Andrea+Skaggs+world+empathy

My 3 Rules

 * 1) =Patience Please =
 * 2) =Let's get messy! =
 * 3) =Let the plans go.... =

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
If Only...my students left me in June having developed their capacity as collaborative learners.
 * Skype
 * Blogging
 * Edmodo
 * Team Building
 * Questioning
 * Twitter

Flipping Bloom's
 * What is important about the US government and what is a 3rd grader interested in?
 * Post on Edmodo
 * Deep Questioning of each other
 * Collaborating on a blog page

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Leaving Our Mark!

__6 Word Memoir __ = VULNERABILTY = = GOOD ENOUGH = = ON MY WAY! =

Walking the Walk

 * Given our discussion this morning, please consider and respond to the following, as they relate to your personal learning journey this year:
 * Identify your Goals & Objectives:
 * Will Collaboration improve..
 * communication with writing? with speaking? with responding?
 * Will my students gain a new perspectives of others?
 * different cultures?
 * Different economic status?
 * speaking different languages?
 * Will my students developed empathy?
 * Will my students' learning engagement increase?
 * What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?
 * Time
 * Technology
 * Parent push back?
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?
 * Planning time for setting up (blogs, edmodo, google docs)
 * Upfront parent communication
 * What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?
 * Data Collection:
 * Pre-assessment - collaboration survey
 * looking at Edmodo responses beginning of the year vs. end of the year
 * Action Research Assessment and Evaluation:
 * How will you measure success?
 * evidence of appropriate responses on blogs, edmodo, skype
 * How will you know if you have succeeded?
 * What will you collect as evidence of success?
 * First Step
 * First Step

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My goal for my students is for them to develop empathy for different cultures and religions....to communicate with an open heart and to embrace our differences! To be more like Oprah :)

Name: Andrea Skaggs
 * Campus: Wilchester
 * Grade Level(s): 3rd
 * Discipline: LA/SS
 * Topic:
 * Draft a focus question and subquestions, that include student learning, and be prepared to revise these throughout the challenge
 * Search for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - post below and be sure to add them to your campus Diigo
 * Jigsaw notetaking and sharing of resources
 * Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or project to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.
 * Focus Question: <How does student collaboration impact our students' behavior and learning?>
 * Tweaks, edits, modifications...
 * What question(s) remain?
 * what causes negative behaviors?
 * what triggers?
 * what promotes positive behaviors?
 * how can I facilitate team building with my students?
 * how can I promote open communication between students with out putdowns?
 * accepting differences in other?
 * What new questions have surfaced?

"This I Believe..."
How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?
 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

What question are you investigating? (include any tweaks, edits or modifications to your focus question)

As a researcher: What are you measuring?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * kids are dependent on the teacher for answers with technology questions
 * answer questions on edmodo without details "yes or no"
 * What themes are emerging?
 * kids are producing technology products quickly with partners
 * What does your data suggest?

As a learner:
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process?
 * allowing kids to muck around with trading cards...knowing that their card will not be perfect or even come close to documenting everything that they have learned. I am honoring the process, not the product
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * posting "imperfect" trading card on classroom blog for parents to see
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * allowing kids to post about their trading card experience as partners, knowing that their comments may not be pretty
 * What elements of a 'breakdown' or 'spiritual awakening' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?
 * fake it until you make it...telling my self that I am good enough

What story is unfolding from your research?
 * students working together, using technology in authentic ways is more important than having kids produce products for grades

The Power of Vulnerability

 * Near the close of her talk, Brene shares what she has come to believe about the power of vulnerability. What are your current beliefs about your own research/inquiry project in learning?
 * bullet point list
 * What connections can you draw between your beliefs and the "Top 3" learning essentials your group listed at our last session? (//to revisit these, please go to the discussion area on your campus page//)
 * What connections can you draw between your beliefs and the "Top 3" learning essentials your group listed at our last session? (//to revisit these, please go to the discussion area on your campus page//)

**Resources**: "Building Big" Mix & Math Teamwork Challenge LS Teamwork & Physical Challenges
 * Engage week-long plan
 * Card Challenge A

Problem Solving TeamWork Rubric

**Activities**: Round 1

Round 2
Round 3