CKEC -Kentucky Science Leadership Network NOVEMBER 25 th, 2013 Today’s materials can be accessed at:

CKEC KSLN Facilitation Team Debbie Waggoner Debbie Waggoner, KDE/CKEC Instructional Specialist – Math & Social Studies Dr. Eve Proffitt Director, P20 Innovation UK David Helm Learning & Innovation Specialist, Fayette County Public Schools Dr Rebecca Krall Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor, Dept. of STEM Education UK Terry Rhodes, Terry Rhodes, KDE/CKEC Instructional Specialist – Science Mindy Curless STEM Initiatives Consultant KDE

Welcome, Who is in the room? Learning Teaching Enhancing Supporting Sharing

Throughout the day, please post comments or questions to the website below; it will be monitored throughout the day and responses posted to your questions and comments. Documents from todays meeting can be found on my website under “Professional Learning/Presentations”

Norms  Be an ambassador of “lifelong learning.” Show your enthusiasm for the work, support the learning of others, be willing to take risks, participate fully.  Come to meetings prepared. Be on time, any preparations/ readings completed, with necessary materials.  Be focused during meetings. Stick to network goals/ targets, use technology to enhance work at hand, limit sidebar conversations.  Work collaboratively. All members’ contributions are valued and honored, seek first to understand, then be understood.

KSLN Meeting Stop and Reflect What do I want to remember? How will I use this information, and how will I share it with others in my school and/or district? Yellow Sheet Also don’t forget to do the online Evaluation. We Need your FEEDBACK!

AGENDA 8:30-9:00Welcome; Small group sharing of homework data 9:00-10:00Moving NGSS toward Instruction-whole group PE deconstruction (Think-aloud modeling “I Do, We Do”) 10:00-10:10Break 10:10-11:55Breakout sessions (Deconstruction “You Do”, debriefing) 12:00-12:45Lunch in main room 12:45-1:00District Implementation/Impact Discussion 1:00-3:10Breakout Sessions 1:00-1:40Breakout #1 1:45-2:25Breakout #2 2:30-3:10Breakout #3

HOMEWORK SHARE Break into groups according to the letter in the colored circle on your name tag A Debbie B Becky E Eve C Mindy F Terry D David

Within your group, share your analogies and your S&E practice Facilitators will collect samples/reported data so it can be compiled and shared on Terry’s website

Interpreting the Architecture of the Next Generation Science Standards

Title Assessable Component Foundation Boxes How What Why Connection Box

This is NOT a vocabulary list!

K-PS2-2

Deconstruction-You Do In grade bands, you will deconstruct another PE in the same content area. K-54-PS PS2-2 HSHS-PS2-3 Following deconstruction, there will be a debriefing activity

Break into Grade Bands K-5Hallway w/Becky and Debbie 6-8 Classroom w/Terry and Eve HSMain Room w/Mindy and David Take your materials with you!

Homework Assignment!!! Your facilitator will give you a slip of paper with a Performance Expectation. Go back to your district and, with a group of teachers, use this process to deconstruct and debrief the PE. Bring the deconstruction and debriefing back in January; you will then pair up with others who had the same PE to provide each other with peer reviews.

LUNCH!

Breakout Sessions Red Session: Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions (Hallway) Yellow Session: Student Self-Assessment (Classroom) Blue Session: Looking at Instruction Through the Lens of FfT (Main Room) Start with the session that matches the dot on your name badge

Mindy Curless, KDE STEM Initiatives Consultant Exploring Force and Motion

Rules of the Game 1.ask as many questions as you can 2.do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions 3.write down every question exactly as it was stated 4.change any statements into questions Who’s writing? PRODUCE QUESTIONS

Improve Your Questions 1.Categorize your questions as open or closed-ended. What’s the advantage or disadvantage of each? 2.Change at least one open-ended question into a closed- ended one, and vice versa. How does the phrasing of a question affect the depth, quality, and value of the information obtained?

Prioritize Your Questions From Divergent to Convergent 1.Choose three testable questions. 2.Discuss which question would provide the most useful information. 3.Can you can explore this question in a systematic way? What resources do you need? 4.Design your plan.

Share 1.State your group’s Question. 2.Explain how your group chose this question. What makes this a “good” question? 3.Briefly share your plan to answer the question.

Review 1.Produce Questions 2.Improve Questions 3.Prioritize Questions 4.Design a Plan to answer the “best” question.

QFT Question Formulation Technique Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, co-directors of The Right Question Institute, are the authors of the book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, published September 2011 by Harvard Education Press.

KSLN Dates September 23 October 21 November 25 January 27 February 24 March 24

Go to and click on the Evaluation icon to give us feedback on today’s meeting

See you on January 27 th !

Debbie Waggoner, KDE/CKEC Instructional Specialist Website: Standards Based Grading Ideas: rds-based-grading.html

Supporting Student Self- Reflection and Responsibility How can I align my curriculum, instruction & assessment with clear learning intentions to enable students to take ownership of their own learning?

Packet pg 34

Student Self-Assessment from CASL Packet pgs 35-40

Examples: Packet pgs 41-50

Divide up the 6 Scenarios at your table. As you read your assigned scenario(s), make note of where you see evidence of any of the Five Key Strategies and be ready to share with your table group. Packet pg 51-53

Which of these Five Key Strategies from Dylan Wiliam are exemplified in each Scenario?

GOAL FOUNDATION Enablers FOUNDATION Enablers GOAL CA SL

My Impact on Assessment Teacher Impact on Assessment YIKES!

KSLN Dates September 23 October 21 November 25 January 27 February 24 March 24

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See you on January 27 th !

Terry Rhodes, KDE/CKEC Instructional Specialist Website:

Sharpen Your Eye Read “Mrs. Williams Class” Scenario Read “Mr. DeLong’s Class” Scenario Which classroom most represents highly effective teaching and learning? Why? Looking at Instruction Through the Lens of FfT

Looking back at “Mrs. Williams’ Class” Scenario, what practices, at first look or seem effective?

Choose a practice from “Mr. DeLong’s Class” Scenario and identify where it would rate in Domain 3 of the FfT. Reflect on the teachers in your school and district. How close or far away from that practice are your teachers? What are you seeing?

KSLN Dates September 23 October 21 November 25 January 27 February 24 March 24

Go to and click on the Evaluation icon to give us feedback on today’s meeting

See you on January 27 th !