Welcome to Session 4: Empowering Student Voice

Hello to each cluster!

OrangeSun West

Rosetown, SK

YellowSun West

Rosetown, SK

PinkSt. Anthony

Peterborough, ON

GreenEvergreen School

Division Gimli, MB

BlueSun West

Davidson SchoolRosetown, SK

RedSt. Alphonsus

Peterborough, ON

PurpleSt. Francis of

AssisiPeterborough, ON

BrownSeven Oaks

Winnipeg, MB

GreySimcoe County,

ON

WhiteWaterloo, ON

Today’s Agenda

● Guest Speaker: Nobu Chern-

Warwick

● Peer sharing: what have you

been up to?

● Scaling up student voice

projects

● Discussion of Student Voice

Showcase - June 2015

Guest Speaker: Nobu Chern-Warwick

Student Advocacy Coordinator, TakingITGlobal

Founder and Executive Director of GenZ Youth Solutions, an organization with a mandate to create substantial advocacy and advisory opportunities for secondary students, within businesses, charities and other societal entities.

What have you been up to?

“Finding Our Voice” Janet Coffey-Olsen, Independent Education Program, Sunwest School DivisionRosetown, Saskatchewan

What have you been up to?

Earth Day Assembly Terri WillardSeven Oaks School Division, Winnipeg, Manitoba

What have you been up to?

“What would your ideal ISU look like?” Carolyn Ritchie,Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario

Peer sharing: Questions?

Within your cluster, take a few minutes think of a question you would like to ask your student voice colleagues about your project. Are you looking for a resource? Do you have a challenge you would like input on? Do you want some feedback on an idea?

Once you have a question, “raise your hand” and we will call on to you take the mic.

Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/49968232@N00/6933295441/Leo Reynolds

How can we celebrate and scale our student voice projects?

Increasing Project Visibility: Whiteboard ActivityOn the whiteboard, share your ideas of how to celebrate and scale our student voice projects by answering the question:

How can we support students to make their project visible within our school and wider community?

How might students evolve the project to have a long-term impact?

Chris Dede: 5 Dimensional Model for Scaling Up

● Depth: What is the cause of its effectiveness? What aspects are crucial and which parts can be altered without reducing impact? Improving depth can make a project more desirable to others by increasing its power.

● Sustainability: Can the project be replicated next year in your classroom? Other classrooms? Other Schools? Can others adapt the project to the own learning environments?

● Spread: Does it require a lot of resources? Is it easy to replicate with existing resources?

● Shift: Does it allow others to claim ownership over their own versions of the project?

● Evolution: Projects evolve - how will you evaluate the changes and see what is/not working?

Adapted from: http://www.edutopia.org/scale-processes-replication-strategy

Student Voice Framework

Source from: http://www.edutopia.org/scale-processes-replication-strategy

Source: http://studentvoicei.org/activate/

TIG Guide to Action

Source: tigurl.org/tiggta

Project Page Demonstrationpdclass.tiged.org/sv2015/

projects

Student Voice National Showcase

11:00-11:05am (EST) Audio check-in with each school

11:05-11:10am (EST) Opening remarks and course highlights

11:10-11:50am (EST) Student presentations and Q & A

11:50-12:00pm (EST) Closing remarks

Objective: students share their student voice project learning journey Thurs, Jun. 411:00-12:00pm (Ont)10:00-11:00am (Man)9:00-10:00am (Sask)

*Registration link to be sent shortly

Student Voice National Showcase

● Presentations can be shared in the form of a powerpoint, video, a

written piece, or may be orally recounted. Aim for 3-5 minutes.

● Presentation guiding questions:

What did your student voice project/experience try to

address?

What impact did your student voice project/experience have

in your classroom? In your school? On the relationships

between students, and students and teachers?

What was the best part of the journey?

Will the project/experience continue next year?

Why is student voice is important?

Tasks to complete before the Showcase

● Prepare

presentation for

showcase

● Prepare and

submit final

project page

● Submit a short

personal

reflection

(optional)

Tech Tools for Capturing the Learning Process

Top 10 Tech Tools for Pedagogical Documentation

Digital Images

Video & Animation

Mind Mapping

Note Capture

Audio Recording

Blogging

Social Media

Comic Strip

Wiki & Online Docs

Presentation & Polling

FlickrGlobal Gallery

YouTubeVimeoAdobeVoice

EvernotePadlet

BloggerTumblrTIGweb

BitStripsComic Life

SlideShareKahootPiktochart

PoppletMindMeisterSMART Ideas

VoiceThreadAudacity

TwitterFacebook

WikispacesGoogle DocsWriteboard

Cluster Activity

1) Start your project page in the Student Voice virtual classroom. You can do this by clicking on Projects → Add to Projects. This is an evolving page - be sure to update the page as your project progresses. If you are collaborating with another educator, you will only need to create one project page and you can identify in the submission form who you are collaborating with.

2) Complete the student voice post-course survey: fluidsurveys.com/s/stuvoicepost2015

Our learning journey

When given the opportunity to imagine past the regular “instructions” and work together, students can build something inspired and new...they will go above and beyond.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMM387HNQk

Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your participation!