Goal 4 Innovative, Creative, Critical Thinkers Part 1
“I think everybody’s an inventor. Everybody's creative. Everybody has ideas.” -Lonnie Johnson
Goal 4: Innovative, Creative, Critical Thinkers GOAL: Each student will be involved in relevant and engaging learning that fosters creativity and imagination, and will gain the confidence and competence to address personal, community, and global issues in collaborative and resourceful ways. EQUITY MEANS: Each student engages in culturally relevant and cognitively challenging real-world learning, while applying knowledge and skills in a variety of ways.
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Goal 4: Measures Increase percentage of students who can justify a position with supporting • evidence Increased percentage of students who apply learning to solve real-world • challenges in imaginative ways Increased percentage of students who demonstrate a mastery of relevant • skills in multiple ways Increased percentage of students who successfully navigate critical • transitions in their education experiences Increased percentage of students who use appropriate technology/digital • tools to facilitate classroom instruction , projects, collaborative learning, and informed decision making
“You encourage kids to experiment, to innovate, not giving them all the answers but giving them the tools they need to find out what the answers might be or to explore new avenues.” -Sir Ken Robinson
Elementary Each student will be involved in relevant and engaging learning that fosters creativity and imagination, and will gain the confidence and competence to address personal, community, and global issues in collaborative and resourceful ways.
Elementary: Northshore Education Math Olympiad An opportunity for students to • gather and use mathematical skills to respond to authentic engaging and complex questions, problems and challenges Culminates in Math Olympiad • Competition 567 Participants "One of the best parts of Math • Olympiad, is taking away all kinds of 55 Volunteers • cool math skills. I learned ratios, percentages, algebra, circumferences, Support from the Northshore • pi, and so much more!” Schools Foundation – Maywood Hills Elementary Student
Elementary: Science A program designed to guide young learners to observe and understand how the world works around them through: Explaining Phenomena • Designing Solutions • Three-Dimensional Learning •
Elementary: Art Docent Program The Art Docent Program engages volunteers in leading discussions and activities monthly in classrooms across the District. Refresh goals: Creating new and updating • existing frameworks Providing access to digital • artwork prints and artist photos Expanding and diversifying the • selection of artists and their works Expand training opportunities •
Kenmore Elementary “Students need to be provided with rich and effective learning opportunities.” - Melissa Riley, Principal
Elementary: Goal 4 at Kenmore Elementary • Increase engagement through rich and rigorous learning for all students. • Empower choice and diverse learning styles. • Integration across curriculum, standards and practices. • Increase collaboration within and across grade levels. • Deepen metacognition and critical thinking skills. • Increase written and oral justification across content. • Embed language acquisition strategies.
Elementary: Goal 4 at Kenmore Elementary At Kenmore Elementary, Critical Thinking, Creativity and Innovation means: Reading and writing about science • Cross-curricular integration, including social-emotional learning and social • comprehension Use of performance tasks and open-tasks in math • STEM lessons, projects, activities, and cooperative learning challenges • Close reading and written/oral reading responses • Accountable and intentional talk and oral language practice • Language strategies: sentence stems, partnering, talk prompts, and visuals, • pictorials Connections between art/projects and content area standards • Learning experiences connected to curriculum • Student engagement in self-reflection, assessment and goal setting •
Middle School Each student will be involved in relevant and engaging learning that fosters creativity and imagination, and will gain the confidence and competence to address personal, community, and global issues in collaborative and resourceful ways.
Middle School: National History Day A collaboration between schools, families and community based programs to expand student opportunities to conduct primary and secondary research and think critically and creatively about historical events. 320 students participated • 216 entries • Over 100 community volunteers • 41 individuals or groups • qualified for state “Triumph and Tragedy”
Middle School: Science Hands-on activities are the launching pad for data collection, notebook, problem solving, nonfiction reading and real world applications through: Three-dimensional learning • Science concepts applied to • engineering design Real-world phenomena • Literacy and mathematics • connections
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning The advent of a rigorous framework for actively engaging each student in relevant and cognitively challenging activities , so they can make meaning of and apply their learning to new situations.
Problem-Based Learning in Grade 6 Challenge Classes “Utilizes teaching strategies that enable students to acquire knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to authentic, engaging, and complex questions, problems and challenges.” - NSD Strategic Plan
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning Hallmarks of Problem-Based Learning Key knowledge, Challenging Sustained understanding, problem or Authenticity inquiry and success skills question Student voice Critique and Reflection Public product and choice revision
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning Northshore Middle School Kenmore Middle School Question: Question: • • How might your community How does music influence be impacted from the overall culture? health of its members? Interdisciplinary project, ELA, • 6-weeks, interdisciplinary social studies, and science • project Social studies, ELA, science • and library
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning Results of Problem-Based Learning Experience Teachers notice benefits of PBL in classes. The following observations and feedback reflect early results of PBL experiences: Students Teachers Excited and focused Interdisciplinary planning Shared responsibility Instruction across the disciplines Meaningful repetition on a common Choice and motivation concept/topic Connections across content Shared resources, goals, outcomes Problem solving approach Collaborative planning Peer-oriented; teamwork
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning Professional Learning for PBL: Teachers… Participated in school-based PD through professional reading, study • and planning for PBL. Set forth strategies for creating a classroom climate for PBL work, • created a timeline of student tasks, prepared assessment tools, gathered resources, and planned within and across content. Resources: Supporting PBL Toolkit by Hanover Research Buck Institute on PBL Problem-Based Learning text
Middle School: Problem-Based Learning NSD Teacher Comments: “Students make connections across the content areas--even better than I do.” “The students were so excited. They valued the choice and real-world experience. It made learning meaningful for them.” “I appreciate how students see that a science topic is also an ELA and social studies topic.” “Problem-based learning sets our teaching plan in a clear way.”
Goal 4 Innovative, Creative, Critical Thinkers Part 2
High School Each student will be involved in relevant and engaging learning that fosters creativity and imagination, and will gain the confidence and competence to address personal, community, and global issues in collaborative and resourceful ways.
High School: IB and AP International Advanced Placement Baccalaureate (IB) (AP) “Focus on teaching “ Helps you transform the students to think critically subjects you’re and independently, and enthusiastic about into a how to inquire with care fulfilling future .” and logic .” – CollegeBoard – International Baccalaureate
High School: AP Enrollment % of Students Enrolled in AP 30 24 25 23 23 22 21 20 16 16 15 15 14 15 10 5 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Northshore State
High School: AP Access Number of AP Courses Filled % of Students Enrolled by Grade Level (2018) 25 40% 24 24 35% 35% 23 23 30% 25% 25% 22 22 22 20% 18% 21 15% 12% 20 10% 19 19 5% 18 0% 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade
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