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2008 Oregon High School Institute: June 23 & 24
Transforming Instructional Practices
This two day institute featured a keynote address by Kathleen Cushman, and promising instructional practices from small school administrators, teachers and consultants.
Presentations and materials from the event are listed below by workshop or break out title:
Arts Integration: Pedagogy and Partnerships
Coaching for Instructional Leadership
Introduction to Leading for Education Equity
Keynote presentation 6/24, Karen Phillips & René Léger
Mediation: When Personalization is not enough
Proficiency Based Assessment Systems
Project Based Learning for Differentiation
"Pump it Up": Putting Rigor into Project Based Learning
Raising Student Voice through Student Summit
Using the Power of Small to Promote Student Achievement
The 2008-2009 workshop calendar will be available in August.
Below is a description of the four strands of workshops that will continue in the 2008-2009 school year: Best Practices in Mathematics, Leading for Education Equity, Literacy through Social Justice, and Project-Based Learning for Differentiation.
To learn about the presenters giving the workshops, click here to download their biographies (.doc).
Best Practices in Mathematics
During the Best Practices workshops, participants will investigate ways to enhance their use of higher-order thinking, hands-on learning, and other research-based “best” practices. In particular, participants will:
- Learn research-proven methods for promoting problem solving, invention, inquiry, discourse, challenge, and achievement by all students.
- Gain tools that support intensive reflection about their students’ learning as a basis for instructional planning and decision-making.
Sharpen their “critical eye” for teaching practices and materials that foster: student understanding, invention, and sensemaking, a mathematically productive classroom culture, worthwhile mathematics tasks, and deepened mathematical knowledge for teaching.
Leading for Educational Equity
The BayCES Leading for Equity Institute (LFE) is an intensive professional development program that provides intellectual and emotional support to education professionals working on issues of high student achievement and equity.
At the Institute we seek to:
- Build a network of caring, skilled leaders committed to bring about equity in their schools;
- Build the capacity of leaders to lead and facilitate meaningful professional development to increase equity at their school sites and in their communities;
- Develop an on-going support and learning network in which leaders can continue to build their knowledge and skills for addressing equity issues;
- And increase the number of administrators, teacher-leaders and parent-leaders from under-represented groups.
Who should consider attending?
Educators who are: - Willing to address equity issues on a personal as well as an intellectual level;
- Concerned about how race, class, gender and other forms of bias affect teaching, learning and achievement; and
- Committed to taking responsibility for influencing change at your school.
What do participants gain?
To be uncompromising on equity is challenging, whether in the design phase for creating a school or in the reflective work of an existing school community. It requires identifying and incorporating equity-focused activities for teachers, administrators, and parents into the on-going professional development activities of the school.
Participants will leave the Institute with:
- Increased self-awareness and knowledge about the issues of systemic oppression, power, and privilege that impact teaching and learning;
- Practical methods for improving relational trust within the school and community;
And strategies for engaging in deeper dialogue about instructional practices and student achievement.
Literacy through Social Justice
From the books we select, to the history we teach, to the way we "correct" our students’ papers, we not only offer them content, we also promote a particular view of the world. In this workshop, Linda Christensen demonstrate activities that foster critical thinking and democratize academic achievement. The workshop offers a variety of classroom-tested teaching methods that address students at different skill levels. This workshop is for ALL teachers, not just new teachers.
Project-Based Learning for Differentiation
Putting Practice into Action: The Design and Implementation of Project-Based Learning.
The design of this workshop enables participants (teachers, students, administrators, counselors, and business partners are all possible participants) to plan and implement a project using the community as a resource for skills, knowledge, standards development and the authentic problem that invites student learning.
The two days of the Summer Institute will focus on the experience of doing a project: How are learners engaged? What are the ingredients of a good design? What skills, standards and behaviors matter? The two days will culminate with an exhibition of each team’s project design.
Days 1-2:
- Foundation of PBL and design principals
- Experiencing a project as learner—how do we engage the spectrum of learners?
- Exhibiting and assessing results
The initial design workshop will be augmented during the school year with two follow-up workshops that focus on implementation issues: scaffolding, assessment/evaluation, exhibitions, documentation and quality student work.
Day 3:
- Scaffolding: How do you set students up for success? Special emphasis on how you engage, grow and retain the reluctant learner. How you can differentiate for the spectrum of a heterogeneous population of students.
- Mid-course review: Reflections on implementation, problem-solving, operational and scaffolding issues
Day 4:
- Design and assessment/evaluation strategies utilizing feedback spirals, sharing protocols
- Reflection, direction: Analysis of student work, analysis of the project, assessments, evaluations
Teachers who complete the series will have the opportunity to exhibit their project design and student work during a Spring Oregon Small Schools Initiative event.
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