Tuesday, July 17 [Day 7]

What can we learn from student work?


9:00 - 9:10

Reaction sheets from day 6


9:10 - 9:25

Morning Reflections: Day 6 Reading Key Takeaways


9:25 - 11:00

Emily Plummer: Student Journalism and the Philly School Media Network


11:00 - 12:00

Journal Groups


12:00 - 1:00

Lunch


1:00 - 2:15

Lynne Strieb: Descriptive Review of Student Work


2:15 - 3:00

Curating, Planning, and Reflecting: Looking Ahead to the Fall


3:00 - 3:30

Reflections and Wrap-up

  1. Complete reaction sheet
  2. Consider posting reflections to TPS Teachers Network
  3. Readings for Day 8
      • [**Switch] Brown (2005)
      • Cummins, Chow, & Schecter, (2006)
      • Teaching for Black Lives
        • "Restorative Justice: What it is and is not" (pp. 272-276)

Goals

  • Consider how students can engage in writing for public audiences by exploring example work from Philly School Media Network
  • Use descriptive review processes to examine teacher and student work, supporting each other to improve and enhance lessons, prompts for writing, assignments, and assessments
  • Demonstrate how primary sources can support at least one teaching strategy (for example, literacy, inquiry-based learning, historical thinking, etc.)
  • Create a primary source-based activity that helps students engage in learning, develop critical thinking skills and construct knowledge

Readings

  • Breakstone, J., Wineburg, S., & Smith, M. (2015). Formative assessment using Library of Congress documents. Social Education, 79(4), 178-182.
  • Pahl, K. H., & Rowsell, J. (2011). Artifactual critical literacy: A new perspective for literacy education. Berkeley Review of Education, 2(2), 129-151.
  • Carini, P. F. (2000). A letter to parents and teachers on some ways of looking at and reflecting on children. In M. Himley, P. Carini, & Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research (Eds.), From another angle: Children's strengths and school standards: The Prospect Center's descriptive review of the child (pp. 56-64). New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Carini, P. F. (2007, March). The descriptive review of works. North Bennington, VT: The Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research.
  • Carini, P. F. (2008). Descriptive review of children’s works: Guidelines for describing written works. Adapted from guidelines for Prospect Fall Conference, 2008.