Professional Learning

Learning for All Innovation Zones

2023-2024 Archive

All three of the SRSN Innovation Zones come together the second Wednesday of each month to engage in using a personalized competency-based mindset to support learning design. A key feature of these sessions centers around assessment for learning and reimagining a state-wide assessment/accountability system. Participants engage with national and state experts, and share insights about their own practices. Many of the videos and resources provided are excellent tools for building and district leaders striving to create quality professional learning experiences.

Click on a the link for a session to access the video, slides and shared resources.

Session 1

Understanding Personalized Competency-Based Learning

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Gain an understanding of the State Board Approved MSIP Waiver

  2. Consider how to bring a learner-centered educational system to life

Access Session 1

Session 2

Bringing Learning Centered Systems to Life

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Understand the latest updates from the Demonstration Project Waiver

  2. Apply the foundational tenets of personalized competency based learning to the eight elements of the Missouri Definition

Access Session 2

Session 3

System Design Zone Districts Personalized Competency-Based Learning Models of Success

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Understand the concept of “growth to readiness” (mastery).

  2. Apply the 8 elements of personalized CBL.

  3. Understand there are various district strategic approaches to engaging in personalized CBL.

Access Session 3

Session 4

Understanding Clarity to Competency

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Understand and apply the foundational ideas of Clarity to Competency: Learning Intentions & Success Criteria to personalized competency based learning practice

  2. Understand the latest updates from the Demonstration Project Waiver

Access Session 4

Session 5

How does Real World Learning Support Learner Agency?

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Gain a general understanding of the Alternative Annual Performance Report work being done by the System Design Zone district

  2. Understand the connection between learner agency and Real World Learning

Access Session 5

Session 6

The Role and Purpose of Assessment

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Make connections to RWL examples shared from last session

  2. Identify key elements of the Demonstration Project

  3. Examine the role of assessment as it pertains to both teaching and learning, as well as monitoring the effectiveness of instruction.

Access Session 6

Session 7

SRSN District / Building / Classroom Practices

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Understand latest work connected to the SRSN demonstration project, both connected to state and federal waiver.

  2. Learn from other SRSN districts across the state about their current PCBL practice.

Access Session 7

Session 8

Clarity to Competency

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Identify key elements of the Demonstration Project and status of Federal Waiver

  2. Gain insight on how educators can collaboratively Gain Clarity by developing competencies, learning intentions and success criteria.

  3. Discuss how sharing Clarity with students empowers them to take greater ownership of learning and explain what success looks like.

  4. Determine ideas for how to assess and provide feedback with Clarity that engage students in making their learning visible on a regular basis, elevating progress over performance and establishing a need for feedback and revision of work.

  5. Discuss students can develop and evaluate a body of evidence that reflects their learning and is aligned to the learning intentions and success criteria in order to Prove their Learning.

Access Session 8

Session 9

Surface, Deep and Transfer Learning Processes

Using the Missouri Framework and a CBL/RWL mind-set, participants will:

  1. Review key elements of the State Demonstration Project.

  2. Understand the status of the CGSA Grant and how it is a key component of Planning for the the Federal Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority

  3. Understand the DESE MAP related request for SDZ districts

    Discover 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)

Access Session 9