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Date: Feb 11 & Feb 25


 * Topic:** **CONDUCTING A SCHOOL-BASED INNOVATION FIELD TRIP**

Test out NetTrekker: An Educational Search Tool Free Trial Flyer: Join our NetTrekker group || Thinking about innovation in your school Connecting with your principal about possible Innovation Field Trip dates || Join our learning network Respond to this discussion - [|How is your school preparing students for the 21st century?] If you've already responded, please comment on another person's response. Join our School Visitations group Email your principal this question: "What are some possible dates our school might conduct a Innovation Field Trip?" || > Treating the Instructional Core: Education Rounds Discussion Forum - Discuss Article [|The Making Meaning Protocol] || Discussion: Suggestions for additional guidelines ||
 * **Time** || **Topic** || **Resources** ||
 * 8:00 || Sign-in || //Breakfast will be hosted by NetTrekker//
 * 8:30 || Welcome & Introductions
 * 8:50 || NetTrekker: An Educational Search Tool || Kam Hau, Senior, Sales Support Representative ||
 * 9:00 || **Overview: What is an Innovation Field Trip?**
 * Defining the** four elements of an Innovation Field Trip
 * Problem of Practice
 * Observation of Practice
 * Observation Debrief
 * Next Level of Work || media type="custom" key="5381355" ||
 * 9:30 || **Study Group**
 * Read article and discuss implications for our work:
 * Protocol**:** [|The Making Meaning Protocol] || Innovation Field Trip Resources
 * 10:00 || **Observation of Practice**
 * Observation Guidelines || [|Classroom Visitation Sheet]- To be shared with walkers before the observations.
 * 10:15 || **Learning to See: Making Observations**
 * Low inference vs. High inference observations

Activity: Using guiding questions to view a lesson.

Record Observations using Poll Everywhere

To respond visit: http://poll4.com What are the students saying and doing? What are the teachers saying and doing? What is the task? Problem of practice: How can technology be used effectively to help us better engage students in the drafting process of writing? (Watch first 8 minutes only)
 * Enter 5359 (space) and your response
 * Enter 53228 (space) and your response
 * Enter 53333 (space) and your response || media type="custom" key="5357167"media type="custom" key="5357135"media type="custom" key="5360737" ||
 * 10:30 || Break and NetTrekker || Check out NetTrekker in the rear computer carousel ||
 * 10:50 || **View a sample lesson.**

Teacher Name: Room Number: Grade/Subject: Name of Lesson: Previous Learning: Teaching Point / Objective: Brief Description: What you might want to look at (i.e. student journals): Notes / Comments: ||

(If you are looking for a sample lesson to use for the innovation field trip protocol at your school, this collection may be helpful) High School Math Lesson High School English Lesson ||
 * Collection of Classroom Videos to Use for Professional Development **
 * 11:00 || **Activity: What's the Evidence?** || What's the Evidence? ||
 * 11:15 || **Identifying Innovative Practices and Problem of Practice**

Determining Innovative Practice  A Problem of Practice: > (the interactions of the teacher, student and content) > (would make a significant difference for student learning)  Devising a Problem of Practice requires || Discussion Forum Sample Problems of Practice || Discussion Forum || Learning to Observe Data Where was the evidence (or lack of evidence) for this specific problem of practice? -The previous questions serve as a guide (What was task? What were students/teachers saying or doing?) -What did you see, not infer? -What surprises? What was unexpected? -Dig deep into the data.
 * [|The Innovation Scales.pdf]
 * Focuses on instructional core
 * Is Directly Observable
 * Is Actionable (and can be improved in real time)
 * Connects to a broader strategy of improvement and the school's action plan (within school or school system)
 * Is high-leverage
 * 1) Data
 * 2) Dialogue
 * 3) Current Work
 * 11:40 || **Fine-tuning the Problem of Practice**
 * ** Participants will share problem of practice with the group ** || Tuning Protocol: Problem of Practice
 * 12:40 || World Book Online Presentation || Debbie Fenzel Debbie.fenzel@worldbook.com ||
 * 12:50 || LUNCH || //World Book Online will be available for Q&A// ||
 * 1:30 || **[|Observation Debrief based on Sample lesson]**
 * ** HERE'S WHAT **

What is the meaning of the data? What are the: Patterns? Meanings? Connections? Inferences? What assumptions are your comments based on?
 * SO WHAT **

What actions might the group take? [|Sample Lesson Observation Debrief.doc] || [|Review Collection of Poll Everywhere Observations] media type="custom" key="5478279" media type="googlespreadsheet" key="t8Psum0te8xfnneH7xfCawQ" height="500" width="720" || media type="custom" key="5378861" ||
 * NOW WHAT **
 * Debrief should include teachers & students visited
 * 1:50 || **Next Level of Work**
 * Guidelines for the next level of work || * Share next steps for Sample lesson Teacher
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 * 2:10 || **Capturing Your Innovation Field Trip**
 * Pictures
 * Take pictures and post to school Flickr account.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">You can link to the album or embed the album as a slideshow OR can link to/embed individual pictures
 * Video
 * Take video and upload to school Vimeo account
 * You can link to or embed videos
 * Next Level of Work
 * Create a Google Spreadsheet with the three columns below and embed:
 * The plans of each teacher for next level of work
 * The plans from administration for next level of work
 * The plans from participants to help innovate their own practice.
 * Publish this on your school wiki, website, or blog
 * Show appreciation and give feedback to hosting teachers and students
 * Twitter, Wall Wisher , Thank you notes || [[image:learning_walk_page.JPG width="578" height="493" link="Capturing Your Learning Walk"]] ||
 * 2:25 || **Planning Your School's Innovation Field Trip**

Create a School Innovation Field Trip Page on your school wiki or website

Items to include: [|Innovative Field Trip Schedule] <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Potential Weeks for Innovation Field Trip: * April 12-16
 * Proposed date
 * School visit schedule
 * Identify space(s) for pre-brief/debrief sessions
 * Create Poll Everywhere Polls to capture data during field trip
 * Create Google Forms to capture next steps
 * Identify pictures/videos you want to cpature
 * Determine where this will be published
 * Schools not in our PSI or PDN grants can contact oitm@schools.nyc.gov to coordinate publishing of innovation field trip
 * Modify templates as necessary || School Innovation Field Trip Page
 * May 3-6
 * May 17-19
 * June 1-4
 * June 14-18

//Note: April has only one walk because it begins with Spring Break and ends with ELA testing, not leaving much time in-between for multiple walks.// ||
 * 3:15 || Wrap-up / Evaluation || Complete [|Evaluation]
 * Borough: Manhattan
 * Location: HRTC
 * Class Name: INNOVATION LEARNING WALK CELEBRATION ||