Community Meeting - October 4, 2017 Viking Vision...

Viking Vision 2020Community Meeting - October 4, 2017

Carline SinklerPrincipal

Agenda:● Overview & Essential Questions● Student-Centered Learning ● Sparking Ideas - “The Adaptable Mind” ● Viking Goals → Viking Graduate Profile● Next Steps

Vision in ProgressYear 1 (2017- 2018) Year 2 (2018-2019) Year 3 (2019-2020)

Focusing Direction: Co-create Vision & Graduate Profile

Milestones & Measuring Progress

Reflect, Refine & Future Planning

Strategic Planning & Doing:● Identify our assets.

(Where are we already on the way?)

● Identify strategic shifts in systems and practices. (What do we need to learn or do differently to get us where we want to go?)

● Set ambitious goals

Milestones and measures to be determined (grounded in Vision and Graduate Profile)

● Reflect on where we are (student outcomes and learning experiences) compared to our goals.

● Refine and/or adapt practices.

● Forecast into the future -- 2025

Viking Vision & Focus2 Lenses → Essential Questions

Students engage in and take ownership of their learning. →

What is our shared vision of student-centered learning?Classroom and school learning experiences- what will we see, feel and hear?

Students leave us ready to flourish in college and/or career. →

What are academic, personal and social qualities and characteristics that describe our graduates?Expected School-wide Learning Outcomes

Classroom and school learning experiences: Seeing, feeling & hearing.

Imagine you walk into a class or see your student on campus or on a field trip and you think, “wow, I feel so great about what and how my child is learning”! What did you see, feel and hear? (Students - imagine yourself in this experience!)

Students engage in and take ownership of their learning. → What is our shared vision of

student-centered learning?

Graduates Being Human:Sparking Ideas

http://www.letitripple.org/films/adaptable-mind/

Students leave us ready to flourish in college and/or career. →

What are academic, personal and social qualities and characteristics that describe our graduates?Expected School-wide Learning Outcomes

From Goals to Viking Graduate Profile6 VIKING GOALS 1. Demonstrate Academic Proficiency

2. Transition Smoothly to School or Career

3. Be Physically Fit and Healthy

4. Be Involved

5. Be Responsible

6. Use Technology Appropriately

In Table Groups:

Review and sort “qualities/characteristics) cards that demonstrate desired traits of our Viking Graduates.

Select 6-8 cards that together, represent our graduates.

Talk with each other about your choices.

Which ones came up most?

Combining is OKAY!! AND, okay to add a card/description.

Make a poster with selected cards/descriptions around a “cap” or Design your own!

ACADEMIC PERSONAL INTERPERSONAL

● Content Mastery● Critical Thinking and

Problem Solving● Creativity and

Innovation● Information Literacy● Media Literacy● Financial Literacy● Civic Literacy● Health Literacy● Environmental

Literacy● Information,

Communications and Technology Literacy

● Flexibility and Adaptability

● Initiative and Self-Direction

● Productivity and Accountability

● Leadership● Personal

Responsibility● Resilience● Goal Directed● Conscientious● Citizenship● Metacognition /

Learning How to Learn

● Academic Mindset

● Communication● Collaboration● Global Awareness

Social and Cross-Cultural Skills

● Teamwork● Leadership● Empathy● Conflict Resolution● Entrepreneurship

VIKING GOALS 1. Demonstrate Academic Proficiency

2. Transition Smoothly to School or Career

3. Be Physically Fit and Healthy

4. Be Involved

5. Be Responsible

6. Use Technology Appropriately

Viking Vision 2020

NEXT Community Meeting - Monday, November 6th @ 6pm