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.