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Assessing Creativity

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Welcome to Assessing Creativity

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Intro Us

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Dr. Ricardo Elizalde

Digital Learning Partner

DoT SFUSD

Devorah Merling

Digital Learning Partner

DoT SFUSD

Intro YOu!

Let’s get to know each other.

Tell us about yourself! Include your name, school, and your creative outlet

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Jamboard 1

Jamboard 2 (if needed)

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Note: Limit about 20 people per Jamboard

Agenda

• Big Picture
• Building the Foundation
• Getting Started
• Explore 1
• Explore 2
• Q/A
• Joining our PLC
• Appreciations / Closing

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Let’s Get Started

• Build a foundation for understanding how creative assessments meet students on a different level vs traditional formative assessment
• Provide information on how to get started thinking through units of instruction with a creative assessment built in
• Explore the power of using creative assessment and review some student work examples

Outcomes

Building the Foundation

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Traditional Grading

Creative Assessment

• Rubrics
• Student Created Content
• Authentic Presentation
• Collaborative
• Self Evaluation
• Peer Evaluation

Creative assessment is presented at the beginning of a unit with a scale for completion. Students work throughout the unit to complete parts of the work and then present their content to an authentic audience.

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• Quiz
• Unit Test
• Assignments
• Homework

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Traditional grading assessment focuses on students retelling the information that was presented to them and the completion of assigned work.

Why for Creative Assessment?

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Assessment, evaluation, and documentation are essential to any teaching and learning process. The way learning is documented and assessed directly influences what gets taught. Rather than a focus on products, assessment should focus on documenting a combination of learning processes and products as a way to inform pedagogical decisions.

Project Zero, 2021

Read this: article

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“It is our responsibility as educators to ‘empower students to think by helping them see the role that thinking plays in the world’ and to ‘give them time and opportunities to reflect on their own work and their own thinking’”

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Baynard Woods, 2018

How do traditional grading assessments affect our students?

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Breakout Room

In Groups of 3-4

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Share Your Thoughts on Assessment

Getting Started

Overview

Creative Assessment focusing on:

• Students having agency over how they express themselves and what they have learned
• Providing students opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of content through their choice of creative product
• Creating a learning environment where students see themselves as co-designers of their assessment and owners of their learning
• Culminated with the opportunity for students to share their learning authentically.

Characteristics of Creative Assessment

• Students have voice and choice to share their knowledge, culture and uniqueness
• Promotes equity and be inclusive of and accessible to all students
• Create opportunities for students to receive feedback and modify their content within the Feedback Cycle
• Opportunities to revisit projects for continuous improvement

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Develop

• Based on the outcomes of a Unit or lesson, develop the main concepts you want students to cover from their assessment
• Create an exemplary example to use with students to explain the goals of the assessment and outcomes
• Throughout the unit, students build and/or develop parts
• Optional: Design a rubric for the assessment and present to students with the exemplary example at the beginning of the unit/lesson to show students where they are going to go OR options of what they can choose from.

Develop

• Develop a grading system; rubric, points, self assessment, peer evaluation
• Use your creativity to build it out!
• Project Ideas
• Timeline ● Mind Map
• Book Cover/Jacket ● Game
• Comic Strip ● Poem/Song
• Newspaper ● Soundtrack
• Trading Cards ● Interview
• Social Media Profile ● Diary/Reflection
• Venn Diagram ● Book Trailer
• PSA or Commercial ● 3D Model

share some creative project ideas

Breakout Room

In Groups of 3-4

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creative Project Ideas

What’s in your teacher Toolbox?

Explore 1

Explore SFUSD Projects - High

Explore SFUSD Projects - Middle

Explore SFUSD Projects - Elementary

Jefferson Elementary Project

• Project Overview
• Student Films 2021
• Lit. Circle Scaffold

Want to go deeper with this?

PLC Preview Fall

Aug

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Overview of PLC

Intro to Assessing for Deeper Learning

• Overview
• Deeper Learning
• Annual Plan

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Intro to Digital Portfolio

• Intro to Digital Portfolios
• Why Digital Portfolios
• Mapping Portfolio

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Student Ownership

• Student choice and voice
• Students as codesigners
• Creating learning partnerships
• Building opportunities for student choice and voice.

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Oct

Iteration & Feedback Cycle

Dec

• Intro to Feedback Cycle
• Reflection & Feedback Protocols
• Students as CoDesigners of Assessment

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PLC Preview Spring

Jan

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Iteration Feedback Cycle

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• Workshop - participants bring their students artifacts of task based application.
• What did we learn? What would we change?

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April

May

Task Based Application

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• Students as co owners of their learning
• Project design rubrics.
• Mash up of digital tools

Reflection

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• Looking back and planning for exhibition of learning

Showcase

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• Present at District Showcase

Feedback and Interest Form

Join US

Feedback and Interest Form

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Digital District Day 2021

Equity, Agency & Opportunity

August 9th, 2021 ♦️

♦️ 8:30am - 4pm ♦️

Join us for our 6th annual Digital District Day!

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Everything you need to plan your day

• Anti-racism Speakers
• Hands-on workshops
• Student Panel

1:1 Technology Tutoring for Families, Teachers, & Paras

• Includes ParentVUE, Google Suite, Student Nutrition Form (MFIF), Online Enrollment!
• Plus Zoom, Seesaw, Chromebooks, Meet, Classroom
• ...in multiple languages!
• Sign up for a free, 30-minute virtual session at bit.ly/sftechtutors!

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SFUSD’s Google Resources

Resources for SFUSD employees

Resources for families

Google for Instruction

Submit a Help Desk ticket

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• Do Make Clear to Students & Families that Google Classrooms are for Students Only: Parents/Guardians should not join Google Classrooms as students as this is a data privacy issue. Teachers should invite parents/guardians to Google Classroom guardian email summaries so they can see information about their child.

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• Do Consider Turning Off Comments (at first):

Until online behavior norms are established, consider turning off class comments to limit inappropriate behavior in Classroom. Once norms and trust are established, you can mute individual students as needed in the “People” tab to prevent them from adding comments.

• Don’t invite non-SFUSD accounts (like CBOs) to join Classrooms:

Non-SFUSD accounts will not be able to join SFUSD Classrooms, so all CBOs, partners, and volunteers will need to get an SFUSD email if interacting with students or their work.

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• Don’t Invite Parents/Guardians to be Students in Your Classroom: �This is a FERPA violation for other students in your class. Only students, teachers, and related school professionals can be in SFUSD Google Classrooms. Instead, use Classroom’s automated daily/weekly emails, called guardian email summaries, to keep families in the loop about Classroom assignments and information.

Synergy is SFUSD’s Student Information System. All SFUSD teachers will use it to

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• View Student Information
• Contact families
• Log attendance
• Report Grades (grades 6-12)

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View our Synergy Setup Slide Deck for information on how to use this essential tool.

Google Sync with Synergy

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Synergy can sync with Google Classroom!

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Follow these steps to automatically update your Synergy Gradebook with Google Classroom assignments and view our recommendations for the sync!

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Why?

What?

Students learning how to conduct themselves online is a 21^st century skill promoting the Graduate Profile. We live in a digital world and it’s more important than ever to ensure our students understand how to be safe and responsible online.

Digital Agency Website with:

• Overview
• K-12 lesson plans
• Ready-made Asynchronous Content
• Family Resources
• Common Sense Certification

Digital Agency

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Creating positive communities that empower our students, staff, and families to navigate digital spaces and resources adeptly and responsibly.

Get Resources & Learn More:

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SFUSD Digital Agency

Support for Digital Learning Tools

SFUSD has a suite of approved and recommended applications that can be used to facilitate digital distance learning. The Department of Technology has created a variety of resources and professional learning opportunities to support teachers and staff with digital learning. These resources include:

SFUSD Approved Apps and The Digital Backpack

SFUSD teachers and students have access to digital tools that have been vetted for instructional use and compliance with student data privacy laws (eg COPPA, CIPA & FERPA).

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Clever is the tool we use for the Digital Backpack, your students’ personalized portal to their easy-to-access apps and your customized teacher resources. Clever also provides:

• Easy sign-in with badges or Google
• Customized teacher-pages (a great place for Zoom links), messaging, and app launching features
• Site- and District-Funded apps

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Educators can get up to 4 hours of PD credit for completing the Clever Academy!

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We don’t want you to sift through complicated data privacy laws and agreements, so we ask that you use our approved apps - you get tools that are safe, impactful, and compliant with the law

If your desired tool is not approved, submit a help desk ticket and the Digital Learning Team will be happy to assist in finding a similar tool in our approved app library!

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SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Core Digital Tools: Resources for Teachers & Families

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Zoom Improvements for 2021-2022!

• Safer meetings - our new security settings will create a safer environment so you and your students can concentrate on learning! ALWAYS make sure that “Require Authentication to Join” is checked when scheduling meetings, as shown at right
• Simpler logins - our new meetings are also easier to log in to! Staff can now use “Login with Google” instead of SSO, and students will log in automatically when they join meetings.

• Student names - to prevent impersonations and Zoombombings, students’ Zoom names are now taken directly from Synergy. Students can add specified names and pronouns using the Zoom rename feature. Information about name changes is available from lgbtq@sfusd.edu.

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• Do Check the Waiting Room: Check participant names against class rosters before allowing participants in from the waiting room

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• Do Turn Off Screen Sharing: While on by default, make sure you have this turned off in your settings to prevent a participant from sharing something in appropriate.

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• Do Manage Chat: Make sure students cannot chat to each other, student-to-student. Turn off the ability to chat everyone until online norms are established

• Don’t Make Zoom Links/Invites Public: You are asking for someone who shouldn’t be in the class to join you.

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• Don’t Allow Meetings to be Open to External Participants:

While SFUSD’s default is restricted to SFUSD, many teachers/staff requested external access. ALWAYS make sure that “Require Authentication to Join” is checked when scheduling meetings.

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• Don’t Leave Breakout Rooms Unsupervised

Students should have adult supervision in break-out rooms.

Video: Top 7 Zoom Safety Tips (1:44)

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Where to Post Zoom/Meet/Classroom Info

• Password-protected Class Sites in Synergy - Families can access through ParentVue and Students through StudentVue

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• Emails or messages sent through Synergy to students & Families

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• Google Classroom or Seesaw - do not share join codes to Classrooms/Seesaw as this opens the potential for students not in the class to access meeting links

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• Meeting Invites - that only have the students’ SFUSD emails invited

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• Meeting Agendas and/or Slide Decks with appropriate sharing settings

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Share Class Information Securely & Consistently

Being able to access classroom information securely in one place makes navigating distance learning easier for families, especially for middle and high schoolers and families with multiple students in the district.

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Post general class information, such as schedules, syllabi, Zoom/Google links on your Class Site in Synergy!

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Parents and Students will be able to access class information consistently in ParentVue and StudentVue.

Tech Resources for Families

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.EDU

The Portal for All Family Tech Solutions & Info

Family Portal (ParentVUE)

With an account, parents/guardians are able to:

Resources for Families: sfusd.edu/parentvue

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Strengthen family communication

and engagement to support our students anytime, anywhere.

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ParentVUE is accessible in six languages. English, Spanish, Cantonese, Arabic, Tagalog, and Vietnamese

Help Families Activate:

Resources for SFUSD Staff: sfusd.edu/parentvuetoolkit

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86% of students have at least one parent/guardianw ith an account. Click on the Dashboard to see your site’s rates.

Getting Started with Seesaw

• Seesaw Basic Set-Up for Teachers
• Seesaw Self-Guided Webinar
• Seesaw Help Center
• Seesaw for Families Page
• Getting Started: 1-pager

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• Do enter through Clever: Students and teachers should always enter Seesaw through clever.sfusd.edu

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• Do check settings for posts and comments:

In your classroom settings, make sure new items and comments are set to require approval by teacher

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• Do invite co-teachers from the district:

Paraprofessionals, coaches, interventionists and itinerant teachers can all be added as co-teachers to participate in your class.

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• Do invite families to your class:

When families are invited from the Seesaw class settings, they will only be able to view their own child’s work.

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• Don’t create your own Seesaw class for your homeroom class: Your homeroom class will be loaded and updated automatically, so you shouldn’t make a duplicate.

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• Don’t change the roster of your homeroom class: All roster changes should happen in Synergy and will copy over to Seesaw automatically.

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• Don’t make Seesaw join codes public:

Sharing join codes on a public website will allow anyone to join your class. Only students and teachers, and school administrators should participate in your class.

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SFUSD’s Digital Learning Scope & Sequence identifies digital learning competencies that help prepare students to meet SFUSD’s Graduate Profile and the ISTE Standards for Students

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Access the DLSS at: bit.ly/SFUSD_DLSS