How can we creature a building-wide culture at our school that encourages both students and teachers to embrace and take ownership in defense of learning to showcase a student's educational journey?
Develop a building-wide culture where defenses and elevate badges work seamlessly
Expand upon what we are already doing and take it to another level
Teacher and student buy-in
By the end of each school year 25% more students will feel genuine ownership of the skills they will take out into the world to be intrinsically motivated to be successful.
Building-wide implementation teaching of habits (POG)
Interventions
Advisory and classroom discussion of STEAM (POG) Habits.
Advisory and classroom implementation of STEAM (POG) Habits.
Project rubrics/reflection based on STEAM (POG) Habits, evidence to support learning of habits through project completion.
Interventions
Student identification of skills needed to learn.
Student identification of ownership of knowing skills.
Student reflection of individual empowerment based on skills.
Implementing Defense Presentation (Portfolio/POG)
Classroom/Advisory Interventions
Interventions
By December 2023 100% of sophomores and juniors will successfully defend 4 of the 6 STEAM Habits based on the written rubric (Portrait of a Graduate attributes). Science students in my individual classes will defend 2 of the habits based on their science projects.
By May 2024 100% of freshmen and seniors students will successfully defend 2 of the 6 STEAM Habits based on the written rubric (Portrait of a Graduate attributes).