The document discusses 21st century learning initiatives in the Twin Rivers Unified School District. It provides details about:
1) Professional development for teachers on 21st century skills, including training principals and implementing a digital learning academy pilot program in several schools.
2) Efforts to incorporate 21st century skills into the K-6 report card and refine the skills to include self-direction, collaboration, higher-order thinking, social skills, technology literacy, creative thinking, cultural literacy and information literacy.
3) A video project capturing 21st century skills in action through classroom vignettes and interviews with teachers from 8 schools. The goal is to create a video for each of the 8 skills to advance learning
3. “For young people, new digital
technologies…are primary
mediators of human-to-human
connections. They have created
a 24/7 network that blends the
human with the technical to a
degree we haven’t experienced
before.”
-John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, Born
Digital: Understanding the First
Generation of Digital Natives
4. 21st Century Learning Initiatives
• Strategically diversify –
principals, SLC’s, teacher
librarians, elementary and secondary
• Spread through each neighborhood
networks
• Collaboratively created/delivered between
Instructional Technology and, C & I
Departments
– K-6 Report Card
– Principal/Student Learning Coach PLC
– Video Project
– Professional Development
5.
6. 2009 21st Century Learning
Academy Participating Schools
Joyce
Kohler
Sierra View
Highlands High
Hagginwood
Johnson
Noralto
Rio Tierra
Smythe (7-8)
Grant
Woodridge
Frontier
Pioneer
Regency Park
Westside
Orchard
Norwood
Rio Linda Jr.
8. Aug. 2008
K – 6 Report
Card
Committee
Recommend
s inclusion of
21 C skills
First
Principals
PLC
Session
8 June,
2009
QZAB Board
Approval
7 May,
2009
21st Century
Learning
Academy
Aug, 6, 7, 8,
2009
Current
21 C Initiatives from “TRUSD inception – current“
Principal PLC
10 Dec
9. Report Card
• Brian Briggs
~ Coordinator, Educational Technology
• Vickie Plefka
~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Frontier and
Woodridge
• Rob Meyers
~ Teacher, Garden Valley School
10. • 2008 : Create Unified Report Card
• 2009 : Integrate 21st CL Skills into the Report Card
• 2010 : Refine the Skills to Eight Essential Skills
442
Teachers
Trained
15,564
Students
Impacted
11. • 2010 : Self Direction & Collaboration
• 2011 : Higher Order Thinking Skills & Social Skills
• 2012 : Technology Literacy & Creative Thinking
• 2013 : Cultural Literacy & Information Literacy
13. teacher A teacher B
We do need to
teach 21st
Century Skills!
Oh yes, I guess
that is
important!
21st Century Skills at Garden Valley:
A Teacher Perspective
14. There was a problem!
We had no common language.
19. Purpose: To provide a hands-on, relevant
professional learning opportunity for Twin
Rivers principals that will build their
knowledge base around 21st Century
Learning and increase their ability to
both model and support the
development of 21st Century Learning
as a core element of instructional
design and delivery.
Principal Professional Learning
Communities (PLCs)
20. Professional Development
Components:
• Examining 21st century learning and related
research
• Best practices at model schools
• Investigating technology applications for the
classroom
• Site walk-through visits and Metiri baseline
report
23. Pilot Program
• Michael Reed
~ Principal, Regency Park
• Annette Weiskircher
~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park
• Teresa Rowan
~Elementary Teacher, Frontier
24. 21st Century Pilot Schools
Across Twin Rivers Unified School District
• Frontier Elementary
School
• Regency Park
Elementary School
• Harmon Johnson
Elementary School
• Kohler Elementary
School
Video
Project
Professional
Learning
Community
21st Century
Skills
Building Capacity District-wide
25. Intensive Professional Development for Pilot Schools
Leadership Training for PLC Principals
21st Century Skills Training for all teachers
Strategic Professional
Development Approach
26. • Professional Development: Teacher
Librarians delivered at all elementary sites
21st Century Learning:
Professional Development
• Analysis of 21st Century Skills
• Skill Rubrics
27. • Building and Assessing 21st Century Projects
Authentic Learning
• Student Engagement Ratings
• Integrated Project Templates
28. Project Based Learning
at Regency Park
Annette Weiskircher
~ Elementary Teacher Librarian, Regency Park
32. Overview
• What do the 21st Century
skills look like?
– How are they
integrated and applied
within our curriculum
and content standards?
• Professional Development uncovers “hole”
33. Uncovered
• Search near and wide
• Criteria
– Professional in nature
– Clearly communicates what the skill is
– How it looks in the classroom
– Teaches specific techniques for
integration
– Teaches specific strategies for student
concept attainment and application
34. Goal
• Develop one 10-12 minute video for each of
the eight skills
– Classroom vignettes
– Demonstrations
– Interviews
• Advance learning goals and district vision
36. 21st Century Skills in Action
• Collaboration
– TRUSD and Site Teachers
– Site Teachers and Students
• Technology
– Student Engagement
– Academic Achievement
37. “I made an account for goanimate
and made a slideshow for how the
earth and the moon were made.”
-Rosemary Benson, NJHS 7th Grader, email to Ms. Ramsay
38. • When we live – and educate – in the
service of our values…
• When our values include “To inspire each
student to extraordinary achievement every
day! “…
• Students have increased opportunities…
