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CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS:A Literacy Initiative to Connect

Teachers and Classrooms in the TDS Network

college career

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+Essential Questions

o How do we as Diplomas Now and Talent Development Secondary ensure that we are a “go to, indispensible reform partnership” for districts in the 21st Century

o What does it mean to be College and Career ready in 2015 and beyond??

o How can the integration of Educational Technologies into our existing ELA framework and materials support their alignment to the Common Core State Standards?

o How can we leverage current technologies to foster feelings of support and community for our teachers within the TDS and DN Network?

o What barriers exist for our teachers use of Educational Technology and what resources exist to overcome these barriers?

+OUR MISSION

Responding to the

Changing Nature of Literacy

by Helping Students

Endure

Beyond the Classroom.

+Looking back in order to look forward, a personal tale…

2001-2003 2011-20132003-2006 2006-2007 2007-2011 2013- BEYOND

+21st Century Skills

+21st Century Skills - Career Readiness

Employers across the United States cited professionalism/ work ethic, oral and written communications, teamwork and collaboration, and critical thinking and problem solving as the most important skills that recently hired graduates from high school and two- and four- year postsecondary institutions need. (Partnership for 21st Century)

EMPATHY

+COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.6

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.9Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.9Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.8Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

+PILOT PROGRAM 1 – Single ClassroomEastside Memorial High School in AUSTIN, TX

10th Grade RWYC – A Long Way Gone

Summative Assessment – Reading, Writing, and Viewing

Identify a theme from the novel and create a thematic statement

Identify 2 important scenes from the novel to support the thematic statement

Identify a current song and a current movie that makes a similar thematic statement

Students will create a page on www.smore.com

Connecting to Real World via Skyping– Speaking and Listening

Rwandan Genocide Survivor

Ask questions re: themes

Listen and Record Answers

+PILOT PROGRAM 1 – Single ClassroomEastside Memorial High School in AUSTIN, TX

9th Grade

Similar Summative Assessment:

Scaffolding was needed -

Students will create a PowerPoint presentation must write a Compare and Contrast Essay using a theme from the novel, a video

Creating Class Twitter Accounts

+PILOT PROGRAM 2 – Single ClassroomRhodes Middle School, San Antonio

Summative Assessments

6th – The Bully – Skyping with representative from The Bully Project

7th – The Outsiders – Submitting summative essays to XXX

8th – Monster – Submitting essays to Teen Ink

Collaboration with Digital Arts teacher on creating an online literary magazine.

+PILOT PROGRAM 3 - Connecting Classrooms

Eastside Memorial HS, Austin, TX

Daniel Webster HS, Tulsa, OK

+PILOT PROGRAM 3 - Connecting Classrooms

Connecting teachers to discuss what they discovered were best practices for teaching the 1st novel.

Designing opportunities for students to connect and share discourse about the novel and its themes.

Creating opportunities for students to connect with authentic audiences.

+Using vs. Integrating…

+POTENTIAL BARRIERS???

Time Constraints

Reliable Connectivity – Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, TX

+Next Steps –

Continue to Research & Follow Trends

Information Gathering – Tech availability and use in our schools, teachers who are early adopters and interested in integrating technology, Coaches and IFs who are interested,…

Piloting projects…

For any questions, thoughts, etc. -- dgross5@jhu.edu