1. The Rigor and Relevance Framework Linda L. Jordan Content Development Director International Center for Leadership in Education

2. Agenda The Rigor and Relevance Framework Welcome Closing Moving Beyond the Basics The 4 Quadrants

3. Holland Michigan 3

4. My Credentials Professor Hope College Doctoral Candidate Director of Content Development International Center for Leadership in Education 4

5. Linda’s Family

6. Why do we need to get to know the teacher? (Linda) Emotion is the gatekeeper to learning Relationship is a key element in every classroom Builds trust Find common threads of interest Fun

7. All We Have In Common With the people sitting near you form a group of 3-5 Create a list of at least three things you have in common. Be ready to share some items from you list with the group. 7

8. Goals for the Session My Goals: Your Goals: ~Give you some applications of brain information to your career, your students’ lives, and the RR Framework. ~Build an understanding of the RR Framework for application to your life.

9. What are the problems the world faces today? 9

10. Who Are the Students We Teach? Digital Natives Live in Global World Parents & Students have new choices – On-line learning

11. Change

12. Common Core State Standards Fewer Higher Deeper The students will be expected to THINK and apply their knowledge Computerized Next Generation of Testing, 2014

13. i-Brain

14. LEVELS OF USE When learning a new strategy, process, or skill LEVELSINDICES Return to Non-Use and the cycle begins again Use requires focus day by day on steps involved. MECHANICAL USE All refinements possible have been made, user now seeks more effective alternatives, new approaches, and abandons the old in favor of the new. RENEWAL No action taken—user doesn’t know about it. NON-USE User has just acquired or is acquiring information and is exploring it. ORIENTATION Use has become routine and comfortable for the user. If changes are made, they are convenient. ROUTINE USE Preparing to use it, finding out more, gathering the necessary materials, and getting organized. PREPARATION User makes changes to improve the process and outcome for students. REFINEMENT Deliberate effort is made to collaborate with others to achieve broader changes. INTEGRATION/ COLLABORATION

15. “The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” --John Schaar

16. Unless we unlearn some of our traditional practices, we will never get beyond an improvement mindset.

17. We are getting better at things that do not matter as much anymore.

18. Making a better “20 th Century School” is not the answer.

19. Shenzhen, China: 1975

20. Shenzhen, China: Today 1980 -Fishing Village 2008 -

21. Port of Shenzhen Source: Atlantic Monthly 1 / Second 24 / 7

22. Projection Keyboard

23. Google Glasses

24. Impact of Technology Wolfram Alpha Flipping the Classroom – Khan Academy

25. Technology by Generations

26. Today’s Students Want to Make Games not just play them…..

27. Impact of Technology Technologies to Watch The Horizon Report 2012 Near Term (1-2 Years) Mobil Apps & Tablet computing Mid Term (2-3 years) Augmented Reality and Game Based Learning Mid Term (4-5 years) Gesture-based computing Amazon: For every traditional 100 books sold, 105 electronic books were sold. (May 19, 2011)

28. Impact of Technology Technologies to Watch The Horizon Report 2012 “Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models. There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenging-based and active learning.”

30. Current System Something Different

31. The Horse The Automobile

32. Henry Ford quote… “If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”

33. Conrad Wolfram… Start teaching math and stop teaching calculating. Sal Khan- The Khan Academy Daggett System for Effective Instruction Some suggesting bold moves….

34. 1950’s School Building

35. 1970’s School Building

36. 2000’s School Building

37. 2010’s School Building

38. Why Change? Career and College Ready 21 st Century Skills Technology Foundational Knowledge Pursuit of Excellence Maximize Potential

39. What is College Ready? Knowledge, skills, and attributes a student should possess to be ready to succeed in entry-level college courses.

40. What is Career Ready? Core academic skills and the ability to apply those skills to concrete situations in order to function in the workplace and in routine daily activities Employability skills (such as critical thinking and responsibility) that are essential in any career area Technical, job-specific skills related to a specific career pathway

41. What are the 21 st Century Skills? Ways of thinking Creativity, critical thinking, problem- solving, decision-making and learning Ways of working Communication and collaboration Tools for working. Information and communications technology (ICT) and information literacy Skills for living in the world Citizenship, life and career, and personal and social responsibility Putting Concepts Into Practice

42. What are the 21 st Century Skills? Collaborative problem-solving Working together to solve a common challenge, which involves the contribution and exchange of ideas, knowledge or resources to achieve the goal. ICT literacy — learning in digital networks Learning through digital means, such as social networking, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), technological awareness and simulation. Each of these elements enables individuals to function in social networks and contribute to the development of social and intellectual capital.

43. Education is changing…. are YOU? How do we get our students ready?

44. Teachers are working hard, however….

45. Schools are Improving School Improvement

46. Schools are Improving School Improvement Changing World

47. Daggett System for Effective Instruction

48. Teaching Organizational Leadership Instructional Leadership Student Achievement

49. Rigor and Relevance Relationships Content Teaching How students learn

50. Brain Geography…

51. The Brain SO WHY DOES INFORMATION FROM THE NEUROSCIENCES MATTER? IT HAS BEEN A CURIOSITY FOR MUCH OF HUMAN HISTORY!

52. Learning is the brain’s primary function.

53. Yesterday’s thinking….. Phrenology – 1840s and 50s an early practice at the end of the 19 th century that claimed to be able to identify mental capacity and character by feeling the bumps of the skull

54. Today’s Science…

55. SPECT Scans

56. PET Scans

57. MRI and fMRI

58. It is possible to see the mind at work!

59. BRAIN BASICS

60. “LEARNING IS THE BRAIN’S PRIMARY FUNCTION…” Frank Smith, Insult to Intelligence

61. Lobes of the Brain

62. Communication of Neurons

63. Photograph of NEURONS

64. Environmental Factors Affecting the Growing Brain Rapidly changing input- MTV Variation in family pattern Diet, nutrition, and drugs Less physical activity, more TV Greater stress, threat, and violence Emotion laden messages —David Sousa, 1998

65. Mirror Neurons in the Brain A new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons -- is active both when people perform an action and when they watch it being performed.