLLECTIONS 31

Imagine possibility and leverage bright spots 32

LDC WORKS… 33 By honoring and leveraging the ‘Wisdom of Teacher Practice’ LDC Teachers at national convening

JOIN THE LDC COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE 34

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37 LEARN Learn at your own pace by participating in a free LDC course pilot. Contact for more information.

TRY Copy a mini-task or module to YOUR library and try it out in your classroom Edit mini-tasks or modules you try to make them fit your needs Create your own mini-tasks or modules from scratch and ask other teachers to try them with you 38

Your mini-tasks and modules by using the collaboration settings What you learned tonight with a friend and try LDC together! Your ideas & questions by joining our Facebook page and inviting your friends! 39 SHARE

JOIN US The key to success is not innovation; it is ‘simplicity and diligence’ applied with fierce devotion to our highest priorities. Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great 40

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