Green Run High School Innovation Lab MISSION: TO HELP OUR STUDENTS FIGURE OUT WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IN LIFE SHOULD BE
Who inspired us to “try” to innovate?
And let us not forget our former teachers, who never wrote any books but stayed in the classroom giving all they had with an audience of 5 or 12 or sometimes even 40…
How will we use our time together today? Part 1 (40 minutes): We hope to share our iLab story with you… Vision, Structures, Practices, Successes and Strengths, Failures~ Areas in Need of Improvement, and Our Future Part 2 (10 minutes): BRAIN BREAK: We are big believers in FINNishing Strong (4o minutes on, 10 minutes off) Part 3 (20 minutes): Various Choice Stations~1. Speak with iLab Students 2. Go through a day to day visual account of the iLab through our Twitter feed 3. Analyze our data (discipline, attendance, academic progress)
What is the Green Run High School Innovation Lab (iLab)? • It is an experiment in PUBLIC educational reform and democracy. • We have no filters, no applications, no interviews…we take any student zoned for our high school and we build our curriculum organically each week around student and teacher passions. • Green Run High School and the Innovation Lab classes are populated with students from very diverse backgrounds. The demographics in the GRHS iLab reflect the overall demographics of the school. There is a large contingency of military families as well as a large percentage of African-American students. Of our iLab students, 19 % come from families connected to the U.S. Armed Services. 51% of the iLab students are African-Americans, 16% are Hispanic, 2% are Asian, 4% are Multiple Ethnicities, and 27% are Caucasian.
Core Values and Beliefs of the GRHS iLab (Created by Teachers and Students) • We take students, the things they love, and their natural abilities seriously and aim to build learning around student passions everyday. • We believe in intrinsic motivation and rigorous self-analysis. • We believe learning should be as fun as humanly possible.
Core Values and Beliefs of the GRHS iLab (Created by Teachers and Students) • We believe in creating and maintaining a positive and safe learning environment with uplifting peer and teacher relationships. • We believe failure can be a crucial step on the road to success and we aim to fail forward • We believe social and emotional learning and developing personal ethics are as important as academic training.
What do we REALLY believe in? “If we aren’t having fun, we must be doing something wrong!”
GRHS iLab GRHS iLab Class of 2021
How It All Works in the GRHS iLab • Get students out Social and into the community Emotional Learning • Blend • Bring the student/teacher community to passions with • Develop Non- school through traditional curricula cognitive skills Community in Biology and • Practice and role- Conversations English play in Innovation • Develop real – • Build curricula Health and P.E. world applications around current classes of content events and student • SEL is embedded in knowledge passions in World all iLab classes Geography Multidisciplinary Expeditionary Learning Learning
EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING “MUST WE ALWAYS TEACH OUR CHILDREN WITH BOOKS? LET THEM LOOK AT THE MOUNTAINS AND THE STARS UP ABOVE. LET THEM LOOK AT THE BEAUTY OF THE WATERS AND THE TREES AND FLOWERS ON EARTH. THEY WILL THEN BEGIN TO THINK, AND TO THINK IS THE BEGINNING OF A REAL EDUCATION.” - DAVID POLIS
FIRST DAY of High School for our 9 th graders https://twitter.com/GRHSiLab/status/90519397778322 6369
iLab Learning Expeditions 2017-2018 Hiking The Blue Ridge Parkway Touring The University of Virginia The Adventure Park (on the first day of school!) Dolphin Watching at the Virginia Aquarium First Tee lessons at National Golf Course Identifying trees at Bayville Park Fishing at Stumpy Lake “Thrifting” at the Salvation Army Mentoring at Green Run Elementary School Washington, D.C. Kings Dominion Wright Brothers Memorial, North Carolina
Creating a Strong Sense of Belonging as We Explore the World DOLPHIN RUN AT THE VIRGINIA VIRGINIA BEACH OCEANFRONT AQUARIUM
University of Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway
Community Conversations Honorable Kevin Duffan, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Professor Michael Allen, Old Dominion University Amanda Gregory, Prosecuting Attorney Mark Brown, Author of Zen Pig Dr. Charles Corprew, Consultant/Business Owner Ron Villanueva, Delegate in the General Assembly Chris and Aaron Johnson, Business Owners Jill Heinerth, Arctic Explorer Micki Sievers, World Traveler Jay Gates, Comedian and Corporate Film Director Jeff Jones , ODU Men’s Head Basketball Coach
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING/PERSONALIZED LEARNING “THE PERSONALIZATION OF LEARNING IS NOT JUST PRETENDING KIDS HAVE CHOICES IN WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO LEARN. RATHER, IT IS BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH TEACHERS HAVE THE TIME AND SKILL TO KNOW THEIR STUDENTS AND CAN ADJUST THE PACE, THE MATERIALS, AND THE SURROUNDINGS SO THEY CAN MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL LEARNERS.” - GEORGE WOOD
Social and Emotional Learning Lessons in Life, Lessons from the Lives of Others, and Non- Cognitive Skills • Calculated Risk Taking : Get Out of Your Comfort Zone! • Goal Setting : Be Smart, Be Courageous (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely) • Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy : Be Internet Awesome (Google) and Share with Care! • Get Unstuck : Your Past and Your Family’s Past Don’t Have to be Your Future • Empathy : Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes • Curiosity : There’s No Place Like Home, But Sometimes You “ Gotta ” Roam!
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND BLENDED LEARNING “TECHNOLOGIES, COMBINED WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS OF TEACHERS, PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVOLUTIONIZE EDUCATION.” - SIR KEN ROBINSON
“A” Day in the GRHS iLab 1A 7:20 a.m.-8:50 a.m. MATH 2A 8:55 a.m-10:25 a.m. ENGLISH 3A 10:25 a.m.-12:35 p.m. BIOLOGY 4A 12:40 p.m.-2:10 p.m. WORLD GEOGRAPHY With this flexible schedule GRHS iLab Class of 2021 can mentor Green Run Elementary School Colts and go out into the Community for job shadowing opportunities and other learning expeditions
“B” Day in the GRHS iLab 1A 7:20 a.m.-8:50 a.m. ELECTIVE 2A 8:55 a.m-10:25 a.m. ACADEMIC STUDY BLOCK/ELECTIVE 3B 10:25 a.m.-12:35 p.m. INNOVATION/ ENTREPRENEURSHIP 4B 12:40 p.m.-2:10 p.m. HEALTH AND P.E. Green Run iLab students testing out Virtual Reality
GRHS iLab 2018-2019 ILAB CLASS OF 2022 (YEAR 1) ILAB CLASS OF 2021 (YEAR 2) “A” Day “A” Day Math (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2) Math (Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2) Honors English 9, Biology(Environmental English 10, Oceanography, and Virginia Science), and World Geography (3 blocks of and U.S. Government (3 blocks of blended learning) blended learning) “B” Day “B” Day Electives Electives Health and P.E. and Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2 blocks of blended Health and P.E., Economics and Finance learning) (2 blocks of blended learning)
GRHS iLab 2019-2020, 2020-2021 ILAB CLASS OF 2021 (YEAR 3) ILAB CLASS OF 2021 (YEAR 4) “A” Day “A” Day Math (Geometry, Algebra 2, Math Math (Algebra 2, Math Analysis, AP Analysis) Calculus) Honors English 11 and Virginia and U.S. Leadership Course (1 block) and other History (2 blocks of blended learning) required courses for graduation “B” Day “B” Day Electives Electives Opportunities to explore internships, Opportunities to explore internships, job shadowing, Dual Enrollment courses job shadowing, Dual Enrollment at TCC, ATC, and Tech Center courses at TCC, ATC, and Tech Center
TOP 10 SUCCESSES (Ws) and STRENGTHS of the iLab Learning Experiences
1. Cohort of students, teachers, and families from 9 th grade-12 th grade matriculating together through high school
2. Social and Emotional Gains
3. Family Atmosphere
4. Learning Expeditions
Learning Expeditions
5. Community Conversations
6. Passion Projects
7. Brain Breaks
8. Personalized Learning
9. Teacher Freedom and Purpose!
10. Grades, Attendance, and Discipline
TOP 5 FAILURES (Ls) and SETBACKS of the iLab Learning Experiences
1. Problem Based Learning-Too much freedom too quickly, not a lot of intrinsic motivation…yet.
2. Collaborative Student Teams~BIG L
3. Curation of Student Work~Google Classroom, Schoology, Schoolnet , Binders…oh my! Too much work in ISOLATION.
4. Communication with Parents-Email? Not eally. Phone? Maybe. Text? Yep.
5. Fool on a Stool vs. Sage on the Stage vs. Guide on the Side~The Struggle is Still REAL.
BRAIN BREAK TIME 10 MINUTES to… THROW THE BALL TALK TO COLLEAGUES CHECK YOUR PHONE BREATHE DO WHAT YOU WANT CRY, STRETCH, WALK GO TO YOUR HAPPY PLACE
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