Our team has over 300 observation journal entries from which to brainstorm questions and projects. See Synergy: Complexity~Simplicity, Collaboration & Brainstorming for the beginning of this work. After Monday’s work in class, our learners were prompted to use a quick-write to reflect on the process of narrowing the project ideas using the idea wall as [...]
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Synergy: Selecting next projects
Posted in CBL, DBL, PBL, Synergy 8, tagged collaboration, communication, data, numeracy, PBL, specificity, Synergy, Synergy8 on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Synergy: Complexity~Simplicity, Collaboration & Brainstorming
Posted in CBL, DBL, PBL, Synergy 8, tagged brainstorming, collaboration, data, data journalism, data mining, decision making, Eric Berlow, idea wall, observation journals, posterous, Synergy, Synergy 8, TED, video on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our Synergy team is at the halfway mark, time wise, of the semester. For the past 9 weeks we have been recording images, questions, and thoughts in our observation journals. We use a common space, a Posterous group, to communicate, collaborate, and connect ideas. The challenge now upon us…What data mining strategies should we employ to [...]
Synergy 8 Update – Week 3
Posted in 21st C Learning, CBL, DBL, PBL, Synergy 8, tagged data, KP Challenge, literacy, numeracy, poll everywhere, Synergy, Synergy8 on August 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Last week in Synergy 8, our team of 26 established and integrated our triad of foundational course-communication tools – Schoology, Posterous, and WordPress. After all, a learnopolis needs an infrastructure for advanced communication. Additionally, we began utilizing and practicing our #1 tool in Synergy – the observation journal. In the upcoming weeks, our team observations [...]
Reflecting from aFAAR
Posted in Assessment, Supervision, Synergy 8, tagged 21c, 21stC, Admin Observation, Assessment, critical friend, data, FAAR, feedback, goals, kaizen, mindset, Peer Visits, reflection, SCF, sharing, Synergy, technology on May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the Junior High, tis the season of conducting Student Course Feedback and, for some, it seems, completing Peer Visits – two of the five components of our Faculty Assessment and Annual Review (FAAR) process. Additionally, a third component of our formative assessment plan – Admin Observation – has been occurring all year. After seeing [...]
Interesting Follow Up on Summa Cum Laude
Posted in Honors and Awards, tagged awards, celebration, data, honors, jhcelebration, parents, recognition on February 25, 2011 | 29 Comments »
On Tuesday, February 22, I published a blog post (Junior High End-of-Year & JH Celebration 2010-11) announcing several changes to the end-of-year schedule for Junior High, including details about transitions from “JH Honors Day” to “JH Celebration.” On Tuesday, that post received 831 “hits” or views. At the time of this writing, the post has [...]
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