[CASL-L] [EXTERNAL] Re: SLOs for High School

[Rocca, Jen]

Because few teachers have been inviting us to take part in research
activities in their classroom over the last 2 pandemic years, this year we
are working on a goal of isolated skills that are not tied to the
curriculum. This is not necessarily what we *want* to do but it should at
least give us access to instruct students that we aren't seeing otherwise
because research has fallen by the wayside lately.

(These are not yet refined and worded all pretty yet)

This year, we will conduct lessons using the SHEG/COR
<https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/> curriculum. We will deliver a
pre-assessment next week using assessment tools created by SHEG/COR.
Students will take the pre-assessment during ILT (individual learning time
- like an "advisory" - 30 minutes every day) The preassessment is a google
form that targets 3 key skills:

   - Who's behind the information?
   - What's the evidence?
   - What do other resources say?

Over the course of the year, we will deliver 4 forty-minute lessons with
all freshman students and all sophomore students. That will be a 40-minute
lesson in each content area: English, Social Studies, Science, and Math.
The lessons are not part of the content area course curriculum. We will use
SHEG/COR lessons.

At the end of the year, we will deliver the post-assessment. The pre and
post-assessments will be scored using the rubrics provided by SHEG/COR.

It's not the kind of instruction I want to do. I want relevant research
skills embedded into course content. But because everyone is struggling,
that's not happening. This is a stop-gap measure so that we can have the
opportunity to get essential foundational skills to lower classmen. In the
meantime, we are working on a better "assured experiences" model for next
year.



On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 9:00 AM Thomas Andronowitz <
TAndronowitz at thomastonschools.org> wrote:

> I'm interested as well - Our SLOs are geared towards SEL this year.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:47 AM Jen <jlarkin24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> also interested - especially as it ties into Vision of a Graduate...
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:45 AM Tenley Stoltz <
>> tenley.stoltz at somers.k12.ct.us> wrote:
>>
>>> Definitely interested in hearing the replies! I know we have the website
>>> with shared SLO's, but high school is difficult if you don't have a class.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:37 AM STEPHANIE PATTERSON <
>>> spatterson at southingtonschools.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All!
>>>>
>>>> I am making some adjustments to SLOs this year and working with a new
>>>> evaluator.  I'm looking forward to a new collaborative partnership that
>>>> more accurately reflects practice here and focuses on research skills in
>>>> addition to everything else and links to one of the "4-C's - Critical
>>>> Thinking - Vision of a Graduate" material that is now becoming more
>>>> embedded in Southington.
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone be comfortable sharing any material and insight for high
>>>> school practice?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Stephanie Patterson
>>>> Southington High School Library
>>>> "Building character with critical thinking, creativity,
>>>>  collaboration and communication."
>>>>
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