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Fall Gathering 2024

WELCOME!

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Welcome!

Cohort One:

Cohort Two:

  • Avanti High School
  • CHOICE Academy
  • East Grays Harbor High School
  • Edgemont Junior High School
  • Elma Elementary School
  • Elma Middle School
  • Enumclaw High School
  • GATES High School
  • George Bush Middle School
  • Highline Big Picture
  • Innovation Heights Academy
  • Innovation Lab High School
  • La Conner Middle/High School
  • Lind-Ritzville High School
  • Lind-Ritzville Middle School
  • Maritime High School
  • Quincy Innovation Academy
  • Tumwater Middle School
  • Vanguard Academy
  • West Valley Innovation Center High School
  • West Valley Mid-level Campus
  • A G West Black Hills High School
  • Career Academy at Truman Campus
  • Catalyst Public Schools
  • Cottonwood Elementary School
  • Discovery Elementary School
  • Dishman Hills High School
  • Envision Career Academy
  • Gibson Ek High School
  • Heights Campus Open Doors
  • Hudson's Bay High School
  • James A. Taylor High School
  • Legacy High School
  • Lopez Island School District
  • Methow Valley Independent Learning Center
  • Minter Creek Elementary School
  • Nespelem High School
  • Open Doors at Truman Campus
  • Pinnacles Prep Charter School
  • Purdy Elementary School
  • Rainier Valley Leadership Academy
  • Sno-Isle TECH Skills Center
  • Summit Virtual Academy
  • Tulalip Heritage High School
  • Tumwater High School

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Our Guiding Value:

Educational Equity:

LEADING FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: Educators create opportunities and remove barriers to ensure each and every student experiences the full benefit of public education.

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  • from PESB CCDEI Standards for Educators

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Our Central Strategies:

Educational Equity

Mastery-Based Learning

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education

Anti-Racism

Our Mission

The Essential Strategies

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Opening Protocol:

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A Commitment to Restorative Justice and Call for Action

Delivered by: Elise Bill-Gerrish, M.Ed.

“We are alive and strong”

Native Education mural, �Auburn High School

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Community Agreements

  1. Take care of ourselves and each other.
  2. Keep students’ wellbeing and learning at the center.
  3. Ask questions as you seek to understand.
  4. Share the air. Take space/make space.
  5. Brave space > safe space.
  6. Embrace a learner’s stance. Lean into learning �and unlearning.
  7. Recognize discomfort as a chance for reflection �and learning.
  8. Call each other in, not out.

What else do �we need?

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Human Scavenger Hunt

Goal: Meet your MBLC colleagues!

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  1. Meet and mingle. Introduce yourself.
  2. Ask questions to find out if your new friend can help you fill in any of the spaces on this scavenger hunt. If so, add their name and school or district.
  3. You can’t use the same name twice.

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OUTCOMES

  1. Building capacity with MBL and CRSE at the classroom and schoolwide levels.
  2. Building community with others in the MBLC.
  3. Crafting plans for working towards educational equity in our schools and districts in the year ahead.

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AGENDA

Welcome and Introductions

CRS MBL Indicators of Success - what do they look like in action?

Educator Panel

LUNCH

Workshops

Carousel - Meeting & Connecting with other schools

Closing & Feedback

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Congratulations to the MBLC Impact Fellows!

  1. Brandon Austin, West Valley Innovation Center, Yakima
  2. Brian Caouette, Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver
  3. Laura Chevalier, Bush Middle School, Tumwater
  4. Keith Clark, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy, Seattle
  5. Jake Fincher, Dishman Hills High School, Spokane Valley
  6. Stephanie Gallardo Lara and Kevin Takisaki, Innovation Heights Academy, Burien, WA
  7. Jennifer Hryciw, Federal Way School District
  8. Valinda Jones and Angela Quiram, GATES High School, Tacoma
  9. Rebecca Lee, Summit Virtual Academy, Lacey
  10. Martha Martin, Lopez Island Schools, Lopez Island
  11. Kirby Morgan, Innovation Lab HS, Bothell

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12. Alex Pacifico, Catalyst Public Schools, Bremerton

13. Jason Roberts, Tumwater School District

14. Luis Rodriguez, Pinnacles Prep, Wenatchee

15. Gabriel Rose, Dishman Hills High School, Spokane Valley

26. Jodi Scott, West Valley School District, Yakima

17. Don Vanderholm, Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools, Lind-Ritzville

18. Levon White, Rainier Valley Leadership Academy, Seattle

19. Erinn Zeitlin, Summit Virtual Academy, Lacey, WA

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How can we collaborate more with our students/families?

What does CRS MBL look like?

Why is it so important for our school & our students?

Why not just do things the way we always have?

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This common language for learning is the foundation

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The essential systems,

structures, & cultural elements

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Indicators of Success

What do they look like in action?

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Review the Implementation Steps (in your folders). If we were to send an interview crew to your school and ask your students to talk about what it’s like to be a student there, would they talk about any of these elements? Which ones?

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Indicators of Success

What did you notice that seems to reflect youth-

centered, mastery-

based learning?

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Indicators of Success

What did you notice that seems to reflect youth- centered, mastery- based learning? Jot down some notes:

Rose: What do you see that is blossoming - places where CRS MBL are clearly evident in this classroom?

Bud: What potential for growth or further work do you see? What possibilities are there?

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Indicators of Success

What did you notice that seems to reflect youth-

centered, mastery-

based learning?

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Indicators of Success

What did you notice that seems to reflect youth- centered, mastery- based learning? Jot down some notes:

Rose: What do you see that is blossoming - places where CRS MBL are clearly evident in this classroom?

Bud: What potential for growth or further work do you see? What possibilities are there?

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Indicators of Success

As you watch, jot down words or phrases that stand out to you. Record one phrase that especially stood out to you on your index card.

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QR Code for Slides

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Educator Panel

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Panelists

  • Fred Butts, Highline Big Picture, Principal
  • Beth Clothier, La Conner Schools, Director of Teaching and Learning
  • Carissa Duran, Escondido Union High School District (CA), A-G Coordinator
  • Stephanie Gallardo Lara, Innovation Heights Academy, (Highline), Dean of Students
  • Jason Roberts, Bush MS (Tumwater), Science Teacher

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Panel Discussion Themes

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE

TEACHER LEADERSHIP

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LUNCH

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Welcome Guest Presenters!

Rebecca Midles

Vice President of Learning Design at Getting Smart

Carissa Duran

A-G Coordinator from the Escondido Union High School District

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Afternoon Workshops

  1. Carissa Duran: Equitable Grading Practices Nuts and Bolts - Emerald City Room
  2. Melanie Shivraj: Rigor and Rubrics (Hess/DOK/Bloom and Single Point)- Main Room
  3. Kate Gardoqui & Christina Balkaran: Cognitive Wobble & Shared Language for Learning: Creating Classrooms that Invite Curiosity - Willow Room
  4. Rebecca Midles: Mindful Change Leadership for Personalized Learning Systems - Pine/Noble Room
  5. Elis Kanner: Beyond the Jargon: Tools for Implementing Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education - River Room

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Time for a break

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Carousel Preparation

  1. Navigate to this site: bit.ly/MBLCspotlights24

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2. Find your school’s slide and fill in your information

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Carousel

  • With your team, review the carousel slides and identify 2 schools you would like to connect with
  • Select one person to stay at your table while the others circulate
  • What do you want to hear more about?
  • What resources are you looking for?

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Found Poetry - Kaitlyn and Tyriq

  • Each table has a set of 8 cards
  • Create your own poem
  • You can repeat cards
  • Use the words on the card however you want, without adding new words

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Stop and Jot

  • What would you like to know from your students now?
  • What are 3 questions you wish a film-maker could ask them?
  • What kinds of activities would you like to record in your classes?

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Suit Yourself!

What is one idea you want to share, and who you will share it with?

What is one new idea you are considering trying at your school?

Who is a person you’d like to follow up with after today? Or an idea you’d like to learn more about?

What is one goal you have for the year? What are you going to do next to make this happen?

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Clock Hours

Event ID: 175934

Claim code: GWA-95Y

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Registration Link (Invite Only): https://www.pdenroller.org/ospi/catalog/175934

Registration Close Date:

Friday, October 25, 2024, 5 pm

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FEEDBACK PLEASE!

bit.ly/MBLCGather

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Materials

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All materials from today’s Gathering and workshops will be linked in the online agenda

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https://sites.google.com/greatschoolspartnership.org/mblc-community

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Thank

You!

Travel Safely

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