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PROCESS

  • Educational Conference
    • August 2019
    • Focus on MS education, district-wide

  • Educational Visioning
    • October 2019
    • Extend Educational Conference concepts
      • Deeper dive into most important educational deliveries
    • Focus on WMS and JSMS facilities

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KEY WORDS FOR EDUCATION

  • Collaboration/collaborative Collaborative/Personalized (cited 5 times)
  • Creativity, Creating Possibilities (3 times)
  • Innovative/Future-looking (3)
  • Fluid/Fluid and adaptable (2)

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KEY WORDS FOR FACILITIES

  • Flexible (cited 4 times), Flexible/Beautiful/, Flexible/Dynamic, Flexible/spacious, Flexible/undefined, Flexible/warm (8 total)
  • Community, community/place to be, unified community (3)
  • Innovative/innovative/future-looking (2)
  • Comfy/friendly, comfy/fun (2)

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MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE MSs

EDUCATION

  • Student Engagement
  • Social/Emotional Learning
  • 21st Century Skills/Competencies

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FACILITIES

  • 21st century schools
    • Planned to support relationships as the first priority
  • Safety and security
    • Appropriate security strategies aligned with non-traditional floor plans and the international organization Crime Prevention through Environmental Design

FACILITIES (cont’d)

  • Flexible, varied, brain based furniture
    • Allowing students to move
    • Flexible, allowing teachers and students to move furniture
  • 21st century learning studios and extended learning areas
    • Active learning spaces; the word “Classroom” no longer suffices
  • Teacher Planning Centers
    • Strategically placed in Small Learning Communities to foster relationships and increase professionalism

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EXPLORATION OF INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION

PROJECT BASED LEARNING

  • Level of student engagement projected to be 6-7 out of 10
  • Positively endorsed by the one Table Team exploring Project Based Learning

MAKING THINGS TO LEARN

  • Level of student engagement projected to be 7 to 10 out of 10 by the Table Teams
  • Enthusiastically endorsed by all five Table Teams exploring Project Based Learning

 

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MOST EFFECTIVE

  • Project-based learning
  • Small group work/ student collaboration
  • Peer tutoring/teaching
  • Social/ emotional learning
  • Making things, prototyping, STEM, STEAM
  • Interdisciplinary learning
  • Thematic/integrated learning
  • Teacher teaming/ larger group synchronous collaboration

LEAST EFFECTIVE

  • Lecture
  • Direct teaching

LEARNING MODALITIES

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SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION + DEVELOPMENT MAP

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SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION + DEVELOPMENT MAP

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SCHOOL ORGANIZATION

  • Radical rethinking of the school organizational model, including:
    • Thematic Small Learning Communities (SLCs) with teacher looping with integration of “specials” with core learning
    • Thematic multi-age interdisciplinary, autonomous SLCs with teacher looping, and synchronous teacher teaming
    • Thematic multi-age (5/6)(7/8) SLCs, looping with teacher autonomy, integration of “specials” with core learning, with wellness group to support teaming and embedded Special Education and Gifted/Talented
    • Greatest flexibility for teachers to meet needs of students

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  • Thematic vertical/multi-grade Small Learning Communities (SLCs)
  • Integration of “specials” with core learning
  • SLCs with teacher autonomy: control of schedules, curriculum delivery, teaming, student placements, and more

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MOST APPROPRIATE

  • FOREST AVENUE K-2 CENTER

Cited by 6 of 7 Table Teams

PLACES FOR LEARNING

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MOST APPROPRIATE

  • IPSWICH MIDDLE SCHOOL

Cited by 5 of 7 Table Teams

PLACES FOR LEARNING

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MOST APPROPRIATE

  • SLATE MAGAZINE 5TH GRADE EXPLORATORY CLASSROOM

Cited by 3 of 7 Table Teams

PLACES FOR LEARNING

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MOST APPROPRIATE

  • WOORANNA PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL + MILAN CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES
  • Cited by 3 of 7 Table Teams

PLACES FOR LEARNING

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MOST APPROPRIATE

  • NORTH RIDGEVILLE ACADEMIC CENTER (GRADES 3-8)

Cited by 2 of 7 Table Teams

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PLACES FOR LEARNING

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FUTURE FURNITURE

MOST APPROPRIATE

  • Student Controlled Furniture

  • Group Discussion Areas

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FUTURE FURNITURE

MOST APPROPRIATE

  • D School, Stanford U, Maker Space

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JSMS ESSENTIAL PLANNING CONCEPTS

  • Flexible space
  • Flexible thinking
  • 2 groupings: 5/6 + 7/8

PLANNING CONCEPTS

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WMS ESSENTIAL PLANNING CONCEPTS

  • At the very center, easy access for all:
    • Dining Commons/Learning Commons/Arrival Space
  • From this canter, direct access to:
    • Gym
    • Auditorium
    • Administration
    • Nurse
    • Toilets
  • Gatekeeper at the Main Entrance
  • Surrounded by Small Learning Communities
    • Controlled access to Small Learning Communities

PLANNING CONCEPTS

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OVERALL PLANNING DIAGRAM

PLANNING CONCEPTS

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