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#VAis4Learners Innovation Network Learning from the Field June 2019

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Posted on June 25, 2019 by pamelamoran

 

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Monthly Cohort Update

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Thank you to the Advanced Learning Partnerships coaching team for sharing the experiences and project work of the Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network!

Summertime is Not Down Time for the Innovation Network

At this time of year, many of us want to think of relaxing with friends and family, but many of the Innovation Network members are keeping busy this summer. Some divisions ended the year with a call to team members to consider innovative initiatives for the Fall. Others celebrated good work already completed. And still others are planning or participating in professional learning to start the 2019-20 school year off right. We hope these stories from the Network inspire you and keep you motivated throughout the summer, and we look forward to sharing your story in an upcoming issue.

Congratulations to all of the recent graduates of every grade and good luck to the Class of ’19!

I Belong Here...

Moving From Pockets to Culture of Deeper Learning

A Visible Path Forward

I Belong Here…

Educators from five #VALIN districts got to hear from Lily first hand about how authentic learning impacted her high school experience. A follow up conversation revealed even more of the backstory and you can read it here.

Moving From Pockets to Culture of Deeper Learning

Manassas Park City Schools embraces innovation and strategic risk taking. Read about how they have accepted the challenge to implement the Profile of a Virginia Graduate in an authentic, shared and transparent way.

A Visible Path Forward

These cards, in the hands of Suffolk City Public Schools leaders during a #VaLIN cohort meeting, lead to a design session that resulted in a description of the current state of the innovation team’s work. Learn more about the broad reach of this work.

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Hopewell Innovation Coaches Exploring the Power of Video to Drive Change

Suffolk City Innovation Team Turning Insights Into Action

Learning About What a Medical Academy Could Look Like at SVHEC

Hopewell Innovation Coaches Exploring the Power of Video to Drive Change

Suffolk City Innovation Team Turning Insights Into Action

Learning About What a Medical Academy Could Look Like at SVHEC

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What Schools Could Be

Ted Dintersmith is graciously donating copies of his latest book, What School Could Be, to participating members of the Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network. Initial team members received hard cover copies at the March Institute. Paperback copies are now available. If you would like paperback copies of What School Could Be for additional staff, students, or parents, please contact Becky Eliis at rge4bc@gmail.com and she will arrange to get them to you at Martinsville at our next meeting. To have your copies available by July 25, please contact Becky by July 11.

How do you PBL?

Don’t be shy! Share your story on how you implement PBL in your school or division, just like Jennifer Miller, Supervisor of Community Connections from Loudoun County. Jennifer shares a response to the question “Who creates PBL Topics?” from teachers in her division, sharing how teachers and students collaborate on topics and closing with a great example of working with community partners on implementing PBL units together! Check out her fantastic response and share your stories on the PBL FLIPGRID for the Network. Feel free to share with some PBL experts in your school or division so they can provide their stories, too. Thanks!

Powhatan County emPOWer Conference

Our #VAis4Learners teammates in Powhatan invite members of the cohort to join their upcoming educational conference, emPOWer. The conference will be held on August 8, 2019, at Powhatan Middle School from 9am – 3pm. The theme for this year’s conference is “Learning from Each Other” Click here to register on or before May 30, 2019.

Save the Date! July 25 #VaLIN Meeting

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Thursday, July 25th, 8am-4pm

WHERE

191 Fayette Street

Martinsville, VA

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Our next meeting of the Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network will be on Thursday, July 25, beginning with breakfast at 8 am, prior to our scheduled time together from 8:30 am – 4 pm. We will meet in Martinsville at the New College Institute. By the week of July 8, you will be sent an email with more specific information about the schedule for the next VaLIN Institute on July 25, 2019.

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The Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network ….

 is an initiative of the Virginia Department of Education, the Virginia School Consortium for Learning (VaSCL), Jobs for the Future and James Madison University with support from Ted Dintersmith. Coaching is provided by Advanced Learning Partnerships and Dr. Scott McLeod , @mcleod, from the University of Colorado at Denver.

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About Advanced Learning Partnerships

ALP is a partner, designer, and agent of change. We move beyond the expert mindset and one-size-fits-all, quick fix solutions.

ALP@advancedpartnerships.com   @alplearn 

Posted in child-centered learning, Educational Leadership, Organizational Engagement, Professional Development, Project Based Learning, School Culture, Student Leadership, Uncategorized, VaSCL, Virginia Standards of Learning | Tagged Deeper Learning, Design Thinking, Education Innovation, Equity, James Madison University, Jobs for the Future, learner engagement, PBL, Performance assessment, Personalized Learning, Profile of a Virginia Graduate, Ted Dintersmith, Vais4 Learners Innovation Network, Virginia Department of Education, Virginia School Consortium for Learning

The Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network

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Posted on February 9, 2019 by pamelamoran

Across Virginia, innovation work is in bloom.

On March 11-12, Lead Innovation Teams from across Virginia will convene to begin a year-long professional learning journey together. They will engage in strategic work essential to local implementation of the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and engage together to show all the potential of what schools could be.

An intended purpose of the Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network is to create as many professional learning connections of innovative educators across the Commonwealth as possible. To support this active network, cohort teams will contribute to both a virtual platform as well as to face to face opportunities for team members and fellow educators to share resources, solutions, and strategies that support increased engagement of our students in deeper learning. They will build local experiences that lead to strong communication, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and citizenship competencies– all essential to adult success in homes, communities, the workplace, and education after high school. Lead Innovation Teams will take on the grand challenge of removing equity barriers and opening accessibility windows so that all of the Commonwealth’s learners can be advantaged by our public education system, no matter their life circumstances.

The foundation has been laid for this work already. Academies are blossoming everywhere, creating options for students to pursue career pathways from Health Sciences to Engineering to World Languages and Global Studies, Skilled Trades, Computer Science… and so much more. Nowhere is that model making any greater difference than the Academies of Hampton, small learning communities available to high school students in the form of 16 different themed academies with 44 career pathways.

Project-based learning also offers deeper learning experiences to learners of all ages in schools across the Commonwealth and it’s not unusual to see the outcomes of projects as impacting students’ local communities. For example, the iEARN Project that linked Winchester students with students from all over the world in two local school projects. In a Richmond City School, middle school students joined a national viral movement to celebrate Black History Month. And, elementary children in Charlottesville City Schools took their project on strategies for safe neighborhoods to their City Council.

The Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network will serve as both an educational incubator and an accelerator to build upon the strengths of current innovative work already occurring in school communities. The locally-controlled work generated by Lead Innovation Teams will link together divisions, higher education, community partners, the Virginia Department of Education, and educational associations into one professional learning network designed to advance our common goals for Virginia’s learners.

High quality learning that prepares young people to thrive in this century should be accessible to every student, regardless of whether a child lives in Halifax, Fairfax, Virginia Beach, or Galax City. Such learning is also a matter of equity, not just available but expected so that every learner in Virginia’s schools can both be inspired by what is possible in their century and aspire to achieving their own hopes and dreams, regardless.

No one project can solve all the educational challenges faced by today’s schools in America or Virginia. However, as our Lead Innovation Teams work to solve local challenges in concert with each other, we will be better together.

The Virginia School Consortium for Learning is privileged to partner with the Virginia Department of Education, James Madison University, Jobs for the Future, and Ted Dintersmith in support of this three-year initiative to support innovation in public schools across the Commonwealth. 

 

Posted in Educational Leadership, Organizational Engagement, Professional Development, Professional Learning, Project Based Learning, Uncategorized, VaSCL, Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network | Tagged Academies of Hampton, Education Innovation, Equity, iEARN, James Madison University, Jobs for the Future, Profile of a Virginia Graduate, Ted Dintersmith, Virginia Department of Education, Virginia School Consortium for Learning

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