Surface, Deep and Transfer Learning

Deeper Learning Pathway: Curriculum & Instruction

You can use the Register button to sign up for any of the upcoming live virtual sessions listed below. If the session has already occurred the recording and resources are provided.

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Monthly Learning: Clarity to Competency

  • Date: May 8, 2024

  • Time: 10:30-12 PM

  • Intended Audience: Leaders of SRSN Districts and State and Regional Organizations, Principals, Instructional Coaches, Teachers

  • Location: Virtual

  • Description: The following session provides an overview of the recommended next steps systems should take to ensure that the clarity of vision and planning move towards the steps necessary to implement the work of CBL within and across school sites. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:

    • 1. Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

    • 2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

    • 3. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

    • 4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

    • 5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

    • 6. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

    • 7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

    • 8.Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.

This session does not require registration since it is the Monthly Learning session. Check back after May 8th for the recording.

Session 1

  • Date: May 14, 2024

  • Time: 10-12 PM

  • Intended Audience: Leaders of SRSN Districts and State and Regional Organizations, Principals, Instructional Coaches, Teachers

  • Location: Virtual

  • Description: The following session will focus on the development and design of system-wide standards-based rubrics that meet rigorous teaching and learning expectations as well as the core elements of assessment design and deployment within the classroom. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:

    • 2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

Guest Expert

Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell, Ed.D.
Core Collaborative
Author Consultant

Michael McDowell, EdD was a public school educator for eighteen years serving in the roles of classroom teacher, academic and athletic coach, school principal, assistant superintendent of personnel and instruction, and superintendent. During his tenure as a superintendent, his school district received state and national accolades including the National Blue Ribbon Award which recognized their work for student performance and mental health and well-being in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by the U.S. Department of Education.

Dr. McDowell serves on numerous boards, served as a college professor, and worked for non-profit organizations to enhance student learning around the world. Over the course of his career, Dr. McDowell has authored bestselling books, created professional learning programs and workbooks, provided keynotes and workshops, and provided practical tools and resources for thousands of teachers and leaders on almost every continent around the world. A prolific author and consultant, Dr. McDowell is recognized as one of the leading authorities on integrating innovative and impactful practices into schools. Offering keynotes and executive coaching to heads of school around the world, he partners with educational leaders to implement high leverage strategies that will enhance teaching and learning in classrooms, schools, and systems.

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