Agenda

June 23, 2014

Todays Primary Outcomes:
-Shared sense o our !ur!ose and "hat "e## $e doing % creating
together as mem$ers o this cohort&
-Shared understanding o the $ig ideas that rame our "or'&
-(dentiying meaningu# a!!#ication o!!ortunities to !ursue)
I. Feedback
Each participant received a personal letter from Bill that
provided specific feedback to the work from Mondays
session.
II. Archeological Dig
Bill asked everyone to recall and write down (without
notes or help) the big ideas and key resources from
Fridays session. fterward we considering how memory
is more like an archeological dig than a file cabinet! we
need to put together (construct) memory from shards "
pieces that we can retrieve and then try to piece
together. #e also considered the importance of students
practicing recalling previous learning on an ongoing
basis$ and the ways we can help learners develop tactics
for encoding e%periences in ways that make them more
easily to &dig up.'
III. Todays Three Big Ideas
Bill provoked the group with three sets of images and
anecdotes. For each set of images and anecdotes$ each
person identified the big idea$ described the big idea$ and
created an image that represented the idea. (hen we
discussed our conceptions and considered implications.
IV. Student Friendly Learning Targets and Scales
#e compared two sets of learning scales (posted below)
and compared them to determine which would work best
for learners. Bill then introduced us to our learning
targets and learning scales for this year)long cohort
e%perience (posted below).
V. Identifying Application pportunities
(he group started these * tasks+
,. -dentify and describe a performance assessment youll
use ne%t year.
.. /escribe the transferable skills that the performance
assessment will assess.
0. /escribe the big idea(s) this performance assessment
will assess.
*. 1ross walk your performance assessment with the
23Es to identify which of the 23Es align4in part or
wholly4with your performance assessment.
VI. !in"Tuning of #erfor$ance Assess$ents
Each person " pairing described their current draft "
responses to the * tasks$ and the group offered 5uick
feedback.
VII. %losing &Dear Bill and A$y'
Each person wrote a letter to Bill and my that answered
these prompts+
,. 6f all the ideas we considered today$ what are the .)0 that
are the most meaningful " useful to you7
.. #hat are a few e%amples of how you plan on applying your
learning with your learners ne%t year7
0. #hat re .)0 of your most pressing 5uestions about the ideas
we considered today7
*. nything else youd like to let Bill or my know related to
this work7
89lease self assess yourself using the doc titled &1ohort .+
:earning (argets and :earning ;cales'$ and please put it in
your folder you submit today.