1. Personalized Learning Networking Session
Who is in the room?
Personalized Learning Networking Session
October 25, 2017

2. Need anything?
Zoe is here to help!
Housekeeping
Thanks Jeffco!

3. OUR NORMS

4. Our Norms You Can’t Be Wrong Make Your Partner Look Brilliant
Beginner’s Mindset
Accept Non-Closure
Fail Forward

5. YOUR FEEDBACK (we heard you!)
August 31st:
Room was too tight; too noisy
Today:
Will strive for flexibility in space and use spaces outside of room

6. YOUR FEEDBACK (we heard you!)
August 31st:
Want to collaborate as school team, district, and network
Today:
Morning with school team, afternoon across network and district time at the end

7. YOUR FEEDBACK (we heard you!)
August 31st:
Want instructional strategies to begin using in classrooms
Today:
We’ll start exploring school-wide strategies today!

8. READINESS SURVEY
“I deeply value collaboration opportunities with other educators and members of my school/district community”

9. READINESS SURVEY
“I deeply value opportunities to understand the experiences of students and teachers”

10. WHERE ARE WE NOW? WHERE ARE WE GOING?

11. Outcomes

12. What is the PL Project? Need Content Assumptions Practices Aligned
Seek To Understand
Assumptions
Practices
Test Ideas
Aligned
Informed
Build Vision PD
Coaching
Learn Skills
Implement
Iterate
Execute

13. Level 2 Level 1 Scale or Scrap PL Networking Session PL SIBE
Personalized Learning Pathway
Site Visits to Observe Activities
Level 2
Hack Mindset Training Session
Short Cycle Innovation Training
Visioning and Strategic Planning/ Project Management
Scale or Scrap
Content training for Implementation schools
Progress monitoring
District network development

14. We are here Exploring Experimenting Defining Needs Visioning Planning
Level 1
PL Networking Session
PL SIBE
Personalized Learning Pathway
Site Visits to Observe Activities
Level 2
Hack Mindset Training Session
Short Cycle Innovation Training
Visioning and Strategic Planning/ Project Management
Scale or Scrap
Content training for Implementation schools
Progress monitoring
District network development
We are here
Exploring
Experimenting
Defining Needs
Visioning
Planning
Preparing
Training
Implementing
Iterating

15. WHAT ARE WE DOING TODAY?

16. THIS MORNING: DISCOVERING
With your school team, you will share observations and learn about others’ empathy-building efforts.

17. THIS MORNING: DISCOVERING
Your team will then seek insights (deeper understandings) from these observations while re-examining how you define your system's end-users.

18. THIS MORNING:
DISCOVERING
Your team will use these learnings to define a challenge based on the unmet needs of your end-users.

19. THIS AFTERNOON:
EXPERIMENTING
With others in the network, you will use design thinking to create potential solutions for a school’s challenge.

20. THIS AFTERNOON:
EXPERIMENTING
This will prepare you to engage in testing these solutions in small ways in your school or district.

21. THIS AFTERNOON:
DISTRICT TIME
After working with your school and across the network, you will meet with others in your district to share and plan.

22. WHAT QUESTIONS ARE THERE
WHAT QUESTIONS ARE THERE? Take one minute to process, then please raise your hand to ask a question.

23. LET’S GET STARTED!

24. QUICK SHARE Share with a partner about your empathy building experience.

25. With your school team (and your facilitator):
DISCOVERING
With your school team (and your facilitator):
Share observations
Seek deeper understanding (insights)
Re-examine end-users
Learn about Big Ideas (at 10:45)
Define a challenge

27. BIG IDEAS FROM DEEPER LEARNING

33. Please rejoin your school team in 15 minutes.
Please rejoin your school team in 15 minutes.

34. Insight
Big Idea

35. Your team’s job...
Insight
Big Idea
Identify 1 Big Idea that connects to the insight you identified during your discovery phase.

37. Big Idea + unmet need= Design Challenge
Define your challenge!
Big Idea + unmet need= Design Challenge
Sentence Stems to help:
How might we design_______ to better _________?
How might we improve _______ for ________?
Example: How might we design student led conferences to better empower students to own their learning goals and use data to inform their growth?

38. Post your team’s How Might We by 12:20pm

39. Dot voting begins at 12:20pm!
Please finish your lunch, vote, and be ready to start by 12:35

41. Why do we use design thinking?

42. Why do we use design thinking?
This is a 50-minute process!
Why do we use design thinking?

43. WHAT’S NEXT?

44. Before you leave today:
Share your personal aspiration for your school at
Meet with your district team
Provide feedback at
Before January 12:
Continue empathy-building: use what you learned today to dig deeper!
Test a prototype developed during the Design Thinking Session. Didn't get a prototype today? Use the design thinking process at your school, or use Quick Wins!
Start planning for Paul and Jon's visit to your school: how do you want to use this time?
As a school team, create a draft version of an aspiration for your school. (We will discuss this during your school visit)

45. RISE UP
Think of the name of one student who motivates you, a student who is your reason for doing the important work you do. If you are comfortable, please take a turn to stand, share the student’s first name, and remain standing.

46. DISTRICT TIME
Please meet with your district leads to learn how to use this time.
Paul and Jon are also available to support your team.
Thank you for your time!