Wild Rose Public Schools

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Wild Rose Public Schools AISI Cycle III
Creating Enhanced Learning Environments
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Carol Fitzel

• AISI Differentiated Instruction Coordinator and
  newly appointed Math Facilitator for Zone 4 CARC.

Darin Larson

• AISI Technology Instruction Coordinator, past
  AISI school facilitator

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• Agenda
• The Most Important Thing about our presentation
  is that you will come to understand how DI and TI
  have been incorporated into more effective
  teacher practice.
• Brief background of our project
• Which Educational Leaders Inspire Us?
• What Does DI Now Look Like in WRPS?
• What Does TI Now Look Like in WRPS?
• What Did You Learn? (Assessment)
• But the Most Important Thing about our
  presentation is that you will come to understand
  how DI and TI has been incorporated into more
  effective teacher practice.

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Wild Rose Public Schools

• Communities of Rocky Mountain House, Drayton
  Valley, Breton, Caroline, Condor Leslieville.
• 16 schools
• 5400 students
• 319 teachers

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What Does it Look Like in WRPS?

• 2 Teacher Coordinators
• Each school has a facilitator(s) with release
  time ranging from .2 FTE to .4 FTE.
• Meet as a whole group either F2F or VC every
  couple of months
• Schools have 2 days of sub pay / FTE teacher

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What Does it Look Like?

• Coordinators provide facilitator training and
  resources.
• Workshops are offered to teachers by coordinators
  in the area of
• Instruction with Technology
• Math Pedagogy/New Curriculum
• General DI Instructional Strategies
• Combined DI TI Strategies used in specific
  curricula
• Classroom Modeling / Team Teaching

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Who are our gurus?
Robert Marzano-His work focuses on what works in
schools, the impact of quality instruction and
high-yield instructional strategies.
Michael Fullan- Prolific author and international
leader on meaningful and sustainable educational
reform, leadership and the change process.
Harvey Silvers research is based using an
integrated learning approach to improved
curriculum, instruction and assessment. Marzano
says Silver has an ability to bring research
and theory to life in creative and thought
provoking ways.
Carol Ann Tomlinson Renowned author and speaker
on differentiated instruction is how this is
applied in the classroom.
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Marzanos Research Data
SMART Notebook sorting activity Vortex
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• Instructional Strategies the next steps
• In partners, list three more examples of
  Assessment for Learning and three more
  Differentiated Instruction techniques
• Another sorting activity could be based on these
  student examples
• Write or draw your own definition of AFL and DI.

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• D.I. Submission Criteria
• This lesson, activity or project
• incorporates at least one of the nine high yield
  strategies
• addresses multiple intelligences
• is geared so that all students can achieve some
  degree of success
• allows some element of choice
• is student-centered
• allows students to work at different levels of
  Blooms taxonomy
• is problem or project-based
• involves a Think/Pair/Share or collaborative
  component

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Differentiated Instruction Submission
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Differentiated Instruction Submission
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Differentiated Instruction Submission
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Differentiated Instruction Submission
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Outside Experts Building Learning Communities
for Math and Science
Trevor Calkins
David DeCoste
Hyacinth Schaeffer
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Technology managing diversity through
personalized, innovative, engaging, strategic
instruction

• SMART Boards
• Collaborative lessons
• Shared content
• SENTEO Interactive Response System
• Kidspiration / Inspiration
• Photo Story Digital Field Trip
• Video Conferencing, podcasting, teacher webpages

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Digital Field Trip

• Based on an innovative project by Dave Blemings,
  Grade 5 students are producing slideshows to
  display their learning during a visit to Rocky
  Mountain House Historic Site. The planning
  process involved
• Identifying Student Outcomes
• Onsite planning with Historic Site staff
• Writing project outline and assessment rubric

Parks Canada is currently producing an article
for their website featuring the project and will
be posting the student slideshows as a virtual
tour of the story of the fur trade at the fort.
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Notebook activities developed by in-school
facilitators and teachers

• Koosh Ball (ratio, literature)
• Counting Money making change
• Power of Ten
• Fraction Blocks
• Polynomial Tiles

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• Assessment With Senteos
• Assessment of Learning
• Assessment for Learning

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• Exit Activity 3-2-1 Reflection
• Important ideas you want to remember
• Questions you still have
• 1 Way this session will help you as an
  instructional leader.

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For more information on Wild Rose Public Schools
and a copy of our PowerPoint presentation, please
go to http//www.wrsd.ca Feel free to contact
us at cfitzel_at_wrsd.ca dlarson_at_wrsd.ca
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