Art to Science

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Art to Science

• Best Practices from Old School
• And New School
• John Antonetti
• Senior Consultant
• Colleagues on Call
• john_at_411onCall.com

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Correlates of Effective Schools

• Safe and Orderly Environment
• Climate of High Expectations
• Clear and Focused Mission
• Strong Instructional Leadership
• Opportunity to Learn/Student Time on Task
• Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress
• Positive Home-School Relations

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School-Level Factors

• Guaranteed and viable curriculum
• Challenging goals and effective feedback
• Parent and community involvement
• Safe and orderly environment
• Collegiality and professionalism

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Kids are different thanwhen I was in school!
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4 Rs of Reflection

• Restate the idea in your own words
• React by telling what you think
• Remember a time when you experienced something
  related to the idea
• Respond to the idea with questions (Posed, yet
  unanswered)

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The Continuum

• minimal

optimal
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RIGOR Continuum

• Adult Behaviors

StudentBehaviors
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CurriculumFrom Guaranteed to Viable

• Making meaning . . .

of information
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FOSL Walk 905

• In a biology classroom, students were labeling a
  diagram of a plant cell. They were putting the
  names of the organelles in the corresponding
  blanks at the end of the respective arrows.

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FOSL Walk 910

• In a sheltered biology classroom, students were
  presenting their posters that explained their
  analogies of cell structures and functions.
  Michael used the analogy of NASCAR racing. He had
  cut pictures form his latest NASCAR magazine to
  illustrate similarities in form or function. The
  pictures were glued to a poster in a web. Each
  picture had a caption such as vacuole or
  endoplasmic reticulum with the words form or
  function in parentheses.
• In his oral presentation, Michael explained how
  the concrete wall of the track served as the cell
  wall and contained all of the action and
  excitement. That would be form AND function, he
  said. He explained that the engines were like the
  mitochondria providing the energy necessary for
  the race. This he considered function.

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Making meaning(Two versions)

• Which do you prefer?

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Power Standards
ful

• Information
• Communication

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Inform communicate
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Building Capacity

• Is it you?
• Is it what youre doing?