Weeks+6-10


 * Week 6 (Oct. 15) Online  ||   || **How do we achieve CCSS expectations while providing the right learning environment to promote 21st century skills? **(post a response to this before week 11 - Nov 19)

**Everyone views/explores** [|Aljezeera compares 2 US schools] [|Johnathan Kozal part 1] [|Kozol part 2] [|Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Curriculum21] **Discuss:**
 * More Calls for Reform **
 * Who wants what and why?
 * How does this match with the goals and purposes of education and other calls for reform?
 * Do you agree?
 * How does your classroom, office, organization stack up?
 *  Write reflection paper 2 -- Due by Sunday Oct 23, midnight, email t o andrthir@hssd.k12.wi.us

Introduce: Standards

 * 1) [|Common Core State Standards Initiativ]e
 * 2) [|Why Common Standards Won't Work]
 * 3) HSSD documents ||
 * Week 7 (Oct 22) Online  ||   || ===**Standards **===

**Read articles (jigsaw) **
**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Post summaries / reactions and comments (jigsaw) **
 * 1) [|What is curriculum, anyway?]
 * 2) [|American Educator, Spring 2008]-- read especially Common Ground: Clear, Specific Content Hold Teaching, Texts, and Tests Together (all available in pdf format)
 * 3) [|The Accountability Illusion]
 * 4) [[file:hirsch.pdf]] by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
 * 5) //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Catching up or leading the way: American education in the age of globalization //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> by Zhao (you bought the book!) and [|video]
 * 6) How to Mold Public Opinion Against Public Schools -- see for international comparisons **<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|http://tinyurl.com/3dss2l] **
 * 7) [|http://www.ascdpolicypriorities.org/ascdpolicypriorities/0711?pg=1#pg1__]
 * 8) Understanding Common Core State Standards -- read available chapters []

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">**Additional Resources** > [|http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/107014/chapters/A_New_Way_of_Thinking_About_Classroom_Management.aspx] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Discuss - one post per student (general, or choose a question for focus) + one comment on another's post:**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Equalizing Opportunity: Dramatic Differences in Children's Home Life and Health Mean that Schools Can't Do It Alone] (social class differences between young children impact their learning and health) ([|pdf of article])
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|The Myth of the "Culture of Poverty"] by Paul Gorski (//Educational Leadership//, April 2008)
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Cultural Styles including Individualism vs Collectivism **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">( //Managing Diverse Classrooms//, ASCD) --
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Retention, From Beginning to End] (//Inside Higher Ed//) **
 * 2) [|Wisconsin Technical College System Instruction page with link to WIDS] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Week 8 (Oct. 29) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Online  ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Standards **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Where do you stand on standards? (link to readings)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How do your standards match the calls for reform?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How do they match what you actually teach or programs/services your area/office offers?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How do they match any manditory assessments/evaluations/reporting?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How much do standards guide your actions? (or those in your field)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are your standards easy to read and interpret?

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Give your fingers a rest, read independently, tease out your organization's approval process** >> [|http://www.cesa7.org/rcc/Eclipse/] Read independently, work on identifying your leading change project**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Curriculum Approval Process **
 * 1) //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Developing a quality curriculum //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">by Glatthorn (you bought the book) chapters 1, 2
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Find out how curriculum or programs gets approved in your organization (what's the process, timeline, and forms used -- obtain copies of forms)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[[file:///C:/Documents and Settings/andrthir/My Documents/My Dropbox/CurrDevProcess.ppt|Glatthorn's Curriculum Development Process PowerPoint and]] various people's roles//
 * 4) //<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Glatthorn's [[file: ///C:/Documents and Settings/andrthir/My Documents/My Dropbox/CurrGuideContent.doc|curriculum guide content (doc)]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Week 9 (Nov. 5) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Online  ||   || Discuss:
 * Compare/contrast Glatthorn's recommended approval process to that used in your organization
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Curriculum Mapping Systems - explore at least one
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|WIDS]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wisconsin Based (Appleton) Curriculum Mapping System: (Menasha helped design). Build Your Own Curriculum[] or BYOC's homepage[] (Poynette)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eclipse Curriculum Manager (CESA 7)
 * **[]** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Week 10 (Nov. 12) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Online  ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Leading Change
 * 1) //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Leading change in your school: How to conquer myths, build commitment, and get results //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> by Reeves (the third book you purchased)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Consider how Reeve's ideas match with what you have experienced.
 * 3) <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Review a variety of leadership theories [|Leadership PPT](or [|pdf]) and Leadership II pptx (or [|pdf])
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">sketch out your improvement proposal (this will take the place of the third reflection paper) -- Presentation Due Dec 3, email to andrthir@hssd.k12.wi.us if you would like a reaction/discussion at this point, start a discussion, or send me something to react to!

STUDENT-GENERATED ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS - potential improvement proposal topics...
 * How are we going to improve Howard-Suamico School District? Who will lead and will there be followers willing to go along? What will occur if no change is made?
 * What is my role as an informal leader for supporting and creating change? What do we believe as change that needs to happen?
 * What steps need to be taken to change the mentality of the community towards education?
 * Are the incorporation of 21st century skills ENOUGH reform for HSSD? What else needs to be done?
 * How can I improve the Language Arts department without stepping on toes?
 * Why do people in the educational field forget about what are best practices and instead become defensive over old practices?
 * How do we maintain and assess a shared vision?
 * How should a department or school determine how to integrate a curriculum that best prepares students for success after education? ||