Expose teachers and instructional leaders to key practices for planning around Rigor and Purpose.
Convene a small group of like-minded educators willing to take a deep dive into their curriculum and make changes that improve the overall rigor and purpose of an instructional sequence.
Develop a shared understanding of the role of Looking at Student Work (LaSW) and Listening to Learners (LtL) in creating meaningful change in the curriculum, and also core instructional practice.
Create a space for meaningful peer collaboration and support for educators.
Reflect on changes to individual practice and planning as a result of thinking more deeply about rigor and purpose in your student learning experiences.
Come together as a community to share practices and resources that might inspire/inform another educator.
Determine key practices that you will continue and set a goal for element(s) of IoSQ 3 that you are hoping to work on.
Plan for ways this group can grow and disseminate the work to your colleagues.
Reflect on changes to assessment that increase rigor and purpose for learners and identify key roadblocks in your mindset that might be blocking your work.
Determine the changes needed in a learning sequence based on increasing the rigor and purpose of an assessment (ripple).
Use the Teacher-Facing Storyline Tool to improve the rigor and purpose of an upcoming learning sequence.
Unpack takeaways from executing the Looking at Student Work Protocol and Listening to Learners Tool.
Identify key design components of a Rigorous & Purposeful assessment of learning.
Give and receive feedback to improve the rigor and purpose of an upcoming assessment.
Determine the changes needed in a learning sequence based on increasing the rigor and purpose of an assessment (ripple).
Examine a unit using Springpoint IoSQ 3: Rigorous and Purposeful Learning Experiences
Identify core elements of a rigorous and purposeful learning experience.
Review the Looking at Student Work Protocol and Listening to Learners Tool and plan for their use prior to our next session.