Professional & Deeper Learning
Newsletter Edition 1, September issue
-Albert Einstein
Who We Are
Why and How We Work
Because we know our students will face future social, economic, and political challenges that we cannot predict, their capacity to care about the quality of their thinking and communicating is necessary now more than ever. The goal of deeper learning strategies and practices is for students to become their best at relating to themselves, their learning, their work, and their world.
The most profound thing students take with them from our classes is who they have become. Our legacy is how they will shape their world.
For students to experience deeper learning, teachers must take a design attitude towards teaching and learning. In order to help teachers become better designers, The Deeper Learning Resource Team facilitates and enables a number of teacher driven, student centered experiences, including but not limited to…We're Here to Support ALL Learners!
Contact us for any of the following support services!
Professional Development
We design and facilitate personalized professional learning regarding:
Student capacities and dispositions
Design of learning environments
Deeper learning strategies and approaches
Authentic assessments and demonstrations of learning
Consultation
We find, encourage, relate to, and inform others about deeper learning that is already occurring in classrooms. We advise next steps for school-based growth and change.
Teacher
Networking
We scout and connect teachers that are already designing for deeper learning experiences and environments, creating across district electronic PLCs.
Alternate Assessment Pilot Assistance
We assist teachers in applying for the District’s Alternate Assessment Pilot, with which teachers can waive the requirement to upload Proficiency data in favor of a more authentic Demonstration of Learning.
Deeper Learning Resources
We are building an online bank of resources and models for deeper learning strategies and approaches, created by national, regional, and local JCPS teachers.
The FIRST Days of School 2017-2018 edition
Englehard Elementary's Welcome Committee!
Stop! Collaborate and Listen!
Here Comes the Sun!
Monthly #JCPSDL School Spotlight: The Binet School
All students share common reading experiences as they delve into standards at their own grade level. Students learn deeply in reading class as they build settings from the text and analyze characters in comparative ways while teachers immerse students into the story. This work is extended and complemented in other disciplines, such as Science, where students build landforms such as volcanoes from the story, and grow vegetation the characters experience and eat.
Website: http://www.binet.jcps.schooldesk.net/
Location: 3410 Bon Air AvenueLouisville, KY 40220
Phone: (502) 485-8209
Twitter: @BinetSchool
High School Students dive deep into the text!
Middle School Students practice comprehension!
Coconuts (not Reese's) for breakfast!
September Suggested Reading
by Dr. Ken Robinson
"Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization’s history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation’s troubled educational system. At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Robinson points the way forward. He argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today’s unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with anecdotes, observations and recommendations from professionals on the front line of transformative education, case histories, and groundbreaking research—and written with Robinson’s trademark wit and engaging style—Creative Schools will inspire teachers, parents, and policy makers alike to rethink the real nature and purpose of education."
You can find it on AMAZON.
Contact Us!
Email: tara.isaacs@jefferson.kyschools.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/jefferson.kyschools.us/jcpsdl/home
Location: 3332 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY, United States
Phone: 502-485-3850