First Day

Day One Schedule:

8:30 - 11:30: Teacher Professional Learning and Maker Co-Planning

1. Intro and Agenda overview (tone-setting and goal-setting)
2. What's your #hashtag?
3. Morning Tools and Activities: What’s the Difference? Make to Learn and Learn to Make

• Learning-by-design: “ How High Can You Make It?” (20-sheet tower build?) to collaboratively design and connect learning with making
• 4/5 A’s Protocol: “Why Maker Ed?” Maker Media/Text Analysis (watch Edutopia/ACPS Maker Video and/or read MakeShop Learning Practices)

4. First Morning Lesson Planning:

• Introduction to Four-Question Planning Routine: “Not by Chance” how to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment through planning for Inspired Innovation maker work
• Making Learning Personal and Meaningful: “Entering the Inspired Innovation Center Doors: How will making add learning value, access, and equity - not more “dumpster projects?” (use identified 7th grade standards to consider planning routine)
  • Curriculum: Introduction to Why Make? What Defines Making and How Making Joins and Crosses Your Curriculum, SEL, and Equity (Real Learning Examples)
  • Instruction: Introduction to Footholds and scaffolds -Teacher leaders will establish foothold activities to start using space, culture, pedagogies, and technologies as a construct of user interface and experience (Consider both Habits of Mind and Learner Maker Practices)
  • Assessment: Introduction to Beyond the Rubric Toolkit - Assessing MakerWork Tower Activity

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch with teachers, students & families

12:00 - 2:00 (MURSD staff will facilitate with assistance from Pam and Ira)

• Make: Hummingbird Exploration Workshop
  • Introduction to Hummingbird
• “How Many Rules?” Space Use Responsibility Norms and Safety Overview

• 2:00 - 2:15: Clean up
• 2:15 - 3:00: Teachers and Facilitators: Reflect, Recap, Reimagine - Exit questions, feedback, planning takeaways

🔨What are you most excited about re: Inspired Innovation program?

🔨What will success look like (in the context of your maker program?

🔨What do you see as the greatest challenges to implementing the program?

🔨What other tools and resources does the Inspired Learning Space need?

🔨What makes this work special? (post it note activity)