Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Rigorous and relevant instruction in every classroom, every day Rigor, Relevance, Resources, and Relationships

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Learning Targets I can describe four resources readily available in my school to use to meet the standards of rigorous and relevant teaching and learning for ALL students. I can identify opportunities for teachers to use these resources to teach their subjects well with engaging lessons. What do administrators need to know and be able to do?

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System 12:45-1:45 Get Ready to Move!  Get your flow map  Start in the first room shown  Engagement  Rotate  Repeat  Team time in the media center  Next steps

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Discovery Education Discovery Education supports teachers in accelerating student achievement, bringing the world of Discovery into classrooms to ignite students’ natural curiosity.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Learning Targets I can find a variety of digital media I can search by CCSS and Essential Standards I can create a folder I can create student assignments

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Transforms Classrooms Digital Media Virtual Experiences Challenges and Contests

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Empowers Teachers Content aligned to Common Core State Standards and Essential Standards High Quality, Dynamic, Digital Content Supports Classroom Instruction regardless of technology platform Professional Development Opportunities

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Engages Students Experience fascinating people, places, and events Captures minds and imagination Interactive Lessons Homework Help Featured Programs

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Teacher Features We Will Explore Available lesson plans, quizzes, tasks performances Digital Media Variety CCSS and Essential Standards Creating Class and Student Assignments Creating Assessments

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Let’s Discover Together Go to Create a folder Create a class Find digital media for either an ELA or Math CCSS and save it to your folder Find digital media for either a Science or Social Studies Essential Standard and save it to your folder

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Thinking Maps ® : The Bridge to the 21 st Century Rigorous and relevant instruction in every classroom, every day

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Researchers have extensively studied concept mapping (Novak, 1991) and Thinking Maps (Hyerle, 1996)-pictorial representations of “big” relationships among ideas, objects, and events. Generating visual maps helps learners understand the concepts of similarities and differences, cause and effect, part as opposed to a whole, and analogical sets. Understanding these types of relationships is an essential component of conceptual change and cognitive growth. -Jacqueline G. Brooks. (2004). “To See Beyond the Lesson,” Teaching for Meaning: Educational Leadership Thinking Maps

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Schools promote integrated thinking and interdisciplinary learning. Members of the school community have a consistent set of concrete images for abstract thoughts. Thought processes are represented similarly throughout the curricula and across all grade levels and programs. All members of the school community share a COMMON LANGUAGE for meaningful learning and interacting. Monitoring teacher effectiveness and teacher quality is facilitated when students and teachers are engaged in the use of Thinking Maps. Benefits for Administrators

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Student knowledge is more easily gauged prior to teaching a specific lesson. Teachers empower students by helping them learn how to make learning meaningful. As teachers learn to focus on asking questions, all learners will see the power of using Thinking Maps as a SET of visual patterns for thinking. Connections across curricula are facilitated. Scaffolding of instruction is facilitated with the use of Thinking Maps. Benefits for Teachers

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Students use effective tools to understand complex texts during close reading. Students have visual patterns to work collaboratively for deeper comprehension in all content areas at all grade levels. Students use Thinking Maps for organizational structure and to think critically when planning to write. Benefits for Students

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Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Professional Development Resource NC Education

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Learning Targets ✔ I am aware of PD opportunities for administrators and teachers within NC Education. ✔ I can organize targeted opportunities for teachers to learn how to teach their subjects well with engaging lessons.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Connections to Professional Standards NC Professional Teaching Standards Standard 3: Knowing the Content Standard 4: Facilitating Learning Standard 5: Reflecting on Practice NC Standards for School Executives Standard 1: Strategic Leadership Standard 2: Instructional Leadership Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System SBE Mission Statement Excerpt Preparing 21 st Century professionals with skills to deliver 21 st Century content in a 21 st Century context with 21 st Century tools and technology that guarantees student learning

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System NC Education (Home of NC Falcon) Connecting with Our 21 st Century Learners Digital Literacies in the K-- ‐ 12Classroom Introduction to Data Literacy

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System NC Education Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects North Carolina School Executive Standards and Evaluation Process Understanding Young Student Behavior in the Classroom

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System The North Carolina Educator Evaluation System: Online Tutorials for Administrators The North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards NC FALCON: Student Ownership Module Other DPI Modules

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Next Step: Conduct a Needs Assessment Find the right fit!

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Web 2.0 Tools

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Learning Targets I can name 3 Web 2.0 tools that can be used in my school. I can access and create an account in edmodo.com, socrative.com, and symbaloo.com. I can facilitate discussions with my staff about how these tools can be used to promote instructional rigor, relevance, and relationships.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System 21 st Century Learning

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Socrative.com Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games. On your phone or iPad, go to socrative.com. Click on Student Log In. Enter the Room number and click “Join Room.” Answer this question: What is your favorite TV show?

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Symbaloo.com Create a personal Internet Desktop Organize or personalize websites Open websites or applications

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Edmodo.com Edmodo is a secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts. It provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content and access homework, grades and school notices. It helps educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner. Edmodo New User Group: va38az

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Professional Teaching Standards Standard IV: Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students. Teachers plan instruction appropriate for their students. Teachers use a variety of instructional methods. Teachers integrate and utilize technology in their instruction. Teachers help students develop critical thinking and problem- solving skills. Teachers help students work in teams and develop leadership qualities. Teachers communicate effectively. Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System NC Standards for School Executives Standard 1: Strategic Leadership Principals will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding that schools ideally prepare students for an unseen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it. Standard 2: Instructional Leadership Principals set high standards for the professional practice of 21st century instruction and assessment that result in a no-nonsense accountable environment. The school executive must be knowledgeable of best instructional and school practices and must use this knowledge to cause the creation of collaborative structures within the school for the design of highly engaging schoolwork for students, the on-going peer review of this work, and the sharing of this work throughout the professional community.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Ready or Not… The World is Different... Work is different... Tools are different... Communication is different... Information is different... Kids’ environment is different... And Learning is Different!

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Closing Activity Team collects 4 puzzle pieces. Return to the media center. Locate your team facilitator. Complete the puzzle. Engage in discourse focused on the four resources presented and the current or future use in your building.

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Connecting for ALL Students

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Guiding Questions Is your staff aware of the four resources presented today? How do you know? To what degree are the resources used to meet the learning needs of ALL teachers? ALL students? How do you know? How can you as instructional leader ensure all staff members are, at minimum, proficient with the resources? ( Standard 2a: Helps organize targeted opportunities for teachers to learn how to teach their subjects well with engaging lessons.)

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Next Steps What will you do if/when the resources are not used? What support do you need to ensure effective use of these resources? Share ideas with your team Record insights, questions and next steps Share ideas with your team Record insights, questions and next steps

Nash-Rocky Mount Public School System Reflection Accomplishments Next Steps Needs Where are you? How do you close the gap ? What insight did you gain from this activity?