Making T-TESS COOL
Professional Learning as a Growth Culture
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A Changin' 1964
What changes are a comin'?
What changes have already happened that signal a need to transform our learning systems?
Thinking Assessment
Raising Standards
Learning for ALL Students
Q1: What changes are a comin'? What implications do they have for learning?
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Q2: How do we prepare students for success in an unknown future?
Q3: What does it mean to be student-centered? What changes must we make?
What can conceptual models do for a system?
Q4: Why should we jump across the canyon from PDAS to T-TESS?
Q5: What are some ways we can make professional learning more student-centered?
COOL Overview
BirdvilleISD: T-TESS Preview for Administrators
Q6: What is an idea/strategy/metaphor you have for helping teachers understand the transformative culture of T-TESS?
Make Them Gold
Crysten Caviness
Coordinator of Professional Learning and Curriculum Management
Birdville ISD
Birdville ISD
Email: crysten.caviness@birdvilleschools.net
Twitter: @mrscaviness