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The Public Schools of PetoskeyPart ILife-Ready Students: Read, View, & DiscussPLC/PD Day October 7th, 2013Please ask a PLC volunteer to write short notes from your discussion on the separate question sheet and give it to your PLC administrator and Lynn. Thanks!

Question #1. (Brainstorm)In an era of national & state standards and benchmarks, what do our students need in order to become life-ready citizens?

School Improvement Linked to PLC/PD Days & Other PDStandards & Curriculum (MAISA, CCSS, NGSS, C3)Student Data Analysis & ActionsResearch-Based, Best Instructional PracticesCollege, Career, and Life-Ready Students

Life-Ready Foundations

Todays DiscussionGRITAngela Lee Duckworth: What is Grit?

As a group, please enlarge the screen and view: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365008073/ orhttp://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/26/angela-duckworth-grit/

Promoting Grit, Tenacity & Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century U.S. Dept. of Education (February 2013) If you would like to view the full report, you can find it at: http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/files/2013/02/OET-Draft-Grit-Report-2-17-13.pdf

The Gist Provide opportunities for worthy, challenging goals.Honor effort & teach effort control as a process.Support a growth mindset & a belief in capacity building.Allow good failures and use them as challenges to improve.

Resilience is more influenced by how a teacher teaches than what a teacher teaches. (S. Truebridge & B. Benard)

Question #2.How do/will we help our students build or find their own personal GRIT?Question #3.How will each of us continue to build our own GRIT & support one another in the process?

Education in the 21st Century is Not for the Faint-Hearted! The Public Schools of PetoskeyPart IIThe Document Camera in My Classroom:View & Discuss

PLC/PD Day October 7th, 2013ContinuesThe Last Online Event Today1. Go to http://www.petoskeyschools.org/phone/pd/doccamhelp.pdf.2. Choose Record a Lesson (or another of your PLCs choice).3. View the discuss the value it can/does bring to the classroom.

Question #4.How can/will we use this feature in the near future?