Challenge Teams

Big Idea: Authentic and Meaningful Assessment

Essential Question: How can assessment practices and results be authentic and meaningful for multiple stakeholders?

Challenge: implement an authentic and meaningful assessment system

Big Idea: Community Engagement in Education

Essential Question: How do we engage and inform/illustrate our community stakeholders about the impact of education?

Challenge: Demonstrate how education improves our local community.

Big Idea: Making With a Purpose

Essential Question: How do we connect the school and community through making?

Challenge: Create authentic connections between schools and community through purposeful making.

Big Idea: Technology Integration in the Classroom

Essential Question: How can we increase experiential and personalized learning through the use of technology?

Challenge: Increase experiential and personalized learning through the innovative use of technology!

Big Idea: STEAM

Essential Question: How can we challenge learners to learn about themselves and our community?

Challenge: Challenge learners to learn about themselves and our community.

Big Idea: Authentic Community Connections

Essential Question: How can our students identify and solve problems within our community?

Challenge: Create a framework to guide learners through the process of identifying and solving problems within our community.

Big Idea: Computational Thinking

Essential Question: How do we build and sustain a district-wide Computational Thinking culture?

Challenge: Build and sustain a district-wide Computational Thinking culture.

Big Idea: Future Ready skills.

Essential Question: How can we transform teaching to prepare students to drive their own learning?

Challenge: Develop strategies to evolve teaching with Future Ready approaches.

Big Idea: Challenge-based Learning

Essential Question(s): How can we engage our teachers with Challenge-based Learning?

How can we shift teacher mindsets to embrace innovative teaching practices?

Challenge: Create a culture of a growth mindset!

Big Idea: The Global Goals

Essential Question: How might we provoke interest in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?

Challenge: Provoke interest in the UNSDGs

Big Idea: School Environment

Essential Question: How do we positively impact relationships between school stakeholders?

Challenge: Positively impact relationships between school stakeholders!

Big Idea: Authentic Learning

Essential Question: How do we create authentic learning environments to impact personal growth?

Challenge: Create authentic learning environments that impact personal growth!

Big Idea: Teacher Supports

Essential Question: How can we effectively support learners to give agency, empowerment, and ensure wellness?

Challenge: Empower Courageous Learners

Big Idea: VR XR StoryTelling

Essential Question: In what ways can we design XR/VR and help learners tell powerful stories?

Challenge: Create an immersive, engaging, powerful and personal XR experience.

Big Idea: What is Digital Citizenship

Essential Question: What does implementation of a Digital Citizenship initiative look like for D204?

Challenge: implement Digital Citizenship in D204?

Big Idea: Equity Gap

Essential Question: What if... All of our students are prepared to engage in challenging and rigorous learning opportunities?

Challenge: Become expert designers of learning

Big Idea: Challenge-Based Learning in Rural Communities

Essential Question: How might we connect rural schools and students with their communities to solve local challenges?

Challenge: Connect rural students and schools with their communities to solve local challenges!

Big Idea: Social & Emotional Learning

Essential Question: How do we equip educators to identify and support the S&E needs of students that provides equity for all?

Challenge: Equip educators to support the S&E needs of students

Big Idea: Flexible Instruction (online learning)

Essential Question: How can we incorporate flexible learning days into our school calendar effectively?

Challenge: Incorporate flexible instruction successfully into the 2020-2021 school year!

Big Idea: Adult learning

Essential Question: How do we change the mindset of ALL stakeholders to recognize that the acquisition of skills leads to sustainable careers?

Challenge: Change the mindset of ALL stakeholders to recognize that the acquisition of skills leads to sustainable careers

Big Idea: Computational Thinking Competencies

Essential Question: How can we align CT competencies to measurable outcomes?

Challenge: Implement an adaptable and measurable framework for CT across K-12.

Big Idea: Challenge Based Learning

Essential Question: How do we engage students in CBL while attending to curriculum standards?

Challenge: Engage students in CBL while addressing curriculum standards.

Big Idea: Making With a Purpose

Essential Questions: How do we adress community needs through service learning?

Challenge: Addressing community needs through service learning!

Big Idea: Creative Approaches to Standards

Essential Question: How do we use PBL to infuse creativity into our approach to standards?

Challenge: Design Authentic Learning Opportunities

Big Idea: Micro-Credentials and Online Courses

Essential Question: How can social justice-focused skills acquired in my online class be translated in to micro-credentials and be used in their LinkedIn profile?

Challenge: Create a learner micro-credential ecosystem for students taking my online Ethnic Studies courses.

Big Idea: Empower Learning

Essential Question: How will learners become empowered to pursue their passions, interests, and curiosities so that their demonstrations of learning are authentic and meaningful?

Challenge: Create a culture of student empowerment.