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Preparing for 2019-2020

2 We know that you have the best interest of your child in mind and so do we. We would never intentionally do something that we didn't think was good for them. We understand that change is hard and right now we know there are many questions and rumors. Hopefully, after the meeting, you will understand why we are doing this and have all of your questions answered.

3 “No pupil in the history of education is like today’s modern learner. This is a complex, energetic, and tech-savvy individual. They want to be challenged and inspired in their learning. They want to collaborate and work with their peers. They want to incorporate the technology they love into their classroom experiences as much as they can. In short, they have just as high a set of expectations of their educators as their educators have of them.” - Lee Wantanabe Crockett-Global Digital Citizen Foundation

What you Know (from Welcome Letter) 4 • 2nd and 3rd grade classes will be working as a grade band • Some of the day students will work as a grade level and some of the day they will work as a grade band

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Guiding Principles (created June 2016) 7 The program will infuse technology to enhance 21st century learning. ● Our schools will be a connection point with the community and ● connect curriculum to life outside of the school. Curriculum will be integrated and support project based learning, ● encouraging creativity and critical thinking incorporating the arts. Encourage collaboration (student to student, student to faculty, ● faculty to faculty) and promote cross curricular learning. Spaces and furnishings will be flexible and adaptable. ●

Guiding Principles (created June 2016) 8 The environment will be comfortable, safe, and secure. ● The school will meet the needs of the whole child, socially, ● academically, emotionally, and physically. The school will support vertical (trans grade level) learning. ● The school will support academic risk and embrace learning through ● building resiliency. Thoughtful selection of systems and materials to support activities. ●

Bainbridge Mission Statement 9 Bainbridge Elementary School is a safe and nurturing learning community where we value and empower each other to be our best selves in an ever changing world.

Examples of Customization Around Us 10 AT ITUNES . . . EVERYTHING IS BASED ON THE IDEAL LISTENING EXPERIENCE AT AMAZON . . . EVERYTHING IS BASED ON THE IDEAL READING EXPERIENCE AT STARBUCKS . . . EVERYTHING IS BASED ON THE IDEAL COFFEE EXPERIENCE AT GOOGLE . . . EVERYTHING IS BASED ON THE IDEAL SEARCH EXPERIENCE http://mcl4yl.com/why/

Moving from Industrial Age “factory model schools” to accommodate and reflect Information Age needs and realities. 11 Industrial Age Information Age - United States, 1830 to 1960 - Today - shaped by machinery and mass - knowledge work is more production common than manual labor - jobs focused on factories - our systems are far more - required workers—and therefore complex. students— to follow instructions - adults need a higher degree of and endure repetitive, tasks. knowledge just to function in - schools sorted students, society promoting the few needed for managerial and professional work, and demoting the many needed for the assembly lines. Why Our Industrial-Age Schools Are Failing Our Information-Age Kids by Charles Reigeluth, published July 2014 on Qualty Digest.com

Student Progress 12 Industrial Age Information Age Time-based student progress. - A paradigm truly designed to - Students in a class move on leave no child behind - together to the next topic - Allows each student to move on according to the school calendar, as soon as he or she has learned regardless of whether they have the current material learned the current material. - “personalized learning’’ and Slower students accumulate “learner-centered instruction” - learning gaps that is both high-tech and Designed to leave many children high-touch. - behind. Why Our Industrial-Age Schools Are Failing Our Information-Age Kids by Charles Reigeluth, published July 2014 on Qualty Digest.com

Grade Levels 13 Industrial Age Information Age Locking students into grades. - Grouping developmentally, rather - Grade levels are incompatible with than based on age or rigid levels the Information Age model of content learning, accounts for because students learn at the different rates at which different rates and become ready children develop socially and to move on to different material emotionally. at different times. group students into similar - Grade levels are a key feature of developmental levels, which - the time-based, sorting-focused typically span three to four paradigm. years. - Children can remain in their social-emotional peer group while working on projects Why Our Industrial-Age Schools Are Failing Our Information-Age Kids by Charles Reigeluth, published July 2014 on Qualty Digest.com

14 U.S. Education: The Old and (Perhaps) the New Century Old Model A New Vision Industrial Innovative Centralized Decentralized Data-driven Purpose-driven Micromanaged Classrooms Trusted Classrooms Standarized Classrooms Organic Learning Drill Create Content and Low Level Skills Essential Skill Sets and College Ready Mind-sets Life Ready Taken from What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith page 216

15 “Our best teachers are attempting to do this now in a structure that is not designed to encourage or support it” - From Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning: Learning in the Age of Empowerment

What we already do 16 ● Group and regroup students ● Work in a variety of settings (whole group, small group, independent) ● Utilize a variety of adult support (classroom teacher, special area enrichment/remediation, paras, volunteers) ● Incorporate technology

How will we be doing this at Bainbridge? 17 - Further embedding of The Leader in Me - Creation of non-graded classes - Supportive Schedule (academic, social emotional) - Balancing consistency across the district with individualization at Bainbridge - Variety of instructional methods - Mass Customized Learning - Personalized Learning - Blended Learning - Station Rotation - Non-traditional

How are we preparing for this: 18 - Continued implementation of our Life Ready Learner model - On-going monitoring and feedback (“trying and tweaking”) - Professional Resources (books, websites, networks) - School visits and networking - Teacher collaboration days over the summer and during the school year - Working with IU Coach - K-6 principals will be attending Personalized Learning Acadamy (IU 13) .

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