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Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
Destination Postcard:


 * If only...**my students from last year had left with more ownership of their learning.
 * Edmodo as a tool for collaboration.
 * Flip the learning.
 * Building their research skills
 * Teach how to search the internet

In the next week, I will teach my students how to read web addresses and search the internet more effectively.



Walking the Walk
> **Goal: Does student collaboration improve the following?** What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?
 * 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
 * **writing skills**
 * **ownership of student learning**
 * **communicating with other students within and outside our school community**
 * **Time**
 * **Letting go of teacher control**
 * **Technology glitches**
 * What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?
 * **Planning with team and other EA adopters.**
 * **Have a back up plan when technology is not working.**
 * **Plan lessons for students the opportunity to take control of the pen**
 * ..What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?
 * **Students will respond to questions based on the book** //__Wonder.__//
 * **I will share questions and student responses on Edmodo.**


 * Data Collection:
 * Pre-assessment - //how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area//?
 * Action Research Assessment and Evaluation:
 * How will you measure success?
 * How will you know if you have succeeded?
 * What will you collect as evidence of success?
 * **Student responses on Edmodo.**

Name:
 * Campus: Wilchester Elementary
 * Grade Level(s): 4th grade
 * Discipline: Language Arts
 * Topic: Book Club- Going Deeper
 * 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.
 * 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 can I have my students go deeper with questioning in book clubs?
 * Tweaks, edits, modifications... I orignally started out with a social studies focus. Using student data, I noticed that my students need to develop critical thinking skills and apply these skills in book club. Therefore, I am making a modification and changing to language arts.
 * What question(s) remain? What lessons do I need to teach in whole group and small group?
 * What new questions have surfaced?
 * How can I make sure students are understanding how to develop higher level questions?

"This I Believe..."
How is your journey like that of a storyteller? I am telling a story about my growth in this process. Of a researcher? I am finding out what works and doesn't work.
 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

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


 * How can I have my students go deeper with questioning in book clubs?**

As a researcher: What are you measuring?
 * I will be measuring the quality of their responses. I will use a book club rubric that will allow the students to see what type of questions they are understanding and which ones they need to support.**
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * Some students are requiring more teacher assistance with developing questions that require higher level thinking.**


 * What themes are emerging?


 * What does your data suggest

As a learner:
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process? Sharing frustrations and celebrations with members of the WCE Early Adopters


 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * I have been sharing with other 4th grade team members.**
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * What elements of a 'breakdown' or 'spiritual awakening' have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?

What story is unfolding from your research?
 * (//just bullet point notes for now//)


 * 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**:

http://sbisdlearnsymphony.wikispaces.com/Questioning

**Activities**: