Synthesize
Throughout this module, you and your team have explored what it means to create learning experiences that are meaningful to students, meet them where they are, and help them build the deep content knowledge and complex skills they’ll need for future success. Here’s a look at how other high school design or redesign teams have grappled with some of these same issues.
Now it’s time for you and your team to step back and reflect.
Step 1 – Summarize Your Work
How will your school approach the core work of teaching and learning? Revisit the XQ Learner Objectives and consider how you will make sure all students engage deeply with challenging content, develop crucial skills and capacities, and build their identities as learners and contributors to the world. Working with your team, summarize your conclusions.
Step 2 – Share Your Vision
Now get ready to share your ideas with others in your school and community.
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Using the XQ Learner Goals, describe the kinds of exciting, engaging, rigorous learning experiences you envision, so your students can grow and attain mastery in these important areas.
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How will you design your school to enable learning experiences like these? What resources and flexibilities will you need?
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Personalized Learning for English LearnersLearn about promising practices in personalized and competency-based education for English language learner (ELL) students.
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3-D Science LearningUniversity of Michigan professor Joseph Krajcik and science teacher Kristin Mayer explain how the Next Generation Science Standards enable three-dimensional learning, or learning by making sense of phenomena and solving problems.
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Study of Deeper LearningAIR researched practices and outcomes in 20 high schools participating in the Deeper Learning Network. Explore the five reports from this ground-breaking study.
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Many ModelsGettingSmart visited eight diverse schools to support the launch of a new “Framework for High-Quality Project-Based Learning.” Read the case studies here.
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Reclaiming Digital FuturesDelve into a curated toolkit of resources that can help educators achieve success in youth-centered digital learning.
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A View from InsideTake a ground-level tour “Inside Mastery-Based High Schools” with this Springpoint report featuring interviews with students, teachers, and leaders.
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