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Now with the increase in technology we can highlight student work by posting on the school website, twitter, etc. We can also highlight student work during parent/teacher conferences and other events in which the parents come to the school.

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Setting up a committee of teachers interested in changing their teaching, using flex time to plan collaboratively, PD sessions during superintendent conference days. We need more time in order to make this work.

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After reading this book, I think I have learned how important student self-reflection is, and how I will try to implement some of the author's questioning techniques as well as some of their strategies such as the Application-Process-Future model. I also think it is important to have students make connections to their learning and allow them to guide the topic to what is interesting to them, as in the example of the Middle School teacher with the Robot wedding. I am going to try and find some lessons that students are curious, confused, or connected to and try to have them guide the direction of the lesson. The other aspect I need to utilize is making connections to students' background year-round, not just icebreakers at the beginning of the year.

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I think using flex time to collaborate and find spots within our curriculum to implement designed learning would be a great start. Start small, and grow this idea from the ground up.

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I think social media will soon be a bigger avenue to showcase more student work. I also think it is important to showcase them in the classroom or in hallways to allow more of the student-body, other subject teachers and administrators celebrate student work. Lastly, I think it is important to showcase student work for parents and the community from displaying on back-to-school, to displays at athletic events.

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Technology is obviously going to play a large role in this. Utilizing twitter and school websites are amazing ways to allow the school community and the outside community to see what students are accomplishing in the classroom. We also had a monthly newsletter that went home to the parents that highlighted what the students were working on and what they accomplished in each grade and subject.

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This book has allowed me to self-reflect on my current teaching style and how I can better incorporate designed learning elements into my classroom to provide by students with a more rich learning experience. I want to allow my students to make better connections to the curriculum by allowing them to explore topics that interest them or that they have a connection or emotional response too. Hopefully this will self-motivate them into problem solving designed solutions and allowing myself to act as more of a guild through their educational process. Which I believe will yield better critical thinking skills for my students.

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I learned that one of the biggest part of PBL is constant questions before after and along the way at each stage of the process. Also that the teacher is not the only one asking the questions and assessing students, but the students themselves are.

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Reaching out to specific department or teachers and utilizing prep time to create a grade or subject project to complete with students. Supports that we would need be, would be planning time together and a plan to put this in action.

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I think planning is essential and having the adequate amount of time to do it.  I also think starting small, trying to revamp your entire curriculum would be nearly impossible but find one topic that you believe this could work with and build off of that.

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I think technology would be essential in connecting the community.  In the arts you could work directly in the community on a beautification project.  Or if you found a need, for example, the local SPCA creating an art auction that could fund supplies needed in the shelter.  You could create the community involvement with a local homeless shelter.  There are a lot of opportunities for involvement.

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If students have produced models, I think the school library is a central space to display work.  Other formats include a Google Site with links to their blogs.  A STEAM Fair model is another great way to showcase student work and bring in the community.

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I have always struggled with the delicate balance of covering curriculum while preparing our students for real life applications. This book has helped me realize as educators it is possible through careful planning and orchestrating to accomplish both simultaneously . And in fact, by utilizing Portnoy's approach students will engage in more meaningful and far reaching lessons.

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I used to know how to engage students with fun, engaging lessons....but now I know to give them a voice to share ideas in how they can use their learned knowledge and skills in authentic, meaningful applications.

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We usually display any projects that the students constructed around our classroom and invite other classes to come in and do a gallery walk. Then we have the opportunity to the same in their class. We also show cased their work in the google classroom or on a class google site.

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I am very grateful to work with a team of teachers who constantly share. Any time we make something or learn something new we immediately share it with each other. We share resources which allows to tweak lessons and put our own spin on it.

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As I have been reading this book, I have been reflecting over the 20 years of my career.  At times I have tried many similar strategies, with success, but then they got lost in the next new approach. This reminds me to iterate and reflect continually on what is in my toolbox. I really love all of the sentence starters for student (and teacher) reflection and self assessment.

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I am not sure yet, but ask me again next year :-)

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I think this could be done in a few different ways. First of all I think before you even branch out as far as a wider community the school community is important. I think student work and learnings should be shared with other grades in their school community. Then there is the layer of technology that can help students share on a wider community scale.

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I work on a team that collaborates continually.  I can't wait to bring back these ideas and share them. I I would have loved a reproducible sheet for each of the self and peer reflection sentence starters (for each of the five stages.

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In the High School we have flex time that we can use to support each other moving forward. Sharing on twitter is also a great resource and can promote some great communication among professionals that may not know each other well.

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I think offering options for groups of teachers interested in other things to sit down would be a great option. We could have interdisciplinary teams with people from different grade levels subjects and schools come together to create unity in rethinking curriculum with design thinking. Supports needed would be time and potentially some funding for materials.

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I think the book has really helped me remember the importance of communication among students and student/teacher. Building relationships and self reflection will benefit my students in the future.

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I can connect with different colleagues for different units of study. For example - I might try to connect with a science teacher when we are studying industrialization and urbanization and do a modern study of pollution or environmental impact of industry.  Another might be connecting with an ELA teacher for something more in tune with the affective domain as we study the effects and varying perspectives from the Great Depression or Vietnam War. Reviewing Constitution basics, my students could teach and reinforce what the lower elementary grades are learning about the three branches.  When we are learning about the modern day issues, we could reach up to the seniors to do some peer assessment of my juniors design solutions.

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I think I have grown in the sense of recognizing the importance of terminology used with children and the power of the way we speak to them and encourage them to communicate with us and one another. I also really took into account the concepts relating what they are learning to the world around them.

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Displaying work is something I do with many things my students work on. I have them share with their peers, not through presentation because that can be intimidating, but through gallery walks where they go around the room to observe their classmates work.

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Department meetings and flex time are ways to share and get support from colleagues. Working with similar content or sharing students on a team gives good background knowledge to coming up with ways to rethink our solutions for issues.