1. Good Morning! RET-U Tuesday, June 10, 2014

2. Housekeeping… …where can I get food? Coffee? …email to mentor later today. …PBWorks email will go out this morning. …mileage forms.

3. Nothin’ tastes quite as good as a tall, cold glass of NORMS.

4. Everything in life worth achieving requires PRACTICE. Once you grasp this simple principle, you can focus on strengthening the ATTITUDE, SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE needed to practice with

5. Education Matters

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BmbdzPcrY

8. ON YOUR OWN… What is it you want your students to know and be able to do by the time they leave your school? BUCKET LIST

9. AT YOUR TABLE… COMBINE YOUR LISTS CREATE A POSTER FIND A SPOT TO HANG IN THE ROOM SHARE OUT

10. RULES WORK IN PAIRS DO NOT HUDDLE CAN’T COPY PARTNER’S ENTIRE LISTS! GoGo (aka Give One, Get One)

11. Chat Again… Determine 2-3 most common responses (skills) mentioned during your GoGo. Write them on a poster and hang up.

12. Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009 Communication Skills Collaboration Skills Time Management Interview Skills Personal Financial Literacy Digital Literacy Ability to analyze multiple perspectives Ability to share his or her own perspective (i.e., blogs, social media, and creating original work to post online) Civic Literacy The Tools Needed to Succeed in First Year College Courses, without Remediation Resilience Punctuality

13. Francis Bacon on CRITICAL THINKING Having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences Being gifted by nature with desire to seek Patience to doubt Fondness to meditate Slowness to assert Readiness to consider Carefulness to dispose and set in order

14. How Science Works UC, Berkeley

15. Critical Thinking in NGSS

18. Dufour’s Questions… What is it we want kids to know and be able to do? How will we know when they learn it? How do we know if they are not learning? How are we responding to the kids who are already learning?

19. How does what you believe about what kids should know, align with what you see as successful teaching and learning in the new millennium?

21. Think about yourself as a learner… When you learn something for yourself, what are 5 conditions you expect Do you believe most of our classrooms in today’s schools are characterized by the list we made?

22. What are student’s doing to produce the learning we expect them to produce?

23. IOWA did you know? http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=dMsNct4X_GU http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=dMsNct4X_GU