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S tudent-Led H eterogeneous L earning C ommunities Next slide: Agenda

2 SHLCs = S tudent-led H eterogenerous L earning C ommunities Agenda 1. Why were SHLCs created? 2. How were SHLCs created? 3. What do SHLCs look like? 4. How do SHLCs work? 5. Prerequisites and Implementation Process 6. Additional Benefits from SHLCs Next slide: question

1. Why were SHLCs created? Next slide: hs quote

“ 4 “Manfre, I know you will make a great math teacher someday, I mean it. And someday you will have a student as you were with me. And then you will understand. Good Luck. Best Wishes. Mr. DeRiso.” Next slide: classroom concerns

5 Addressing 2 classroom concerns: SHLCs came Disengaged Students/Off-Task ○ -2 types of disengaged students from: (high and low) Students lacked communicated reasoning ○ (conceptual understanding of problem solving process) -” Student Showcase ” Next slide: the big problem

6 Schools were made to prepare students for the real world, which in the past, focused on The Big rote knowledge and automation. Problem Next slide: influential people acknowledge problem

Jack Ma - Alibaba 7 Influential People Acknowledging the Problem Sugata Mitra, Ph.D - New Castle University “Does knowing really matter?” Next slide: arne duncan

8 Influential People Acknowledging Arne Duncan - Former U.S. Secretary of Education the Problem “How Schools Work” “We don’t need wrote knowledge anymore: we have the Internet and Wikipedia for that. We need kids who can learn anything and continue to be able to learn anything for the rest of their lives. We need kids who can think, not just recall. We need kids who are comfortable solving problems in a group, working together, supporting and challenging each other, and bringing out the best thinking in each other .” Next slide: the workplace

9 Today’s Workplace Next slide: addressing the big problem

ADDRESSING THE BIG PROBLEM How SHLCs were created. Q: When is there communication and collaboration in a math class? Next slide: we do

11 A: During “I Do” Teacher Students Students the “we do” facilitates facilitate facilitate whole class small group whole class guided guided guided “We practice. practice. practice. Do” “You Do” Next slide: engaged students

12 Tripod Data From 2017-18 report as teacher at Central Middle School Engaged Students! During non-instructional time students preparing presentations Next slide: confidence

13 Student Confidence in Mathematical Communication Next slide: teacher pathways

14 Students see teaching as a viable career when they experience the joy as a student and as teacher in guided practice. Teacher Working in SHLCs, students grow confidence in Pathways their ability to communicate and see what makes makes teaching fun. Beginning of 2018-19 SY End of Quarter 1, 2018-19 SY Next slide: what they look like

3. What do SHLCs Before Innovation Grant After Innovation Grant look like? Next slide: where they worked

16 Successfully Middle Schools Inclusion Classes EL Students Implemented in: High Schools General Education Students with IEPs Classes Public Title 1 Schools GT Students Accelerated Classes Private School AVID Students Honolulu and Leeward 45 minutes 110 minutes +Other Classes Next slide: academic performance

17 Standardized Test Data Student Academic Students have shown an average of >10% (17% was highest in 2013-14 SY) growth in math Performance proficiency from previous years’ assessments Next slide: student data from innovation grant

18 Student Data Taken This Year (for HIF grant purposes) Student Perceptual Data of SHLCs On left is data taken from beginning of school year, on right is taken from end of Quarter 1. Next slide: how do they work?

4. How do SHLCs work? Next slide: structures

20 3 Tiers of Physical Protocols (How Understanding Environment to Teach, How to Structures Empathetically Explain) of SHLCs Next slide: 3 tiers

3 Tiers of Understanding 21 Next slide: physical environment

22 Physical Student-Led Heterogeneous Learning Environment Community By academic ability of SHLCs Facilitation By social ability By behavior 4-6 students Next slide: protocols

23 SHLC How to Protocols Teach How to Empathetically Explain Next slide: how to teach

24 How to 1) Facilitator calls on any student to read the problem Teach (and writes it down, unless it’s a word problem). 2) Learning Community determines what they are looking for and Protocol how they’ll get there. Facilitator only writes down what students tell them. Saying 3) “what do we do?”and why did we do that?” Students write down everything facilitator writes on board. 4) Learning Community comes to conclusion on how they know they’re right. Next slide: scenario

25 Scenario Next slide: empathetic explanation

26 1) Listen to the other person. How to 2) Try to see how they could be correct, maybe both are correct. Empathetically 3) If they are incorrect, explain Explain A) How you are correct Protocol and/or B) How they are incorrect *It is the responsibility of the correct person to rectify the misunderstanding Next slide: prerequisites and implementation

5. Prerequisites and Implementation Process Next slide: prerequisites

28 Classroom has 4-5 upright boards/easels that learning ● communities can reference (can be on the wall) Teacher has a “call to attention” to provide quick and easy ● Prerequisites whole class adjustments Class culture around collective success, higher level ● students understand their value in helping lower level students ● Encourage calling on lower level students in the hopes they may have a ● misconception (errors are the most teachable moments) THERE CAN BE NO MISTAKE SHAMING Next slide: sharing with students

29 1) Review Tiers of Understanding (explaining and How to empathetic explaining are higher than just “doing”) Introduce SHLCs to 2) Review “How to Teach” and its collaborative students purpose (everyone can facilitate and all students participate during each problem, emphasizing the “why” in the process) 3) Provide learning communities with low rigor problems at first and make sure they rotate facilitators after each problem Next slide: implementation

The Classroom Teacher: 30 Ensures facilitator is calling on all ● students (especially lower level) during process for each problem Implementation Process Ensures all students are writing on ● their papers what is written on board (no spectators) If class gets too loud, ● remind learning communities that 1 Ensures all facilitators are only ● person talks at a time, writing down what the learning and the facilitator “directs traffic” in who community tells them (learning should do the talking, community is not copiers, they are with students being collaborators) called on Next slide: additional supports

31 Higher Level Students show Lower Level Students need most growth in academic more frequent individual performance. work for formative Additional self-assessment. Supports and Mid and Lower Level Students also show growth, but need Ex: Formative Exit Slips, Information more opportunities for Homework explaining and empathetic explanation in other parts of class time. Ex: Homework Gallery Walk Ex: Peer Review of Individual Work Next slide: additional benefits

6. Additional Benefits of SHLCs Next slide: teacher benefits

33 Teacher Benefits Easier informal formative assessment ● Immediate interventions (small group or ● whole class) One-to-one student conferences ● Next slide: college and career readiness

34 College and Career The job market no longer desires rote knowledge Readiness or procedural skills, those can be replaced by machines. SHLCs prepare students with the interpersonal collaborative skills of leadership, communication, and problem solving that cannot be automated. Next slide: student input

35 Student Input “Improves communication skills” “See how everyone thinks” Next slide: Takeaway

36 To optimize Have a large Consider fully Takeaways ○ ○ ○ student work board to implementing time, reference for SHLCs heterogeneously small group group students problem solving Next slide: Thanks!

37 Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at joe.e.manfre@gmail.com Access these slides at https://tinyurl.com/SHLC2018

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