MBLC School Spotlight Slides - COHORT ONE
Spotlight: Avanti High School, Cohort 1
FALL 2024
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We have started writing one point rubrics that align with out habits of the mind (shared outcomes)
Started developing a protocol to have students reflect on their progress with these across classes
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
How do you incorporate these into content areas?
How do you make these feel genuine and not a box to check or feel forced
Contact Name & Email: Karter Rosner
krosner@osd.wednet.edu
Our core strategies this year:
Working as a staff decide on the habits (outcomes)
Drafting definitions for these
Drafting ideas of what these could look like in class
Spotlight: Avanti High School, Cohort 1
Spring 2025
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
New Student Led Conference ‘script’ that his more holistic than just looking at grades
Shifting focus from developing rubrics to continuous reflection using the rubrics (as well as reflecting on the utility of the rubric)
Revising advisory program for the coming year to meet weekly and allow time to compile artifacts for student led conferences
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What do you want to learn from other schools?
Syllabi and calendars that might inform further on finding the balance of creativity/ thematic learning and depth of learning the content.
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Highline Choice Academy
Cohort One, Fall 2024
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: Avanti High School, Cohort 1
Spring 2025
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Edgemont Junior HS
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
Students willingness and growth in collaboration skills.
Project Based Learning school-wide.
Shared belief on how students learn and develop skills.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district: In collaboration with staff, families, students, and community members, our school will be working to develop a Portrait of an Eagle that names schoolwide learning outcomes for learners in their time in our school.
What we want to learn from other schools:
How are you making MBL work within a traditional grading system?
What advice would you give to another school regarding the process of creating your portrait of a graduate?
Contact Name & Email: Kris Susee suseekj@puyallupsd.org
Our core strategies this year:
Using our resources, like our MBLC coach, to assist in our work.
Dedicating our job-alike mentor time to PBL.
Utilizing our in-building mentor teacher.
Spotlight: Edgemont, Cohort 1
Spring 2025
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Elma Public Schools, Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
Identified priority standards in content areas.
Proficiency scales being developed.
Created Badge Books K-3
MS/HS: Equity Academy, goal: to increase student voice & sense of belonging
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district: Our learning outcomes are the basis for all teaching, learning, coaching, and assessment.
What we want to learn from other schools:
Mindset shift to a competency based system.
Nuts and bolts of a MBL grading system.
Contact Name & Email: Mark Keating
mkeating@eagles.edu
Our core strategies this year:
Increased student agency, voice, and sense of belonging.
4th- HS: Using Empower as a tool to show student growth and understanding.
Using Badge Books for K-3 grades for student use of tracking progress toward standards.
Spotlight: Elma Public Schools, Cohort 1
Spring 2025
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Enumclaw High School
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We have two programs that are currently running at our school. One is a class (Senior Capstone) and the other is an alternative crediting program for students who are completing projects outside of school time.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:As a school community, we engage in ongoing efforts to build our sociocultural awareness and acknowledge that our worldviews are not universal but are influenced by life experiences, as mediated by a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, gender, and social class
What we want to learn from other schools:
What are the ways that you are expanding the program in a traditional school setting
Contact Name & Email: Gunner Argo gunner_argo@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Our core strategies this year:
This year we are establishing a foothold for mastery based learning and project based learning opportunities for students. We just want to get something off the ground.
Spotlight: Enumclaw HS, Cohort 1
Spring 2025
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:As a school community, we engage in ongoing efforts to build our sociocultural awareness and acknowledge that our worldviews are not universal but are influenced by life experiences, as mediated by a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, gender, and social class
Spotlight: GATES High School,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: GATES High School,
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025,
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Shared competency rubrics revision based on student feedback
Piloting shared rubrics
MBL co-taught/co-planned classes
1:1 Learning Conversations
Grading policies/processes
My presentation resources (will add link later)
Spotlight: Highline Big Picture,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email: frederick.butts@highlineschools.org
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: Highline Big Picture,
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
-Real World - project based learning co-created rubrics
-How to deepen or stimulate student engagement/joy in learning
-Project based CRSE project design
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
MS Analytical Rubric (in pilot)�LP Rubric
Co-Created Rubric draft�Bloom's Taxonomy
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
V Spotlight: Innovation Heights Academy,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email: Stephanie Gallardo Lara stephanie.gallardo@highlineschools.org
Our core strategies this year:
V Spotlight: Innovation Heights Academy,
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Innovation Lab High School
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are proud of our school culture and valuing student voice.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
13. There are many opportunities for students at our school to join with teachers in creating class projects, reflecting on learning, building school culture, leading initiatives, and imagining new approaches.
What we want to learn from other schools:
Managing flexible pacing within prescribed grading terms.
Structuring staff collaboration time for maximum buy-in and benefit.
Contact Name & Email: Kirby Morgan, kmorgan@nsd.org
Our core strategies this year:
Increased staff collaboration time within the school day.
Staff training/collaboration around PBL.
Spotlight: Innovation Lab High School
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
Schedule staff PD during the school day led by in-school experts. Creating expertise within the staff and then sharing it.
Crew.
Give student groups planning and implementation responsibilities.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
13. There are many opportunities for students at our school to join with teachers in creating class projects, reflecting on learning, building school culture, leading initiatives, and imagining new approaches.
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: La Conner MS/HS
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
Our competency-based credits in partnership with Swinomish Tribe.
Teachers are trying to implement and learning from each other.
Started an ALE program that is fully MBL-based.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Our learning outcomes are the basis for all teaching, learning, coaching, and assessment.
What we want to learn from other schools:
How do others structure their LMS to communicate progress on standards effectively with students, families, and admin?
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: La Conner
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
-Competency based credits with the tribe offer Swinomish teachings to students. Students are advocating for learning done beyond the traditional classroom. Swinomish now has Indigenously certified teachers in Language and Culture, Science and History.
-ALE is up and running. There is more student engagement, more choice, students earning credits
-Teachers continue to work together to learn and implement.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Our learning outcomes are the basis for all teaching, learning, coaching, and assessment.
What do you want to learn from other schools?
-Are there any LMS updates that might be helpful?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Not sure, today. Will add after collaboration.
Spotlight: Lind-Ritzville Middle School
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025,
this indicator will be true in our school or district: (not completed in fall 2024)
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: Lind Ritzville Middle School
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025,
this indicator will be true in our school or district: (not completed in fall 2024)
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Lind-Ritzville High School: Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025,
this indicator will be true in our school or district: (not completed in fall 2024)
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: Lind Ritzville High School
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025,
this indicator will be true in our school or district: (not completed in fall 2024)
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: Maritime High School,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Create opportunities for practice, feedback, and revision
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email: REBECCA GRUSSGOTT rebecca.grussgott@g.highlineschools.org
Our core strategies this year:
LISTENING
LEARNING
TRYING
REFLECTING
Spotlight: Maritime High School,
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Create opportunities for practice, feedback, and revision
Spotlight: Quincy Innovation
Academy, Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Create opportunities for practice, feedback, and revision
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name: Matthew Brewer mbrewer@qsd.wednet.edu
Our core strategies this year:
LISTENING
LEARNING
TRYING
REFLECTING
Spotlight: Quincy Innovation
Academy, Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
We’ve created an opportunity for students to share work and teach on subjects of expertise in a “Learner’s Showcase” format for district leaders and other community members.
We’ve utilized an online tool for students to share work attached to our learning standards and competencies. They share with other students and can get feedback from teachers and peers.
What do you want to learn from other schools?
How do other schools implement leveled rubrics to help students self-assess their learning?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Create opportunities for practice, feedback, and revision
Spotlight: Tumwater & Bush Middle Schools:
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, these indicators will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
Contact Name & Email: Danielle Longmire danielle.longmire@tumwater.k12.wa.us
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: Tumwater & Bush Middle Schools:
Cohort 1
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, these indicators will be true in our school or district:
Spotlight: Vanguard Academy,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We’ve survived a 50% reduction in staff with an increase in students, a 75% decrease in budget, and we out performed other schools in our district on state testing.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Mistakes and misconceptions are welcomed as a vital part of the learning process (adapted from NYC Leadership Academy).
What we want to learn from other schools:
Do you have themes for projects? What does your class/bell schedule look like? How are you implementing electives like PE, health, and World Languages?
Contact Name & Email: Matthew Stevens, mastevens@mlsd161.org, Amanda Saenz, asaenz@mlsd161.org, Kelcey Ramos, kramos@mlsd161.org
Our core strategies this year:
Stay true to MBL while reducing projects and interdisciplinary classes.
Spotlight: Vanguard Academy,
Cohort 1
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Mistakes and misconceptions are welcomed as a vital part of the learning process
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: West Valley Innovation Center,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned:
We have spent a lot of time aligning our standards and content in Core Pathway classes through co-teaching.
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Students at our school report through surveys, focus groups or other avenues that staff at this school hold high expectations and provide engaging instruction.
What we want to learn from other schools:
Understanding how to write proficiency scales and align standards across disciplines.
Contact Name & Email: Jed Watters (wattersj@wvsd208.org)
Our core strategies this year:
Implementing shared assessment strategies and using co-teaching to teach and assess standards.
Spotlight: West Valley Innovation Center,
Cohort 1
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, this indicator will be true in our school or district:
Students at our school report through surveys, focus groups or other avenues that staff at this school hold high expectations and provide engaging instruction.
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)
Spotlight: West Valley Mid Level Campus,
Cohort 1
Something we are excited about or proud of in our work so far or what we have planned: Academic Proficiency Scales for all classes, as well as Habit of Work scales across-building
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, these indicators will be true in our school or district:
What we want to learn from other schools:
How to implement MBL successfully in large, public middle schools.
Contact Name & Email:
Our core strategies this year:
Spotlight: West Valley Mid Level Campus,
Cohort 1
We are committed to ensuring that by Spring 2025, these indicators will be true in our school or district:
What are the most effective things you have done so far this year to achieve this (or other) MBLC goals?
What do you want to learn from other schools?
How to implement MBL successfully in large, public middle schools.
What resources could you share with others? (please include links)