Envisioning Multicultural Schools Week 13
Assignment due Tuesday, May 16, by 4 pm
| Class Opener: What is Innovative Teaching for Academic Success? |
The Algebra Project
- uses multiple modes of learning
- starts with students’ real world experiences and prior knowledge CULTURALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION
- features MISTAKES as ways of learning and students teaching each other
The Algebra Project was created in 1982 w/four students in one Cambridge, MA. class by Dr. Robert Moses.
This is an old video. Be patient viewing it. Analyze what students do to learn and to like mathematics!
VIEW
The Algebra Project
1. What are the multiple modes of learning students engage in as they are learning algebra and teaching others what they've learned?
Multiple Modes of Learning
Bodily-Kinesthetic
moving, dancing, playing sports, acting, building, constructing, fixing things,
seeks activities where movement and coordination influence learning
Interpersonal (think interactions)
perceives and responds empathetically and sympathetically
is socially aware, utilizes leadership behaviors, is inclusive of others
participates in groups and facilitates communication
Verbal-Linguistic enjoys words and is interested in the origins of words
is curious about acquiring vocabulary and learning other languages
reads, writes, debates, argues, revises and critiques
Logical-Mathematical
connects different ideas to each other to understand concepts, solve puzzles, revise, try again, redesign
Naturalistic
learns, plays or works in and enjoys being outdoors
recognizes both differences and similarities in plants, animals, science, weather, cycles in nature
is consciously aware of natural patterns-plant growth, seasons, day+night and changes in these
Intra-personal
self-directs own learning/ sets personal goals and works to achieve them
thinks or perceives intuitively or reflectively, reflects in order change behaviors or responses
Visual Spatial
recognizes natural and architectural shapes and patterns, sizes and scale, distances
utilizes space and concepts of math and physics while watching or playing sports or dancing
designs, draws, paints, crafts, makes comics/ videos/ animations
learns from pictures, photos, maps, drawings, graphs and play with blocks
Musical-Rhythmic
actively listens and recognizes different tones, rhythms, cadences and voices
sings, broadcasts, acts and creates music, mashes melodies and beats
activities use rhythm or create rhythm such as weaving, dance
2. How is the combination of these multiple modes assisting students' learning?
3. With students in class helping to teach other students, analyze using how this strategy can influence three things:
- growth mindsets
- students' self-confidence
- choices of future careers
Big Idea Close: What are the Learning Outcomes from Self-Tutoring and Tutoring Others?
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Create/design a reflection of your learning outcomes from self-tutoring and tutoring others
using one or more of these choices or something else you design, not an essay or a written synopsis.
Canva posters
Frayer models
Slide deck or multiple boards in Google Jamboards
Comics
Video or Scratch presentation
The reflection will answer these questions:
4. How did each of the four big ideas CONTRIBUTE TO your UNDERSTANDING about learning during self-tutoring and tutoring others?
5. What is one thing you wish you had known sooner in your own education? Why?
1. Multiple Modes of Learning
2. MISTAKES build growth mindsets, increase self-confidence, gain success
3. Montessori's Principles
Point of Interest something draws the interest of the learner to an experience
Self Correcting Feedback offers ways of self-learning
Continuous Learning practicing an experience brings new knowledge, skills, understanding
4. Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher and Lower Order Thinking Skills
Briefly answer, please:
Self-tutoring
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What did you choose to learn for your self tutoring?
What is the total of hours you invested in your learning?
What resources did you use?
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Tutoring Others
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What topics or skills did you tutor?
How many hours did you tutor others?
What resources did you use?
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NOT PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT WORKSHOP RESOURCES
Envisioning Multicultural Schools
| Class Opener: Introducing Innovative Schools--Springboards for Poor Students |
To address the achievement gaps that persist in American schools today, those created by redlining policies and laws set in place by U.S. lawmakers, this week we meet determined people remaking schooling by designing learning achievement for students who do not have the same resources as wealthy communities provide.
These schools serve poor communities in rural places and in cities.
The schools' designs meet the students' needs--gaining an education that springboards them to jobs and professions.
Viewing and hearing about these schools, create a poster showing which of these features are included in each one:
- multiple modes of learning--how many of the multiple modes are incorporated into the ways students learn?
- Montessori's Principles--Point of interest/ Self-correcting/ Learn more with each experience--how are these evident in the school?
- growth mindsets--are these shown by the students? Is success for all expected by the teachers? What evidence of these do you see?
Harlem Grown: Community Gardening Across the Street from the School
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/black-history-month-2022/2022/02/22/harlem-grown-transforms-kids--lives-through-urban-gardening#
https://abc30.com/education/encouraging-kids-to-start-planning-a-career-pathway/94579/
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01:54-02:40
Monument Valley High School (Navajo ReservationVeterinary Program (Arizona) https://www.pbs.org/video/hands-on-veterinary-program-enriches-navajo-students-1492
VIDEO 00:00-01:55
03:09-04:20
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141584947/in-miami-school-aims-for-bi-literate-education
AUDIO 00:05-01:53
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Brag-About-Your-School-Coral-Way-K-8-Offers-Bilingual-Certainty-463486303.html
VIDEO 00:20-1:53
New York Harbor School (New York City)
You Should Come to the Harbor School
VIDEO 00:00-4:26
Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School
AUDIO or transcript tells the history of how the school came to be.
Short parts of this video show what has occurred for Louis and for Eric, both children with big dreams at age 7.
One child is poor, one is wealthy, but their determination to achieve their goals supported and propelled each of them in their different circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g
Adam Ruins Everything History of the Suburbs 6:19
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/given-internet-access-can-kids-really-learn-anything-by-themselves
Sugata Mitra in Harlem (Teams tutors need to be reintroduced to this researcher; they have forgotten seeing him in Digital Connections to Learning.)
https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school/transcript?language=en#t-837452
Dave Eggers' Pirate School (After School Writing and Homework Center) where Dave Eggers needs introducing w/ his books, the movie, and McSweeney's Quarterly for context.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/december-01/
Dec. 1, 1955 is the anniversary of Rosa Parks' decision to defy the Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver's order to change her seat.
https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday
Dec. 1, 1940 is the birthday of one of the fathers of modern gaming and this interactive Google Doodle is both a tribute with behind the doodle information AND a way for students to play games AND program their OWN games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQO_RWCOoQ
Behind the doodle is what this video explains-- we see Jerry Lawson explaining what he expects new game developers to do.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140063531/google-doodle-games-jerry-lawson
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1037911107/jerry-lawson-video-game-fairchild-channel-f-black-engineer
Jerry Lawson's son and daughter describe growing up w/an inventive dad and how he helped them become engineers in these two NPR stories.
Algebra Project
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14208/the-algebra-project-bob-moses-gateway-to-equality-for-black-students
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sharecropper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HefIMcBz3wI
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/us#:~:text=%22We%20the%20People%20of%20the,for%20the%20United%20States%20of
Choice Boards made by TEAMS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQ6JIJ38EpA6306M-AeANG3axO5_9WZyhaYRet5vYJ8/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjU-zst6A7CcqsjmzZe40mD52r-yJlPDLWh-1oJuxgM/edit
Schools Created to Meet What Students' Needs for Success in School and in Life
https://abc30.com/education/encouraging-kids-to-start-planning-a-career-pathway/94579/
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01:54-02:40
https://www.pbs.org/video/hands-on-veterinary-program-enriches-navajo-students-1492560691/
00:00-01:55
03:09-04:20
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141584947/in-miami-school-aims-for-bi-literate-education
AUDIO
00:05-01:53
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Brag-About-Your-School-Coral-Way-K-8-Offers-Bilingual-Certainty-463486303.html
VIDEO
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http://www.newyorkharborschool.org/admission.html#watch
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Science Genius Hip Hop Rhymes
https://www.pbs.org/video/songs-for-biology-students-write-hip-hop-to-learn-science-1371676175/
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FULL REPORT:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hands-high-school-veterinary-program-enriching-navajo-students
Race: The Power of an Illusion
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
Women in TECH: 10 Names to Know
https://www.wired.com/story/10-women-science-tech-household-names/
Video included of 5 women engineers describing how the floor is not level.
Relevant Curriculum
Engineering? 3D printing? LEGO!
https://www.wired.com/story/lego-spike-prime/
3 min. video of a model makers' Lego Studio w/article
Additional Resources
What Does a Modern Classroom Look Like--And What Should Educators Leave Behind
Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Bob's Lesson Plan for Last Class
Opener
We are exploring four T"s: Time, Technology, Teachers and TEAMS in today 1/2/3 time and this center is the one about teachers. Our school teams are interviewing site coordinators as potential candidates for a position at their school.
- This is important for schools because it is teachers who make the mission and vision of a school come alive in the way they teach.
- This is important for teacher candidates because when there are multiple applicants for a position, a interviewee must stand out from the competition
- How does one stand out? By highlighting their academic experience, their skills and experiences, their community service, their communication and teamwork skills and their vision of teaching and learning in the classroom
Activity
Schools Interview Candidates
Each candidate receive written feedback from one or two school team members on:
- Your interview impressed us because . . .
- In your next interview, you might do . . .
Close
Key Study on School Climate and how teachers impact that climate through their actions
- The Evidence is In: Happy Schools Boost Student Achievement
http://neatoday.org/2016/12/05/school-climate/
826 Boston/ Afterschool Writing and Publishing Program
Why Can't Our Kids Go to School Together?
Alabama/04/24/16
Some of America's Top Teachers went to Finland. Here is What They Learned.
Innovative Schools - Academic Success
Classroom on the Water from the website
In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comback
New York's Harbor School first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island
PODCAST Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School
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We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14?
Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building?
Is there a class that you look forward to attending?
Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?
Would you have chosen a science school?
Open ABOUT: MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS to learn about the school.
SCHOOL WEBSITE New York Harbor School on Govenors Island
Classroom on the Water from the website
The Urban Assembly: Our Schools
In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comeback
SOLEs: Sugata Mitra's model in Harlem
Lebron James creates the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio
Providence, RI's Pleasant View Elementary School where the Panther Pride chant affirms the beliefs of the vision and work of an unconventional principal leading a thriving school community.
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy whose Creed and school structure set in motion successful learning and future goal attainment for young male teens is one multiculturally diverse model.
Another is Promise Academy in Harlem, where a growth mindset is modeled by all staff and supported by the students and their families.
We saw Emma Lazarus High School, in New York, NY focused exclusively for high school ELL learners to be able to attend college.
We learned about Coral Way Elementary School, in Miami, where teachers lead classes with high demand and high expectations for bilingual students
We reviewed Harvey Mudd College's Engineering, Science, and STEM programs that invite, support, and retain female students in STEM courses and careers.
We have featured other models throughout the semester beginning with Green Energy Biomedical and Engineering Pathways at Edison High School in Fresno, CA.
High Tech High School,San Diego, CA
High Tech High School: About
Moving Urban Schools Forward
Massive underfunding of inner city schools has not occurred because there are no funds to spend, but how those funds are spent.
Dr.Pedro Noguera, professor at UCLA and the Director of the Center for the Study of School Transformation describes how Brockton, MA succeeds w/a population of poor kids.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, North Carolina, winner of last year's prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education, instituted new organizational practices to achieve success for all students in the city schools.
Florida Virtual School
P TEC 6-years of high school
Finland Secret Sauce: Its Teachers discusses how to become a teacher in Finland, a country with some of the highest student achievement results in the world.
Back to School Already? Debate Continues Over Year-Round Benefits discusses the advantages and disadvantages of going to school all year long without a lengthy 10 to 12 week summer break.
Different Incomes - Different Schools
U.S. Schools Reach Majority-Minority Milestone
In Fall 2014, Latino, African American and Asian students will be a majority of students (50.3%) in the nation's public schools.
Click for a table of enrollment projections through 2023 from the Digest of Education Statistics.
Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set the policies that followed throughout the U.S.
School Desegregation Thwarted
How School Funding Works in Massachusetts
Following the Brown v Board of Education legislation, segregation continued to separate communities of Caucasian and African American and Hispanic families through the redlining of neighborhoods.
Digital Learning
North Carolina School Engages Tech Generation With Digital Learning
Burlington High School in Massachusetts receives Apple Distinguished School Award for 2012-2013, one of 87 schools honored nationwide for technology integration.
Poverty
Rich People Actually Don't Create The Jobs-Business Insider
15 Mind Blowing Facts About Inequality In America-Business Insider
Jonathan Kozal has spent 50 years chronicling public education's funding inequities and its resulting lack of success for students in poor schools. His book, Death At An Early Age, 1980, gained national attention, but since its publication, little has changed to address the inequities of public schools.
Read the transcript of the interview or listen to the conversation, whichever you prefer to do.
Jonathan Kozol speaks about kids that survive-inner-cities in a new book, Fire In The Ashes
You can read a preview of Fire in the Ashes at Amazon.
- Hear the podcasts; transcripts are provided but please also hear the people speaking.
Voices of Youth Radio: San Francisco Bay Area Students Find Danger Lurks To and From School
Chicago's Silent Watchmen Guard School Rout
3. As a youngster did you face any of the fears that these San Francisco and Chicago kids face in urban centers going back and forth to school?
Do you think the volunteers standing watch while students walk to and from school ought to be paid for this by federal funds?
Maxim: a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.-Oxford English Dictionary
Everyone is smart . . .
Everyone is a learner . . .
Everyone is a teacher . . .
. . . under favorable conditions.
--Jerome Bruner
psychologist, professor, author
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
--Louis Pasteur,
French chemist, microbiologist, inventor and creator of "pasteurization", maker of modern biology of food purity, medical instrument sterilization, vaccination and our use of antibiotics. It was Pasterur who taught the necessity of hand washing to prevent illness and disease.
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
--Jessamyn West,
American writer
Told by doctors when she was 32 that she would die young from bilateral tuberculosis, West wrote and lived to age 82.
"Everyone is smart who can open the door to non-stupidity."
--Emily Cutting, age 7, in response to Sharon's question years ago, "Emily, who is smart?"
Singer, voice teacher, businesswoman and the person pictured with Alicia Keyes in Sharon's workshop Tuesday.
8. Would you display any of these maxims for students to see and discuss? Why? Is there a different maxim that you would display?
Update 9/27/11: "Ohio Gov. John Kasich, going against the unanimous opinion of the Ohio Parole Board, reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanor charges so that Kelley Williams-Bolar would not have a felony record which could block her hoped-for career in education." Christian Science Monitor: A Weekly Review Of Global News & Ideas, vol. 103/ issue 44
4. Knowing that school is where the door opens for future employment and wealth accumulation, what is your feeling about the situation of the mother in the news report? What do you think her options for her children's schools should be?
Newsletter_November+29_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10d8eab927-e247406aa3-4866430120%;">Poverty ||
Jail Time For Sneaking Kids Into A Better School
Podcast
Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set forth policies that followed throughout the U.S. Reported 11/19/13
5. Identify ALL the different parties responsible for countermanding the decisions that would have guaranteed implementation of the integration effort. How did each influence the outcome?
6. If Detroit's city schools had been allowed to implement the policy of integration by busing what might be the results of that decision during the past 40 years?
Videos by students & teachers
Find Jay Vavra, Amgen National Science Teacher of the Year
Alphabet Soup: The A-Z of Cell Biology
Black Holes: A Children's Book
New Technology High Schools
New Technology High School: About
Videos by students & teachers
I Am What I Learn: Troy Simon
An Amazing Turnaround, Warren, N.C.
KQED's report for Groundbreaking Schools
- What school reform or educational change practices are advocated by each school?
- What elements of the school's design and curriculum do you believe will improve learning for students?
- What might have been very effective for your own learning had you attended each of the schools you visited virtually?
- Would you choose to teach in either school the Harbor School or the school you visited on the webquest? Why or why not?
Sugata Mitra TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
Apples in America in the 1800s/Science Friday
http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/11/26/2013/all-about-apples-some-history-a-recipe-and-recommendations.html?utm_source=Science+Friday+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=e247406aa3-Newsletter_November+29_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10d8eab927-e247406aa3-4866430120%;">Poverty ||
Jail Time For Sneaking Kids Into A Better School
New York's Harbor School first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island
Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School
0:00-3:15
We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14?
Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building?
Is there a class that you look forward to attending?
Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?
Would you have chosen a science school?
Open ABOUT: MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS to learn about the school
2. Do you think that a difference in atmosphere and behavior (less name calling, use of derogatory language and exclusion) might result where a creed is a core part of the learning experience in a school instead of school rules?
Explain your thinking.
A Visit To The Doomsday Vault: Scott Pelley Visits One Of The World's Most Unique Banks
Link to the Video on Vimeo
Link to Resources for History Teachers wiki A Visit to the Doomsday Vault
Revised Reflective Writing about Self-Tutoring.docx
Envisioning Multicultural Schools April .docx
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This next podcast and video and Question is Not part of the assignment questions-- it is a choice for you to do for tutoring hours and for your own knowledge.
If you choose to do this activity, please log 1 hour into your self-tutoring total and answer the questions on the assignment.
This is a true story of a teen in a specific moment of time.
It is his story of determination, bravery and problem solving told in a personal memoir.
- Hear podcast and view the video on the page.
Determined to Reach March of 1963, Teen Used Thumb and Feet
Would you listen to the podcast or view the video or do both with students you teach or tutor to consider the history of civil rights in America? Explain what you would do and why.
What might your opening question to students be--the question that piques curiosity or opens ideas?
After viewing and/or hearing the resources would you ask students to compose their own question that they would suggest as an opener to this experience the next time you use it?
Composing their own questions means they would start at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy at CREATE and go up and down throughout ALL the levels as they write.
Why do you think this might be important to do for their learning?
Would you and they all compose 6 word sentences about race in America as an activity for this experience?
| Workshop 1: Culturally Relevant Curriculum -- Teaching Diverse Histories in School |
Culturally relevant curriculum--made law by the California's FAIR Education Act that requires schools to teach information and facts about LGBTQIA contributors, minority groups and women--makes history inclusive, assists diverse students to achieve academically, not drop out, graduate from high school, and pursue post-secondary education if they choose.
Models of people who look like us, who have similar backgrounds to ours, and who contributed to culture and society are important to see in history.
Choose one of the following wiki pages and sketch note its diverse history information.
- Scroll down the whole page to see all the resources.
- Select three that catch your interest.
- Open and learn from those three information to reveal in your sketch note.
| Closer Big Idea: Growth Mindsets Inspires, Supports and Propels Students Through History and Inclusive Curricula |
Ethnic Studies--finding yourself and your ancestors in a curriculum--interests students and assures them that people related to their cultures and heritages have done remarkable things.
Ethnic Studies offers a model for today's students to see and build confidence in themselves as being able to do remarkable things.
Can Ethnic Studies Education Change Academic Outcomes for Minority Students?
- 1,405 9th Graders in San Francisco
- 27% Latino; 13% White; 36% Asian; 8% African American
- All at risk of dropping out of school
- At the end of the year after studying an ethnic studies curriculum
- Attendance improved
- Students earned more credits
- GPA + 1.4
- Gains in math and science made as well
Read one of the two articles.
- Using information from the article you read, describe how you think ethnic study programs influence a growth mindset in students who do not usually see themselves or their groups represented in history, math, English and science curriculum?
- Choose a genre--poetry, comics, newspaper article, letter, online blog post, song, Instagram post, video, animation-- for your explanation.
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