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Happy Learning

• Take a few moments to think of two of your most memorable learning experiences from school
• Write them down on an index card
• Discuss with a partner & come up with key characteristics that define those experiences
• Share out
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Agenda

• Purpose
• Programatic Opportunities
• Pedagocical Opportunities
• Process

Purpose

• Develop and implement HHRS specific programatic and pedagogical approaches to enhance HHRS appeal to students and families
• Showcase HHRS as an innovative and engaging learning community
• Create frameworks and toolsets to successfully implement programs and approaches

Programmatic Focus

• Purpose
• Desired outcomes
• Alligned to HHRS Strategic Plan, Mission, and Vision
• Provide opportunities and experiences to create unique and interesting students

Programmatic Enhancements

• "Maximize student access to diverse, well-rounded educational experiences.

Interdisciplinary Courses - The Why

• Increase student choice
• Provide different types of inquiry and reflections-based learning opportunities
• Learning experiences connected to the world outside of school

Interdisciplinary Courses - The What

• Go slow to go fast
• Start in 7th grade
• Move to 8th grade the following year
• Add grade levels each year
• Course combinations/creation based on best fit for our school and students

Interdisciplinary Courses - The How

Pedagogical Focus

• Incorporate elements of design thinking and PBL across the curriculum
• Increase student agency
• Provide choice
• Create connections to the world outside of the classroom
• Learning outside of the classroom
• Experienced-based

Design Thinking & PBL

• Process not a product
• Approaches to enhance current curricular objectives and unitsCan help to provide compelling and authentic engagements for students
• Can help to provide compelling and authentic engagements for students
• Interdisciplinary
• Student Centered

Design Thinking & PBL

• Interdisciplinary
• Student-centered
• Collaborative
• Voice and Choice
• Self-management

Desired Outcomes of DT & PBL

• Learning to be self-reliant through planning and organization
• Social learning through collaboration skills
• Differentiation to provide intrinsic motivation

Increase Student Agency

• Provide students with control over how and what they learn
• Increase engagement
• Increase academic achievement

Community Learning

Four Questions - PLC

• Move from teacher-centered questions to student-centered questions
• What do I want to know?
• How will I know if I learned?
• What do I do if I don't learn?
• What do I do if I

Budget

Scheduling Modifications

• Combine two periods into a single period
• Determine best fit for which periods to combine to maximize enrollment

Metrics of Success - Students

• Pre and post-implementation surveys
• Students understanding of about how to go about learning something new
• Level of learning enjoyment

Implementation Timeline - Sept.

• September - Define the challenge with stakeholders.
• Create Problem Identification & Evidence Gathering.
• Invite stakeholders to join the design team

Implementation Timeline - Oct.

• October - Synthesis & Analysis of gathered evidence by the design team
• Sharing of evidence with stakeholders
• Define the challenge

Implementation Timeline - Nov.

• Design Team work
• Clarification of the work that needs to be completed
• Timeline for implementation

Implementation Timeline - Dec.

• Presentation of the solution to all stakeholders

Implementation Timeline Jan. - Feb.

• Team works towards completing first iteration of the sollution
• Stakeholder updates

Implementation Timeline - March

• Solution rollout to teachers, then parents/community members, then students

Metrics of Success - Teachers

Metrics of Success - Community

Sharing Our Successes

• Community newsletters
• Atlantic Highlands Herald
• Inviting K-6 students to celebrate our learning
• Information nights
• Parent coffees

The Process

• Define the problem
• Gathering the evidence
• Identify challenges and opportunities

The Process - Share Findings

• Share data and evidence with all stakeholders
• Engage stakeholders in small-group dialogue around the problem and data collected
• "How might we..."
• Create design teams

Implementation Timeline - Ongoing

• After the solution goes live, regular and continual evidence and data collection takes place.
• Evidence and data collection aligned to Success Matrix