May 2020

Presentation of Learning Brainstorming

Be creative and resourceful! “This work” refers to Capstone design and piloting, but also Graduate Profile development, shared rubric development, competency-based learning / grading, performance assessment, and any supporting teaching or learning structure at your school.

Recall / Provide Context

• Why did your team join this cohort? What did you want for your students which you thought this cohort could help with?
• What was your original capstone plan of action for this year? Keep it high level, with big picture goals.

We joined because of Mastery Transcript.

To explore what R5’s purpose is within D51.

Solidify and unify what a learner looks like after going through R5.

Our original capstone plan was to develop a graduate profile. We hoped to align it with our new transcript and maybe get started on a draft of a capstone.

We wanted to define what is an R-5 graduate and how can he/she demonstrate growth and learning towards/of this profile?

We began with defining our graduate profile.

We want to use the capstone as a culminating experience for a competency based educational model.

We will use the end of year planning during this phase of remote learning and to pull in other staff.

Reflect on Adaptability

• How did you adapt your original plan in light of the COVID-19 crisis?
• How did you center your student’s needs and strengths when you had to adjust your original plan?
• Optional: How did having done this work help you to prioritize in order to adapt to the new situation?

We didn’t have to adapt except making meetings on Google Meet.

Reduced/eliminated hands on experiences :(

Schoology was already a platform that we were using to deliver materials; this set our students up for success with online learning. Students appreciated less flexible/more predictable assignments in a remote setting as compared to in-class learning. Capstone would be a great avenue for students to succeed in future remote-learning scenarios. We already used a shared Google Drive and would assign weekly tasks that could be done independently, so moving to the video chat platform was not a huge adjustment.

Reflect on Growth

• Where have you felt successful in this work this year? What did you learn?
• What have been the biggest struggles in this work? What did you learn?
• What are your next steps?
• Has anything from this experience taught you a lesson larger than asked for here? About equity, collaboration, assessment design, about learning, about yourself, your team, or something else? Explain.

We learned how to make purple hexagons for the graduate profile (Giff did!).

We struggled aligning all the work our school does so that it points in one direction.

Next Steps:

• Creating a capstone syllabus
• Building community partnerships into our capstones and creating student buy-in using choice and incentivizing with credit.

We learned that assessment design had to consider where we wanted learners to be as functional citizens in society not just highschoolers in a building.?????

Our graduate profile led us to a capstone project which will allow learners to show that they have met the definition of an R-5 graduate. They can celebrate their learning through a passion project. We successfully created a Graduate Profile, Mastery Transcript Framework and worked with all staff to fine tune Grad Profile/Crosswalk Courses and opportunities. Next we need to backward by design our Capstone with rubrics/flow charts and supporting documentation. We need to decide what platform we want to use to organize portfolios and capstones.

January 2020

May 2019

What is your goal for the year?

Have a common graduate profile and process rubric. Collaborate internally to develop our visual and our descriptors for each graduate element/skill/component.