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Taking Center Stage - Act II (TCSII)
Getting Everyone Into the ACT!
To Ensure Success and Close the Achievement Gap for All of California’s Middle Grades Students
Presented by
Middle and High School Improvement OfficeCalifornia Department of Education
February/March 2008
These professional development activities weredesigned and developed for TCSII and adapted for today’s
presentation.
Taking Center Stage - Act II
Rob HooverPrincipal, Deer Creek Middle School
Jefferson County School DistrictLittleton, CO
Michael DonhostPrincipal, Lake Bluff Middle School
Lake Bluff School District 65Lake Bluff, IL
Special thanks to the ACSA Middle Grades Council for making the connection!
Purpose of today’s session
In this interactive session, you will “Get into the Act” through “constructivist” activities that build consensus for change.
Constructivism Constructivism allows the learner to create
meaning based on exploration, interaction, and discovery.
From experience, we know that humans understand things better when they have the opportunity to explore and construct their own understanding.
“Others can give us information, we can find information in books, and we can get information from the media, but as important as information is . . receiving it, getting it, and hearing it does not necessarily equal learning.”
--Marlow and Page, Creating and Sustaining the Constructivist Classroom
Taking Center Stage—Act II
Closing the Achievement Gaprequires consensus for change based on research and best practices.
Taking Center Stage—Act II
In the first activity, we are going to design our ideal
middle grades school.
• Form into table groups of 6-8 people.
• Select a recorder and a timekeeper.
Constructing Change – A School Design Game
Each table should have a set of game cards and a
tally sheet.
There are three (3) color/pattern game cards
(descriptors) per topic.
There are twelve (12) topics – 36 game cards to
each table group.
One tally sheet for each table group.
Constructing Change – A School Design Game
Discuss the three (3) descriptors for each topic.
Choose the description that would best fit your Ideal School.
Constructing Change – A School Design Game
On your table-group Tally sheet, the recorder indicates which descriptor your group agrees on as the best for each topic.
You will have 15 minutes for the entire activity.
Click here to go to Module 1.
Groups report on their consensus for each topic
Group discussion
Leader toggles to Excel “Graph of Group Data Results”
Outcomes of the School Design Game
Generates discussion around issues
Establishes a common vocabulary
Focuses on What Should Be rather
than What Is
Uses for the School Design Game Tally
Shows current views within the group around these topics
Shows level of consensus across group
Highlights areas for further study Topics with high disagreement Topics with undesirable strong agreement
Focuses staff development needs
Directs school improvement efforts
How do we Get into the Act from here?
Taking Center Stage—Act II
The dynamic Web portal contains:
Hyperlinked research-based content
Vignettes of school practices
Connections to middle grades organizations
Related links and more
BINGO Research Game!
Your table group is your team.
In your envelope you will find:
A BINGO card Red and green playing chips One red folder and one green folder
BINGO Research Game!
A statement will be displayed on the screen
Each group has 30 seconds to decide whether the statement is: TRUE – supported by a body of
research FALSE – contrary to research
BINGO Research Game!
At the signal, each group holds up the colored sheet of paper that represents their decision:
TRUE FALSE A correct answer wins a game chip on
the BINGO board in the indicated space
The first group to get BINGO wins!
READY???
You have your group BINGO card…
You have a person to hold up a RED card when the answer is FALSE…
You have a person to hold up a GREEN card when the answer is true…
GO!
And the winner is . . .
Other Uses…
Parent Education Increase understanding of best practice, educational
philosophy, or instructional strategies Build support for change
New Teacher Induction Orientation with existing programs & practices Identify and develop goals for professional growth
Team Building Encourage the sharing of philosophies & practices Identify areas of agreement/disagreement Develop and prioritize team goals
TCSII footnotes link to studies
Getting All Stakeholders Into
the Act
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Your table group will act as your school’s leadership team
You will be developing a plan to introduce stakeholders (teachers, parents, school board members, business partners, community partners, etc.) to
Taking Center Stage - Act II
In your packet, you have one planning sheet and a set of descriptors of potential presentations and activities
From these descriptors, select two (2) hours of presentations that you would use to introduce TCSII to stakeholders
Explain why you selected the activities and for which stakeholder group
Indicate your choices on the planning sheet
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
What is your plan?
How will you get everyone into the Act?
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Would the order of presentations matter?
Did you select different presentations and activities for certain stakeholder groups?
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Introductory Activities
Guest Lecturer
Training Video
Group Reading
TCSII Jigsaw
Book Study KWL
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Building understanding through interaction
TCSII IntroQuest
TCSII Inventory
TCSII Gallery
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
Constructing change through consensus
Provocative Prompts
TCSII Case Studies
TCSII Bingo
School Design Game
Getting All Stakeholders into the Act
CD Road Show Training: The professional learning modules include:
Sneak Peek Presentation
Module #1 – Setting the Stage
Module #2 – Backstage Pass
Module #3 – Meet the Recommendations Module #4 – Dress Rehearsal: Explore the Possibilities
Quotes on Change
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.“
Anon.
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The
greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.“Henry Ford
“The world will not change until we do.”Jim Wallace
Quotes on Change
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.“
Abraham Lincoln
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.“
Albert Einstein
“There can be change without progress, but not progress without change.”
Anon
Taking Center Stage—Act II
Visit the TCSII Portal and explore the possibilities . . .
http://pubs.cde.ca.gov/TCSII/