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The City as Your Campus: A How-to Guide Adam Nye, Assistant Head for Educational Strategy Amanda Welsh, Director of Middle School and Dean of Faculty Unpacking City as Our Campus A research project in collaboration with Learning Research and

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The City as Your Campus: A How-to Guide

Adam Nye, Assistant Head for Educational Strategy Amanda Welsh, Director of Middle School and Dean of Faculty

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Unpacking City as Our Campus

A research project in collaboration with Learning Research and Development Center at University of Pittsburgh.

  • 1. What are the core components of the City as Our Campus model

and what resources are needed to enact the model?

  • 2. What are the core programmatic values and implementation

qualities that guide the model?

  • 3. What is the value-added for community-based learning?
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Sign up for resources!

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What is community-based learning?

  • Authentic application of classroom learning to address

“real world” problems

  • Incorporates the community and its resources as a part of the

educational experience to enhance student learning

  • Utilization of learning pathways to connect different learning

environments together

  • Mutually beneficial relationships with the community to promote

positive change

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Introductions How comfortable are you using community- based learning?

Not at all Moderately Very

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City as Our CampusSM

An initiative integrated in our core academic curriculum that engages, utilizes, and studies the community to provide experiential learning opportunities for students and teachers.

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Winchester Thurston School actively engages each student in a challenging and inspiring learning process that develops the mind, motivates the passion to achieve, and cultivates the character to serve.

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“Think also

  • f the comforts

and the rights

  • f others.”

Miss Mitchell, Founder

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How does community-based learning align with your school’s mission?

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Moment Expedition Project Unit Year-Long Study Course Residency

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Gain exposure to our city to understand its culture and history.

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Interact with community members to understand diverse viewpoints and stories.

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Equip students with new skills and knowledge through authentic learning experiences.

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Provide teachers with a co-educator model that

  • pens possibilities and

expands our thinking.

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Partner with the community to become informed, engaged, and active citizens.

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What community-based learning experiences are you doing at your school?

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Formative Development

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Growth Mindset

“...the idea is not to only make a growth- mindset plan, but also to visualize, in a concrete way, how you’re going to carry it

  • ut.”
  • Carol Dweck, Mindset
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Components of Faculty Formative Development

  • Goal Setting
  • Peer Observation
  • Critical Friends Groups
  • Parent/Student Feedback Surveys
  • External Professional Development Opportunities
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Supporting Community-based Learning

  • WT Teach Newsletter
  • Faculty-led Workshops
  • Focused Goal Setting
  • Affinity Grouping
  • Experiential PD
  • External Opportunities
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90% of teachers all grade levels 100+ partners

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What conditions exist at your school to support community-based learning? What’s missing?

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Value-added by Community-based Learning

Student Benefits

  • Relevance of Content

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Explores content within authentic settings and problems, process makes it relevant

  • Mastery of Content

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Through this authentic application of content, students attain a mastery of the content

Teacher Benefits

  • Adds Joy and Excitement

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Teachers/students are more engaged in experiences that are authentic and meaningful

  • Extends Resource Pool

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Shifts role of teacher to be facilitators and learning partners with students

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Broadens and deepens understanding of their knowledge for future implementations

School Benefits

  • Provides differentiation to increase desirability and uniqueness
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June 24-25, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA

Featuring

  • Best practices, workshops, toolkits
  • Panel of accomplished practitioners on

the future of teaching and learning

  • Field work and workshops with WT

Faculty and Students Who: Educators and administrators (bring your team!) interested in building a community- based learning initiative Register: winchesterthurston.org/colearn

Early bird ends on April 30, 2019 Group discounts available

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Unpacking City as Our Campus

A collaboration with Learning Research and Development Center at University of Pittsburgh

Phase 2

  • 1. What is the perceived impact of City as Our Campus on

student learning, development, and behaviors?

  • 2. How do stakeholder groups understand and to what extent

do they value the City as Our Campus experiences for WT students?

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Next Steps

3 champion teachers 2 existing partners 1 action item when you return

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questions?

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Contact Us

Adam Nye nyea@winchesterthurston.org Amanda Welsh welsha@winchesterthurston.org