Learning materials in support of the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES Curriculum Council

1. Strategic Coherence
Focus & Connect
Content Companion - Participant Notes and Reflections
What are the cultural assumptions that a teacher could
make with these students that no teacher can make with
his/her students today?
Three kinds of work….

2. What do you consider the most important foundational skills and attributes that will be
required for students to be successful in 2025?
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Check out these resources on Slideshare – www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
● Common Core Venn Diagram
● 21st
Century Skills Crosswalk
● Four Highest Leverage Student Skills
What standardized and/or non-standardized data do you have to describe how the
students in your district are doing in their quest to master any of the skills you have
identified?
Standardized Non-Standardized

3. American Revolution– Boston Massacre: Murderor Justifiable Homicide?
1. What are the goals ofthis lesson(studentlearning)?
2. How would you measure success?
3. What is happeninginthe learning environmentwhere thiswork isbeingcompleted?
● What are studentsdoing and what skillsdo they needto be successful
● What are teachersdoing and what skillsdo theyneedto be successful?
5 Minutes of Reflection
Warm Cool

4. Connect the Layers: - Student/Professional/Organizational
Putting it all together…

5. Which side of the continuum are you on?
These planning goals are set BEFORE the process starts…

6. Any School District 2015-2016
Coherence Mapping - Goals, Measures and Practices
District Level
Goals District/Community selectshighest leverage student skillsforthe school-wide
improvement focusgoal -
Measures District/Community Agrees on Metrics for
Success – How we will knowif a student
has obtained these skills (standardized
measures).
District/Community Agrees on Metrics for
Success – How we will knowif a student
has obtained these skills (non-standardized
measures).
Practices School/Community creates professional learning opportunitiesfor instructional staff that
are aligned with the highest leverage/needed instructional strategies.
Building Level
Goals School/Community selectshighest leverage student skills forthe school-wide
improvement focusgoal -
Measures School/Community Agrees on Metrics for
Success – How we will knowif a student
has obtained these skills (standardized
measures).
School/Community Agrees on Metrics for
Success – How we will knowif a student
has obtained these skills (non-standardized
measures).
Practices School/Community creates professional learning opportunitiesfor instructional staff that
are aligned with the highest leverage/needed instructional strategies.

7. Teacher Level
Goals
Each teacher sets an appropriate improvement goal for their students that is
aligned with the school’s high leverage student skill goal as the foundation for
their own professional learning and performance plan.
Team or Grade Level groups may add an additional skill improvement goal
(optional) that reflects a specific level based area of focus for inclusion in their
own professional learning and performance plans.
Measures
Each teacher identifies metrics of success (standardized) for the school’s focus
goal that align with the school’s measures and their own student’s performance
SLO 1 –
IADG 1a –
Each teacher identifies metrics of success (non-standardized) for the school’s
focus goal that align with the school’s measures and their own
student’s performance
IADG 1b
If an optional skill improvement goal was added, metrics of success (standardized
and non-standardized) for this goal are added to the teacher’s plan
SLO 2
IADG 2a
IADG 2b
Practices
The teacher engages with the School based professional learning opportunities
that are aligned with the highest leverage/needed instructional strategies for their
professional staff and compliment the district offerings.
My own personalized additional professional learning opportunities/resources for
this goal can be integrated into the teacher’s plan.

8. Supporting Resources:
1. Email Jonathan – jpcostasr@gmail.com - Text Jonathan (identifyyourselfplease) 860-484-9109
2. OtherContent from Jonathan Costa - (lookfor – among other things)
On Twitter @jpcostasr
http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
 Big Nine Skills– “BigNine”
 Four High Leverage Skills– “FourHighestLeverage Student Skills”
 21st
Century Skills– “21st
CenturySkillsCrosswalk”
 AnalysisTool – “Leverage GapAnalysis”
3. My book about the endof books - http://digitallearningforallnow.com
4. Otherbook content resourcesrelatedto thisprocess….
• The Goal:A Processof OngoingImprovement,by Eliyahu M. Goldrattand JeffCox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29
• Results: The Key to ContinuousSchool Improvement,byMike Schmoker
http://www.ascd.org/Publications/ascd-authors/mike-schmoker.aspx
• Goodto Great: WhySome CompaniesMake the Leap...AndOthers Don’t, by Jim Collins
http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html
5. Pareto Principal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto
6. Ted Talk on the importance of focus – it not onlyworks, it is almost always presentamong those
that are successful…
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-importance-of-focus-richard-st-john
7. An article from Jonathan Costa about BYOD and Digital Learning from EdTech Magazine…
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/author/jonathan-p-costa-sr
8. A self-directedLiveBindercontentsite that explainsa processfrom moving from textbooksto
digital content in the support of courses in your schools –
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1266627
Visions and the Need for Change: What will the future looklike?
A 4 minute video from the MacArthur Foundation about reaching digital natives…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw

9. A series of web resources that connect gaming with learning…
http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/initiatives/
An awesome 11 minute video summary of the case for transformations…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
An article on the impact of social networking and connectivity on learning…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/19/technology-
future-education-cloud-social-learning
A web-based summary of Stanford University’s thinking on the topic…
http://edf.stanford.edu/
A 3 minute video about the joint effort of Harvard and MIT -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJZN700YS0o
A variety of other interesting links and perspectives…
http://www.futureofeducation.com/
http://www.envisioning.io/education/
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-future-of-education-byod-in-the-classroom/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/unschooling-the-future-of-education/
http://www.bbc.com/future/tags/futureeducation
21st Century Skills: What, Why, and How?
My team’s web page that describes our Center for 21st Century Skills
http://www.skills21.org
An awesome 13 minute video of one of our 15 year-old students describing her year-long
experience with us and the product of her team’s work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_3NF3Jd94&feature=youtu.be
A 101 page study on creating an appropriate 21st century learning environment…
http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/243-creating-an-appropriate-21st-
century-education.html
This article from Lawrence Summers – Harvard President – about the changes – or lack of
changes – needed at the university level driven by 21st century skills.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-21st-century-
education.html?pagewanted=all

10. This web article discusses the emergence of programming – the language of the digital age –
as THE CORE 21st Century Skill
http://readwrite.com/2013/05/31/programming-core-skill-21st-
century?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwri
teweb+(ReadWriteWeb)
General Instructional Resources and Ideas
Kahn Academy – the site that launched the idea of the “Flipped Classroom”
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Customized reading articles based on current events and a reader’s ability – assessments
included – a breakthrough in personalized language arts instruction.
http://www.newsela.com
Welcome to the world of the MOOC – Massive Open Online Course – changing the face of
learning and higher education.
https://www.coursera.org/
Let the masses have access to the information! MIT’s open courseware project.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
A nice summary of the empowering nature of digital learning
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/01/10-ways-technology-supports-
21st.html