Our Purpose & Plan

What are our goals?

  1. Make the D11 Graduate Profile clearly teachable, learnable, and measurable in the classroom K-12

  2. Design an aligned* Demonstration of College & Career Readiness for 12th grade graduation

How will we know we've reached them?

By Spring 2021 we will have created, tested and revised a basic mini-handbook that communicates:

  1. An aligned* learning progression of interdisciplinary performance outcomes, to be used across disciplines and grade levels K-12

  2. Single point rubrics K-12 to measure those performance outcomes

  3. Sample performance assessments, learning experiences, and student work from D11 teachers and students from various content areas and grade levels

  4. Expectations for 12th grade Demonstration of College & Career Readiness

*Aligned to the D11 Graduate Profile

How will we get there?

Virtual Workshops

Paving the Learning Journey (April-May 2020)

Four 3-hour workshops; +additional options

  • The design team will collaborate to create a prototype of measurable performance outcomes aligned to the D11 Graduate Profile, and adopt an assessment tool to pilot the outcomes in the classroom (e.g. “Single-Point Rubric”)

  • Handbook parts 1-2

Agendas & Slides

The following breaks down the remaining stages of this project into four areas, and offers options for teachers and other educators to participate and contribute in different ways.

Design & Iterate

May-June 2020

Learner Progression (K-12)

  • OPTION 1. Respond to the the "sacrificial draft" learning progression prototype. Discuss and make a series of key team decisions that will guide the next round of revisions before outcomes are piloted in classrooms. One 3-hour workshop.

  • OPTION 2. After the above workshop and revisions, take a developmental lens to the learner progression and leave comments throughout that will push the work toward rigorous and developmentally appropriate 2nd, 5th, 8th, and/or 10th grade outcomes. One 30-minute 1:1, and 1 hour on-your-own self-paced.

  • Complete prototype of handbook parts 1-2

Culminating Assessment (12)

2 hours on-your-own self-paced; One 3-hour workshop

  • This should be a consistent team making a 6-hour commitment.

  • Deeply engage with a number of resources that represent several different kinds of culminating assessment, and reflect on your own experiences with authentic demonstrations of college and career readiness. On-your-own and self-paced.

  • Using the learner progression prototype, collaborate to design and iterate on a basic set of outcomes and expectations for a D11 culminating demonstration of college and career readiness. One 3-hour workshop and a possible shorter follow-up.

  • Complete prototype of handbook part 4

Pilot, Reflect & Revise - proposal

Learner Progression (K-12)

Four 3-hour workshops; One hour-long 1:1 coaching call: June - November 2021

  • This should be a team of teachers making a commitment to participating in two 4-hour workshops this summer, and two 3-hour workshops during the Fall semester, as well as piloting the learner progression outcomes in your classroom, with one support call as part of that. These workshops will have pre-reading, collaboration and design time "built in"; you will not have homework, and in the summer sessions you will do some unit design and create things that are usable for the courses you are teaching in the fall.

  • Summer: Design high quality performance assessments aligned to the learner progression and plan the learning journey for students; one round of feedback with a coach before implementation

  • Fall: Teach to and pilot the aligned performance assessments in different content areas and grade levels; meet once to analyze student work, and once to reflect, revise and share your work, and suggest revisions to the learner progression

  • Handbook part 3

Culminating Assessment (12)

~Four 3-hour workshops

  • Spring semester, 2021

  • Pilot, Reflect, Revise: Details TBD

  • Revise handbook parts 1-4