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Using what kids are passionate about to fuel learning, example ESPN basketball and math.

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How do we make schools amazing places for students to learn?

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Contrast between what we believe and what we do.

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**We must try to create opportunities for students to do what they do best every single day, every single class period.
**Connection over content
**Is it ok to not prioritize test scores?
**Helping a student find their passion is just as important as their GPA

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How has this worked for you at your school?

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SEL

Fulltime mental health person for counselling (clinical mental health) how would we fund this? Homeroom time or after school during tutoring

Where is the data from state risk assessment?

County pays part, school pays part, is there a grant available?

District wide SEL, all on the same page. check out 7 mindsets

Rotate through periods, everyone does SEL during that period on a specific day of the week

Common themes and common language

Ross Green – book, Lost at School

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What skill or competency would you want all kids to graduate with/move to the next level, etc?

Ar a recent meeting, superintendents responded:
Responsibility, Respect, Communication Skills, Confidence, Kindness, Self-Efficacy, Civic Mindedness, independence to learn, resiliency, Owenership, Grit, Growth mindset, problem-solving, empathy, etc.

What if we could have them all?
TEACH Social Emotional Learning and they will!

SEL Competencies:
Self-awareness, Self-management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision making!

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7 Mindsets

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SEL is how children and adults learn to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

Check this out: https://casel.org/about-2/

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What grant did you use to get this funded?
Watford City would like to know.

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SEL, What are the challenges of collaboration with all community entities?

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SEL, What are the challenges of collaboration with all community entities?

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Has anyone looked into or used the book, Basic Social Skills for Youth: A Handbook from Boys Town

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-Virtual
-Partnerships with Community

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Valley City...are you there?

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Scanning documents (Rugby) and cataloging to create a digital history.

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Funding
Time for teachers outside of class to get the experience set up
Space....we have NO open rooms or spaces (and no spaces being built)
Untrustworthy kids being placed in rooms by themselves (with no extra paras to supervise)
Parent investment
Not knowing where to start?????

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Who is the audience... the teacher or the textbook? Then it is a "fake" attempt towards authentic work.

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School government based on tribal government. Have a school chairperson and class chairpersons that make up the council. Give the students a seat on the school board.

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How Tech can help with Authentic/Relevance

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How Tech can help with Authentic/Relevance

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Google Expeditions (participating and making)
Virtual Connections

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All students deserve access to authentic/relevant work.

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-Pizza fractions
-Internships
-App development
-Create Businesses
-Jag Java Restaurant management
-Bring in professionals
-Work with and for professionals
-Solve Business problems
-Job shadowing days
-Student planned field trips
-PBL
-Room transformations
-Dino Dig in Montana this summer
-Peer leaders
-Students learning how to be teachers by helping out in elemetnary
-School to work
-Help desk
-More CTE
-College partnerships
-AVID activities
-STEM Days
-You're hired events
-Amazing Shake
-Genius hour
-Hour of code
-TEALS microsoft partnership
-Student created memorials
-Marketing challenges
-Paw shop ran by kids
-Kids directing musicals
-Kids running lights at musicals
-Broadcasing sporting events by kids

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First off, Beulah would like to challenge the results.

Lots of great ideas. We feel that in order for school to be truly relevant
we must get to know our kids. We must spend time learning their interests and their passions. Once we know their passions and interests - we must wrap the curriculum around those. This provides real and relevant  learning that is tailored to the individual gifts, talents, and interests of the students.

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Student based businesses would be an excellent way to give students real experience in business development, financial literacy, and accountability with financial incentive.

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Student based businesses would be an excellent way to give students real experience in business development, financial literacy, and accountability with financial incentive.

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Student Workers - fix desks, clean
Working with local businesses
Paid Internships
Bring in local experts
Interchangeable Credits
Career Academy Extensions
Community Judges of Student-Created Content
Online student presence for created work
Student portfolios - Senior Capstone
VR
On the Job Credit for Classes

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Find a group of kids that the "traditional" mode of school doesn't work... and then modify to make school change more do-able and purposeful for actual learning.

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Not wasting our face to face time with content transmission... but offering learning that will then be applied through deeper, hands-on learning experience during the actual face to face time

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What happens when parents and community members are questioning why their students are online/screen time and the teachers aren't "teaching"?

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Why the stigma?  We need to consider that it is the learning in the modality and how effective/ineffective it may be... not just stigmatizing all of online learning as ineffective.

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How do you begin to transition into these models and at what age do you begin the transition?

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Station Rotation - Elementary

Three components… small groups and lead teacher and online.

Strengths - structure and framework to theoretically target whole class and individualized needs.

Weaknesses - can become a list of activities for kids to rotate to.  Reality is many times a way to keep the kids quiet.  Very little data on the stations.

Like in theory but when you are not doing the collaborative work it isn’t effective.  Activities and what they do and the data they collect.

Station Rotation - Middle

In one classroom with stations

Pretty similar to elementary.  Strength for teachers… have control and direct students.  Parents are familiar. Could be student directed and collaborative but most observed implementations have not leveraged that. Activities or stations often build for the middle of the road.

Lab Rotation

Blocked time of the day for blended learning… most of examples was a program.  Benefits was to staff the blended room with paraprofessionals.  Potentially in larger groups.

Flipped Model

Students access lecture at home or out of class. Different from homework cause online. Lot of examples in Math.

Weakness… if students don’t watch the videos you can’t continue

Flex - combination of some of the other models.  Each district has a little different configuration for implementation.   Possibly a little more student directed. More choice or flexibility for staff.

Individual Rotation…

Large groups staffed with Aides with core delivery online.

Encouraged differentiation.  Flexible paths.

Difficult to start and procedures rely on student self-monitoring.

A la Carte

Have some school building classes and some are online.

Sounds possibly like Edgenuity.  But could also be like BPS moving to online such as English 12

Good prepare for college… online course experience and self-motivation/

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Wonderings
-Student behaviors for individual success?

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How do we keep students engaged?
Who is implementing blending learning? Where is it working well?
What qualities that exist that make it work well?
Why is there a stigma for online learning?

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Station Rotation- small group instruction, online personalized content, collaborative activities
Flex learning-  online learning
A La Carte-  one or more courses entirely online
Individual Rotation-

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How can smaller school districts offer station rotation in the classroom when it takes several staff member to make that work?
-Tech support
-Instructional coach
-Paras
-Special Education

Who is monitoring student behaviors and student progress?

How are we ensuring engagement?

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Who is implementing? What are they implementing? What are they doing well?

How do we keep students engaged? How do we ensure the content engages and is meaningful to students?

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How do we manage rigor and relevance?
From a teacher standpoint, how do we manage the scheduling and being responsible for all kids at all times?

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1. How do you motivate students to work online with some of the options that don't always have them in the classroom?

2. Parent/Community buy in, how do you get support?

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A La Carte and Enriched Virtual options would be an excellent option for consideration when trying to find options to accommodate population growth and high enrollment.

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Like the idea of virtual or online options. We see a need to supervise the online learning with para's. If doing Flip model PD & tech support is a must.

Personalized learning goals could be met with ANY of these models!!! WC with its transient populations could really benefit  from this.

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Some good and bad. Is it advantageous to have online classes or software for students, if can't get a good teacher?

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How do we motivate kids or get self-motivation to grow?

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Some students do not have the interest or the ability to work 1/3- 1/2 a day on a computer. Are students able to follow a more conventional model within this system?

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Very similar to what NC is already doing in our "Jag Academy."

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Individual Rotation - each student has a customized schedule that is fixed.  Large group for individual online instruction. 6 teachers 300+ students. Not all students are required to do the entire content. Instruction is based on student's needs. Half the day that students are on software. This is in a charter school...

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With these different learning models, student drive is a necessity. Gamification is cool, but how do we get student motivated to give the work a try (online or otherwise) if the student doesn't like games or the district can't afford the subscription to all these gamification programs?

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Flex Learning - big group online study. Smaller groups for content groups.

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Station Rotation - providing targeted small group instruction that incorporates teacher lead, independent, collaborative,  and online, personalized content.
Flex Model - significant independent time and face to fact time... combines math and language arts... Incubator period includes face to face time with teacher to dig into student
Social area, collaboration space..
Flipped Classroom - students use class time to ask questions and clarification while spending time at home with classroom instruction.
An advantage of this model is for kids who missed class, or kids who need multiple exposures...

These models offer choice for students and staff.
How are these models appropriate for struggling students?  Does the student have the stamina and approach to learning for success?
If we move to more of an online, E-Learning concept, is it in the best interest for our struggling students? Some of our ELO's won't fit nicely into online opportunities. How do we manage this?
With choice, we see buy in...
Where is the balance?

So many possibilities!

What should we do as a team to build the next steps?

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Discussion about blended learning:
- how does this work with behaviors? Exceptions, not the rule.

- Establishing the idea that not one single strategy is effective - being fluid and meaningful.

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Middle School Rotations - Students are online about 1/2 the time.

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Teachers assess "real time data"?
The model provides contextual school choices for parents and students, online, offline, in instructional center, or at home.
Project-based curriculum is facilitated by instructional staff as needed.
Challenge- are all parents able to supervise students at home?
What is the cost of implementation?

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Enriched Virtual- This is a whole school model that splits student instructional time between online offsite work and brick and mortar school settings. Students can work through an individual educational progression within this model.

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We currently have a couple of teachers that have flipped their classrooms.  The content delivery almost exclusively takes place on the student's time, place, and path.  The skill development and support from the teacher occurs in the classroom during the class time.  The pro of this is certainly more one on one time with the teacher for skill development.  I have  concern about time spent learning content at home.  Our kids are not home enough now days.  What if more than one class in a school did this at the same time?  Do our kids get family time?  I think this is more important than ever right now.

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How do we eliminate the stigma that online learning has?

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This is something already occurring in classrooms at NC, to some extent. A strength is that it doesn't need a specific schedule to function because the learners stay in that classroom and are just working on individualized playlists, in an LMS such as Empower. One weakness is that there is a lot of work on the front end building customized playlist for learners with different gaps in knowledge. I've found it is easiest to have all activities pre-listed on the playlist and then have learners bypass activities if they have already proved proficiency. It can also be an option to have a lot of voice and choice in the playlist to have learners pick what assignments they first believe will fit their learning needs, depending on where they are at and how they learn best.

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Blended Learning-
students divide their time between attending a brick-and-mortar campus and learning remotely using online delivery of content and instruction

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With another bond failing here, this is an option we may have to consider. I was looking at the Rio Rancho school model where students attend the brick and mortar school 3 grade levels at a time during a week. The teachers seem to maintain the same 25 students similar to a traditional class, however the students aren't brick and mortar all the time (if I'm understanding this correctly). Nationwide there is an issue with education infrastructure, this may be the future of how classrooms work if we can't fund brick and mortar locations.

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A la carte model is what already exists at many smaller schools in ND.
Concerns about the lab stations include the testing component, and the reliance on paras/computer labs.

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Increasing student opportunities and learning

J term and fllavors?  Being there...

School District as “employer”  for internships… model for community (tech, graphic design, carpentry, etc.

Community partners and apprenticeships … alt ways of achieving knowledge

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Very much like what is done in the middle school in Harrisburg, SD. Our middle school is looking at setting up a schedule for next year that would follow this model. Strength- learners set their own schedules and sign up for what they need; educators are able to offer what their learners need. Starts to fall apart when learners get too far ahead or too far behind. Saturday school can be a place for those who are falling too far behind. Can offer enrichment or level 4 project or real world experiences for those who are too far head to have offerings that will fit their needs. Weaknesses- starts to fall apart when there are too many options for learners at a small school like ours. It is hard to find how this would work in high school with so many options and only one teacher that has all high school math courses, etc. I'm excited to see this fit into our middle school.

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Time, Place, Path Pace - You can still do these and it can be low level learning

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Discussion regarding possibility of having students report to a room for E learning instead of having a substitute.  Would this foster flipped classrooms?  Would this address the substitute shortage and the reteaching often needed when a teacher returns?

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Discussion regarding possibility of having students report to a room for E learning instead of having a substitute.  Would this foster flipped classrooms?  Would this address the substitute shortage and the reteaching often needed when a teacher returns?

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And introduction to real world situations - we shouldn't wait until high school to introduce the topic.

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Test scores don't tell us the whole picture.

What if we used student portfolios to assess what the student knows or how well they will do in college instead of JUST ACT scores, etc..
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Startup program at high school to get credit for working.

We can't just throw money at schools and assume students are learning.

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Scores may be on the rise, but that doesn't negate the fact that 1 in 5 students and teachers are struggling from mental illness. Suicide rates are on the rise at an alarming rate.  Our students, teachers, and families are reaching out for connection.  Our society needs connection.  Lets find a balance - in which we meet the needs of our students both academically, but also social and emotionally as well.

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Work based experiences are crucial to the development of our students, but also in the realm of growing our communities. Work-Based experiences give students an opportunity to do work in an area that they are passionate about as opposed to taking courses they simply don't need or want. This is the problem with our current graduation requirements. We personalize learning but everybody must fit into the same box for a high school diploma.

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We spent a ton of time visiting about how we can incorporate or implement "eLearning" days into our district.

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We spent a ton of time visiting about how we can incorporate or implement "eLearning" days into our district.

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Conversation around how we could use video to enhance or provide learning opportunities to students not present in the classroom for a variety of reasons.

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Conversation around how we could use video to enhance or provide learning opportunities to students not present in the classroom for a variety of reasons.

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Balance is obviously the goal, but the ranking system is just simply out dated. We continue to be stuck in a model of education that prepares kids for an industrialized era that is fading away. Developing individual potential for a work-force that is specialized is something we should be doing on a daily basis. Jobs are more specialized then they have ever been.

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Feels forced to rank students
Wish the ranking wasn't as important

We need to have the conversation beyond the score?
How many kids are red in MC because of will or ability?
Are we wrecking kids by forcing standards down their throats instead of working to meet them at their intent?  Round kid / square peg

While reading/math are important - so is the desire to learn

More electives = more engagement

Is this contributing to our dropout rate of 80%?  Are we tainting kids in elementary to have them drop out by 16 in high school.

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Don't "Do things better", instead "Do Better Things"

Give up 14 days of instruction for testing

Students may lose electives based on results

Your favorite teachers were probably not high standardized test scores

So many prongs to hindering advancement

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Internships- how can get get more real-world work experiences built into a learner's schedule? We have the portrait of a graduate but are still filling their days with courses rather than experiences.
How can we get more community members involved in class?
CTE is so important for real world experience especially for those headed towards 2-year schools- how can we make stakeholders more aware of this?
How can we get more of our art learners to push out information in our school? We are starting to use our learners more and more, but need to do more.
How can we make math meaningful? (Ex: using statistics to support claims in science rather than just drilling through problems-- can we track learners into courses that reflect the information they actually need?)

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Learners will take shortcuts to get around meaningless work in order to spend more time with what is actually meaningful in their lives

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Use for incremental steps toward more robust PBL and student agency.