Finding Your Path to PCBE��September 20, 2023
Who Are We?
Robin Kanaan
Angie Rye
Welcome Kalispell Schools Team!
We can’t wait to meet you in person, but for now let’s make some brief introductions.
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Why collaborate with KnowledgeWorks?
To scale and spread Personalized Competency-Based Education!
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Today’s Target
To provide an overview of the opportunity analysis process and provide a potential scope of work that will lead to the scale and spread of personalized competency-based education @ your school/classrooms/district.
Guiding Question
How can KnowledgeWorks facilitate and support learning
in Kalispell School District?
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Opportunity Analysis
Beginning the Journey with the End in Mind
What’s in a word?
Opportunity
Sounds like:
latitude, time, option, scope, prospect, opening, break, freedom to…moment, occasion, shot, chance, possibility
Analysis
-detailed examination of the elements or structure of something
Sounds like…
examination, study, breakdown, inquiry, evaluation, consideration, investigation, assessment, exploration
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The OA Process: Finding Your Path
We align all work to your unique, local vision for preparing all students for the future. | We develop a deep understanding of your needs, including progress toward the vision, community culture and strengths, and unique stakeholder perspectives. | We help you identify growth goals for building educator capacity and aligning district-wide systems. | We suggest methods to measure progress, continuously improve and sustain impact over time. |
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The OA Process: Finding Your Path
The WHY: The purpose of the OA is to guide learning communities as they advance a data-informed, locally-driven action plan for transformation to a personalized, competency-based education system.
The WHAT: Using the KW Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized Competency-Based Learning, an Opportunity Analysis outlining areas of strength and opportunities for growth will be developed.
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The Opportunity Analysis
WHY
WHAT
HOW
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Shared
Vision
Culture
Agency
Transparency
12 Conditions for Scaling�Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Innovation Affirmations
Our focus: 8 Conditions
Curriculum
Instruction
Assessment
Flexible Learning Environments
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The OA Process: Finding Your Path
PLAN
Based on consensus, determine the priority focus areas and goals for the PCBE direction. Schools will develop strategies that align with the District goals. The strategic actions at the building levels will impact the conditions of a PCBE transformation.
ASSESS
Using the Nav Tool rubrics, determine current level in each element of the following conditions: Shared Vision, Culture, Agency, Transparency, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, Flexible Learning Environment.
REFLECT
Provide evidence to support your findings. Evidence sources may include data from observations, walk-throughs, artifacts, strategic plans, student-level data, PLC targets, etc…
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Alignment
District’s Vision
Your Vision
Your Intentions
Your Actions
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How does this align to with the KPS vision?
Nav Tool Condition
Learning communities will foster a culture of innovation through safe, inclusive environments
Shared vision unifies the learning community toward a common purpose, but grows a culture of trust that gives individuals voice in achieving the vision
Learner centered, equitable outcomes engage and empower all learners in ownership through personalization
Shared decision making that allow learners to have ownership in how, when and where they learn while supporting the whole child with personalized learning supports
Kalispell Big 4
Growth mindset and change process
Schools are allowed to work toward the district vision at their own pace, but collaboratively with all stakeholders
Integration of high impact strategies that center around developing teacher capacity for PCBE
Identification of priority standards is moving teams/departments towards learning progressions and development of whole child competencies
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Personalized Learning in the Classroom
In a personalized learning classroom, there’s a shared sense of responsibility around learning. Everyone, from teachers, students and administrators to parents and community leaders, recognizes the need for students to have a voice in what learning looks like and how it’s assessed. Students are engaged in partnership with their teachers: they know what they’re learning and why, they move forward when they’re ready and they get help when they need it.
A System of Personalized Education
Personalized, competency-based education cannot exist only in the classroom. System-level shifts must occur to support classroom practices. Students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community members must all work together to transform teaching and learning.
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Personalized Pathways for
Professional Learning
KPSD5 Pathways for Professional Learning
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Building Based
Impact Teams:
Going Deeper
BootCamp:
Getting Started
Visitations
Launch Cohort:
“I’m getting it!”
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Just Getting Started:
Personalized Learning Bootcamp
BootCamp
Getting Started
2-3 Hours
General PCBE Content
Led by District/
School Leaders
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“I’m Getting It!” Launch Cohort
Content will be provided virtually through a blended learning environment that enables school and district leaders, instructional coaches, and lead teachers to access fundamental components of personalized, competency-based education.
Opportunities to process and share learning will be provided weekly over a six-week period to connect and apply data from the opportunity analysis with the Big 4 framework of Kalispell Schools. The information gained from these shared learning experiences will be utilized to prepare for school-based impact teams to scale and spread the work in the spring.
Voice & Choice within Content
Application, Reflection, & Collaboration
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Going Deeper: Impact Teams
Outcome: To spread PCBL practices at the school and classroom levels.
Description: School based teams of 5-7 members (including principal, instructional coach, lead teachers) will engage in professional learning to scale and spread PCBE classroom and school practices. KW asynchronous learning modules as well as a variety of resources will provide content.
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Impact Team Pathways and Learning Cycles
LEARN
APPLY
REFLECT
REVISE/EXTEND
SHARE
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Learner
Agency
Assessment
Student Supports
Mastery
Pathways and Pacing
Equity
Standards Based
Students receive timely, differentiated support based on individual learning needs.
Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.
Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, actionable evidence.
Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.
Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.
Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.
Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions), are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable. Aurora Institute, 2019
Learning and Implementation Plan
Using your learning combined with analysis of the agency tool, determine next steps:
SAMPLE
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But first, it all begins with an Opportunity, Analysis that is!
Reflect and Assess
The Process
Once the conditions have been assessed, district focus areas and goals will be determined and building-level strategies developed.
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Shared Vision
Alignment to Big 4: Profile of the Graduate/Learner
A shared vision unifies the learning community’s commitment towards a common purpose, ensuring ownership through collective decision-making and accountability. An aligned and collaborative strategic planning process allows each person to understand their role in achieving equitable outcomes for each learner.
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Shared Vision
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Culture
(Alignment to Big 4: Culture)
Culture is a set of collective behaviors, beliefs, and values that drive transformation towards the shared vision. In a personalized, competency-based system, the culture is built on relationships and sustained around expectations of innovative mindsets, inclusivity, celebrations of growth, and continuous improvement at all levels.
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Culture
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Culture
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Virtual OA Session Dates
Thursday, September 28, 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 3, 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.
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