JCPS Innovation and Play Day
Take a risk - Fail forward - Make Vision 2020 come alive!
March 30th is your day! Experiment and Share your Journey
Educators across Jefferson County Public Schools are gearing up for a day of implementing intentional deeper learning opportunities in their classrooms to explore innovative strategies directed towards engaging students in active, authentic learning. The goal of this day is for all JCPS teachers, instructional coaches and instructional staff to share their adventures with other colleagues across the district and in our quest towards making Vision 2020 a reality.
Innovation & Play Day 2017 on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqh7c7rfeyEPEdEx-nWeLX9LEIIvqtyJzWhat is Deeper Learning?
Deeper Learning is simply what highly effective educators have always provided: the delivery of equitable instructional content in innovative ways that allow students to discover and experience learning in more authentic ways.
In June 2016, the Jefferson County Board of Education adopted a Deeper Learning Framework, combining multiple stakeholder voices, including teachers, district leaders, students, parents and community leaders focusing on the question, "Who do we want our students to become?" To help achieve the district's strategic plan, Vision 2020: Excellence with Equity, goal one of Deeper Learning stated, "each student will progress towards mastery of both academic standards and the development of capacities and dispositions necessary for success in college, career, community and life." This core tenant is threaded throughout Vision 2020.
To learn more about Vision 2020 and imagine what the year 2020 in JCPS
might look like in our schools, check out this short video.
JCPS Innovation and Exploration Day - March 30, 2017
JCPS Innovation and Exploration Day will spotlight innovative classroom happenings across Jefferson County Public Schools on Thursday, March 30th. By capturing the work completed this day, participants will be able to share with peers via social media, video, peer observation and/or blogging aimed to highlight the brilliance of daily classroom practices in each school to make deeper learning and our district strategic plan, Vision 2020, come alive.
For education to meet the needs of today's diverse learners, educators must continue to take risks, work through failure and never stop trying new things in the interest of student engagement and application of pedagogical practice to provide a personalized, rigorous educational experience for each JCPS student to build academic and interpersonal dispositions and capacities. The ability to see inside classrooms across the district is something educators have long yearned for, but rarely do. By promoting the spirit of collegiality and collaboration amongst the JCPS learning community, we will give our peers an opportunity see inside the walls of every JCPS school and see deeper learning in action.
You Want Me To Do What?
There is no intruction booklet or blueprint for Innovation and Exploration Day. We would like each of you to attempt an activity centered around authentic learning that engages your students in deeper learning activities.
We challenge each of you to share your experiences using the #JCPSdeeperlearning, #JCPSteacherleaders and @jcpsPDcoord hashtags with all posts, shares and innovations. Whether it be a blog or on Youtube, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, let us join together to shine a light on the positive learning happening in public education.
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