MAY 4, 2012

CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP AT AES: A SHARED EXPERIENCE

GROUNDING ACTIVITY

• Look at your job descriptions (TAB: AES Job Descriptions for Leads) – focus on the components related to curriculum

• Examine the Teacher Leadership Standards (TAB: Lead Teacher Standards)

In view of these two documents, what are your hopes for today?

NORM SETTING FOR THE DAY

WALK THE TALK

Three Organizers for Designing Effective Meetings:1. Have clear outcomes2. Have a task-analysis plan to achieve the

outcomes3. Have a repertoire of agenda formats from

which to work

OUR OUTCOMES FOR TODAY: FRONT POCKET OF YOUR BINDER

THE SEVEN NORMS OF COLLABORATION

• Pausing• Paraphrasing• Posing Questions• Putting Ideas on the table• Providing Data• Paying Attention to Self and Others• Presuming Positive Intentions

SELF-ASSESS AND CONSIDER

Turn to the TAB: Norms for Collaboration• Rate yourself and your team vis a vis the 7 Norms

for Collaboration

CONSIDER

Reflection Sheet under the Norms TAB• What behaviors do you observe working in your

various teams that enhance communication?• What behaviors do you observe working in your

teams that block communication?• What can you do to encourage behaviors that

enhance communication?

THINK ABOUT…AND SHARE…

In trios:• An experience you were part of or observed

when 7 Norms of Collaboration were employed effectively.• An experience you were part of or observed when

the 7 Norms of Collaboration were not effectively utilized.

BREAK

BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE TEAM

Turn to the TAB: Effective Teams• Individually, take the questionnaires

related to effective teams

GROUP ACTIVITY

• As a group, define teamwork in one sentence.• Post your definition on the wall• Gallery walk

PUTTING YOUR TEAMING SKILLS TO THE TEST: THE ATLAS SCAVENGER HUNT

WHERE ARE YOU IN CURRICULUM REVIEW

PULL UP A UNIT FROM THE PREVIOUS GRADE

FIND A UNIT FROM 2009-10

FIND A TRAINING VIDEO

IN DEVELOP, PULL TECH STANDARDS

IN HOW MANY UNITS IS THE SUBJECTIVE TENSE TAUGHT SCHOOL-WIDE?

FIND THE UBD DEFINITIONS PAGE

IN COMMUNITIES, LOCATE A FULLY DEVELOPED UNIT

IN DEVELOP OR BROWSE, SHOW POP UP WINDOW WITH UBD DEFINITION

• In what ways was your team effective?

• In what ways could you have worked more effectively?

GROUP DEBRIEF

UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN UNITS: GETTING BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH AES’S DESIGN CRITERIA

Open to the TAB: WOW and Wonders Protocol• Use the reflection sheets provided to evaluate the

unit

WOW AND WONDERS:PREPARING FOR PROTOCOLS THROUGH

EFFECTIVE QUESTIONING

Still in the TAB: WOW and Wonders ProtocolFind the reading on Focusing Questions

Coded Reading• As you read • ! – this is important to remember• T – I would like to talk about this with

someone for clarification• Debrief with a partner

WOW AND WONDERS PROTOCOL

In the same TAB, find the protocol – last page in this section• Assign roles – one of you must be the ‘presenter’

who wrote this unit• Put this unit through the protocol in trios

MS Conference

Room

LUNCH

FOCUSING FOUR PROTOCOL

•Why are UbD units important for those teaching the course, those who will teach the course and for our students?•Why does AES embrace UbD?•Why should we invest time, energy and resources into this type of training?

THE FOCUSING FOUR

A 4-step consensus building activity:• Brainstorm• Clarify and Combine• Advocate• Canvass

STEP 1: BRAINSTORM

Solicit from the group their ideas in relation to the prompt. There is no right or wrong answer.

• Purpose: quickly generate a lot of ideas• Ground rules: no questions or judgment,

just ideas

STEP 2: CLARIFICATION

• Purpose: an opportunity to understand something or learn more about what the author meant• Ground rules: State the item you want to

know more about. The facilitator will then ask the author to explain. The author explains. There is no back and forth dialog. You can also at this time suggest combining ideas from the brainstorm

STEP 3: ADVOCACY

Solicit input from various people.• Purpose: influence others as you speak in favor of a certain item•Ground rules: Be brief, positive statements only, discuss only one item at a time

STEP 4: CANVASSING

Building consensus.• Purpose: Identify a number of items that

important• Ground Rules: Vote by dots. Move quickly

and mark your choices (the number of choices should be the number of outcomes you wish for the consensus activity)

FACILITATION FOR COLLABORATIVE UNIT DEVELOPMENT AND REVISION

• Agenda• Clear process• Roles

Provide Clarity of Outcomes

POSSIBLE ENTRY POINTS FOR UNIT DEVELOPMENT

• Standards and benchmarks• Scope and sequence of skills or content• Big ideas/concepts• Sequencing – what is the next unit• Scope and sequence of benchmarks to assess• Use your standards to create EU’s and EQ’s• Other program documents (eg: CC clarification

documents – DOK, Unit titles, critical areas)

WHAT IS MOST USEFUL TO YOU?

• Examine the documents and consider the team you work with; which documents would be most useful to your unit development process?

• On a note card, please put your name and department/subject and indicate which documents you feel would be most beneficial to your curriculum work with your team.

IDENTIFYING AREAS FOR REVISION

• Assessment Mix • Formative/summative• Write/do/say• Blooms taxonomy

• Integration of technology• Coherence?• Use a protocol

• Student performance data

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR UNITS

• Start and end with your unit• Before teaching sit down as a team to look at the

unit• Confirm agreements regarding standards,

Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, and assessments• After teaching, reflect and revise through the use

of a protocol• Record your reflections in Atlas• Update Atlas with unit changes for next year

Pack and Stack

BREAK

BUILDING A UNIT FOR YOUR TEAM

• Using the teacher leadership standards which have been pre-loaded into your Atlas planner, develop your unit entitled: Leading my Team in 2012-13• Objective of your unit: Build collaboration and

team-work skills in order to guide the learning of your team in 12-13• Use your learning from the day to organize how

you will proceed as a team• Debrief the highlights of your unit

NEXT STEPS

• Lead Teacher Session: First day back for faculty• Focus: Building Leadership

Capacity with a focus on Common Assessments

• Bambi Betts Lead Teacher Training: week of Oct. 22-26, including Dussehra

WRAP UP AND REFLECTION

• Please fill out the reflection form which will help us inform next steps

HAPPY HOUR: CHEZ BOB