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HS Early Release

Office Hours

September 17th, 2020

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How We Feel About You Being Here

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Corny Joke of the Day

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Why are there gates around cemeteries?

Because people are dying to get in!

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Imagine a Vacation!

  • Navigate to the Padlet: bit.ly/CSER1
  • Add a Post to the map with:
    • Your name and location
    • A comment with what you did/would do
    • Add an image!

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PLC Website

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CSinSF.org/PLC

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Goals

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  • Collaboratively Plan for Distance Learning
  • Build a collaborative and supportive community
  • Receive support to prepare to teach CS

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Agenda

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2.00 - 2.25

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Whole group

  • Community builder
  • Announcements
  • Curriculum Adaptations

25 minutes

2.25 - 2.45

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Breakouts.

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Roses and Thorns

Additional conversation

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  • Starter Padlet: Roses & Thorns in distance learning
    • bit.ly/CSER2

Optional Breakout:

  • Around topics teachers would like to discuss.

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20 minutes

2.45 - 3:00

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Whole group closing

  • Celebrations
  • Survey poll: bit.ly/CSPD2021

10 minutes

3:00 - 3.30

Breakout conversations

Independent Reflection or small group time.

30 minutes

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Norms

  • It’s okay to make mistakes
  • It’s okay to not always have the answers
  • Be equity-minded
  • Be student-centered
  • Be present
  • Accept and expect non-closure

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Updates/

Resources

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Racial Justice in the CS classroom Seminars

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Flyer Details

7 monthly workshops Sept to April: Stipend: $2000

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SCALE

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Answers from Different districts: Slides: Fun #DistanceLearning Playlist.

“What is a best practice or resource you’ve used or observed that has equitably and positively impacted student experience in distance learning?

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Student Surveys

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Pre Survey bit.ly/CS_pre

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Post Survey bit.ly/CS_post

924 responses since the start of the school year, Thank you!

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Code.org DL Modifications

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Outward Bound Resources

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Supplemental Curriculums

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Soundtrap

Soundtrap/We Video PLC - DoT

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Distance Learning Roses and Thornes

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Distance Learning Updates

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  • Go to Padlet: https: bit.ly/CSER2

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  • Please Share what is working, current challenges, and questions

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Give One, Get One

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GIVE ONE, GET ONE

Beats of the activity:

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  • On your own, identify a best practice/resource to share and record it on your personal note card slide.
  • Join a (psuedo) randomly selected partner in a room for five minutes and “exchange” best practices/resources.
  • Repeat.
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  • Connect with a Breakout Room group of four. Identify opportunities, needs, themes and patterns to share with full group.

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GIVE ONE, GET ONE

  • On a virtual index card, respond to the following:

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“What is a best practice or resource you’ve used or observed that has equitably and positively impacted student experience in distance learning?”

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The #DistanceLearning Playlist from Mr. Ed Campos

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Your Distance Learning Best Practice/Resource:

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Efforts to build relationships to help ensure that students enter the learning space ready to learn (e.g., the secret code, the daily compliment)

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Best Practice/Resource from Partner #2: Phillip James

Applying for the rural tech project, funded by CDE to promote technology integration. Also SINED as a source of curriculum/content for HS students. Designed as a distance learning approach with rural areas in mind

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #3: Sophia

LAUSD #EmpoweredbyITI Videos

Created bite-sized how-to videos for educators, not only technological approaches, but also leveraging features for pedagogical approaches and meeting SEL needs. Had 6 in the first month, have continued to build. Videos live on the district’s ITI website and its YouTube channel

achieve.lausd.net/Page/16791#spn-content

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #1: Lauren

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Daniel Stanford’s Bandwidth/ Immediacy Matrix

For example, districts had a requirement that student cameras were on, but bandwidth limitations and instabilities often prevents access to teaching & learning. Idea is to find a balance between high/low bandwidth activities and synchronous/asynchronous activities. Helps to address equity issues while also giving teachers low-burden supports to help them with teaching.

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-multiple lines of communication for both students and parents (learning management systems, whatsapp, google groups, school-wide emails, etc.) so that people can access information, resources, zoom links, etc. more easily regardless of socioeconomic status or preferred communication styles

-my son loves go noodle videos

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #2:

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Lauren Aranguren:

Band Width

use in teacher PD, schools, districts - have equity conversations about different levels of access to bandwidth and how that impacts student learning - understanding how immediate and not-immediate learning can serve different needs (important to have mix of synch and asynch learning - balance low and high bandwidth activities)

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #3:

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #1:

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-rural tech project through CDE - talking to local colleges and IT resources to think about info tec CS realm - looking at SYNED online curriculum for content and hope to collaborate with local colleges to act as feeder for HS students to get into IT field

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Your Distance Learning Best Practice/Resource:

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“Despite this being on a virtual platform this is still teaching and learning. Teachers present, students ask questions, work with the content and teachers assess.”

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Paraphrased from a teacher friend when she was giving a training to teachers on Google Classroom

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #2: Roxanna

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Inclusion activities and reflection

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #3: Heidi Baynes

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Less is more. Choosing a few tools that are vetted and approved by the district can facilitate learning from a distance. Collaborate with other instructors to divide the workload so that you are not tasked with creating a ton of new materials.

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Best Practice/Resource from Partner #1: Sophia Mendoza

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The #EmpoweredByITI video collection are short, focused videos designed by ITI instructional technology facilitators with the goal of demonstrating instructionally rigorous ways of using digital tools and resources.

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https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/16791#spn-content

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Less is more. Choosing a few tools that are vetted and approved by the district can facilitate learning from a distance. Collaborate with other instructors to divide the workload so that you are not tasked with creating a ton of new materials.

  • RUSD Parent Tech Tip videos
  • offering Virtual Office Hours to help teachers feel more supported and learn how to use different tech tools

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #3:

Best Practice/Resource from Partner #1:

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Bit.ly//SDCOE-Learn

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Breakouts

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Breakout

Example ideas: See padlet for more.

  • Zoom tips and challenges
  • Virtual Pedagogy
  • Structures and timing

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Celebrations

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Closeout Survey

  • What do you want to get out of this shared release time together?
  • How can we in the CS Department support you?
  • Survey poll: bit.ly/CSPD2021

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Independent Study

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Continue in small groups

or or Independent Plan

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Sub Plans

  • Hour of Code activities
  • Lightbot
  • Typing.com, nitrotype
  • Common sense media worksheets
  • Movies
  • Kahoots- with student devices
  • Web Tutorial: gamestar mechanic
  • Code Combat: free 1st levels
  • Khan Academy
  • Codeingame.com
  • NSA day of cyber

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We are grateful for your work!

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