Welcome to tonight's #EdCoChat guest moderatored by @mcleod focused on Designing For The Future.
Introduce yourself, your name, location, role, and favorite TV show when you were a kid.
I have visited many great schools, but Evergreen Middle School has to be up there. Meaningful tasks, engaged students, fantastic school culture. #EdCoChat
A1: My visit to @hightechhigh to see what @kalebrashad and their team was doing was the most amazing classroom collectives I’ve ever seen. I was blown away by the rigor, relevancy, relationships and student led tasks I saw. Deeper learning student agency, just awesome #EdCoChat
Q2 via @mcleod
In those schools and classrooms, what are the school administrators and teacher leaders doing that make the AWESOME and AMAZING happen? Give us details! If we want it to happen, we need to design for it! #EdCoChat
A1: My visit to @hightechhigh to see what @kalebrashad and their team was doing were the most amazing classroom collectives I’ve ever seen. I was blown away by the rigor, relevancy, relationships and student led tasks I saw. Deeper learning student agency, just awesome #EdCoChat
A2: Yes, we want kids to create, make, design, and pursue their passions, dreams, and interests.
But, think about how you can make one small change to better build relationships with students. It will have a deep impact on both their learning and their life. #EdCoChat
A2: Checkout the 4 Shifts Protocol Via @McLeodhttps://t.co/fWeRP1xVz5
Supports making lessons, units, and instructional activities richer, more robust, and more relevant for the global innovation society in which we now live. #EdCoChat
A2. That's a great list, Jason. Yes, 'pressure' + support, support, support! And 'high expectations' around future-readiness, not just scores on standardized assessments of low-level learning. #edcochat
A2 Ed leaders knew how to manage #edtech intelligently: If students tried to repeatedly take an assessment until they guessed the answer, the school locked the test after the second attempt for 24 hours.
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Q3 via @mcleod
Why don't we see more AWESOME and AMAZING schools or classrooms? What behaviors, structures, and supports do we need from administrators and teacher leaders? What could YOU do? #EdCoChat
A2: Empower students with expectations that strategies are for LEARNING and LIFE:
1) Activate my knowledge
2) Collaborate with others
3) Think about my own thinking
4) Communicate my learning
5) Show what I know
Support learners to prepare themselves for their future. #edcochat
A3. Most school leaders don't do good job of creating expectation structures. They announce lofty initiatives but don't do enough to ensure that they actually happen, happen w/ fidelity, & are impactful. To paraphrase Elmore, schools have weak internal accountability. #edcochat
A2: Intentionally Design around John Hattie’s work. We don’t have to guess what works with kids anymore. We know! Let’s leverage strategies that give us the greatest bang for our buck! #EdCoChat
Bonus via @mcleod
How could you tap into students' ideas, experience, expertise, and enthusiasm to make your school more AWESOME and AMAZING? #EdCoChat
A2. Has Hattie done work on what works for divergent, deeper learning outcomes? Or are all of his factors just for convergent, lower learning outcomes? Different outcomes requires different strategies? #edcochat
A3: There is a lack of a cohesive framework to support task transformation at scale. I love @lpijanowski Blueprint For Deeper Learning which works with @RigorRelevance Framework. We need to be moving everyone, not just relying on lab classrooms here and there. #EdCoChat
Great question, Brother.
Understanding & implementing effective teaching strategies and intentionally designing instruction that include them within a framework like 4 Shifts or Rigor/Relevance gets us closer. #EdCoChat
A3. An impartial list: Organizational inertia + it is easier to keep doing it the old way + perverse incentives for low level learning + lack of support and clarity on what the change looks like in practice. #EdCoChat
I have always struggled with the 'rigor' part of rigor/relevance b/c too many educators translated that as 'even MORE low level learning work.' See, e.g., AP. #edcochat
Love Hattie, reading his stuff always leaves me with more questions ... including that one - are all the effect sizes and correlations toward an end we don’t necessarily want or need? Still, there are good practices and wisdom in those studies, IMO. #EdCoChat
I wonder @mcleod if the some of the why behind why task transformation isn’t at larger scale #edcochat is it’s easy to fall into the habits of easy (just print off the Math Expressions worksheets) or the habits Of always (we’ve always done it this way). #EdCoChat
