CCS Best Practices

Best Practices Showcase Columbus City Schools

Middle School High School

June 1, 2015

Columbus City Schools Mission Statement

Each student is highly educated, prepared for leadership and service, and empowered for success as a citizen in a global community.

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Conference At A Glance 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Registration- Great Room Gallery

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.

Welcome- Performance Hall Opening Session: Myth-Busting Differentiated Instruction

9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Session #1

10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

Session #2

11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Lunch

12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Session #3

1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

Session #4

2:20 p.m.

Sign Out/Evaluation/Parking Passes

Announcements/Reminders 1. Please remember to sign-in and sign-out at the registration table. You will not receive the $10 an hour stipend or CEUs if you forget to sign out.

2. Parking passes will be given at the end of the day in the Great Room Gallery.

3. The Ohio Union has free guest access to internet. Feel free to use your iPads, laptops or electronic devices.

4. You have a one hour break for lunch. The Ohio Union has several venue options or you can walk to any near by restaurant. If you leave the parking garage, you will need to pay to exit. Parking passes will not be given until the end of the day.

5. Please complete the evaluation at the end of the day. Your feedback is important.

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Session Snapshot Room

Floor

Session #1

Session #2

Session #3

Session #4

Barbie Tootle

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9:30-10:20 The Common Core: How Are We Doing

10:30-11:20 Evidence of Learning Using Interactive Units

12:30-1:20 Sharpening Social Studies Skills

Great Hall 1

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1:30-2:20 The Case for Challenging (Math) Problems Social Justice in Action

Great Hall 2

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Great Hall 3

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Founders

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Traditions

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Rosa Ailabouni

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Round Meeting

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Senate Chamber

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Student Alumni

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Moving Genes

Tanya Rutner

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Helpful Technology in the World Language Classrooom

Successfully Using Standards-Based Grading Playing Around with Complex Texts: Differentiating Close Reading with Drama and Play Building a Culture for Differentiation

Tweet This! How to Use Social Media to Improve Your Personal Learning Network (PLN) Empowering Learner Growth Through 20+ Social Media Tools Developing Leaders Through the Teacher Leadership Initiative

Working with the Students and Family of Appalachian Culture

Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction Differentiating Instruction Through Collaborative Teaching State of the Art Science Best Practices for Teaching Boys

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Integrating Science and Art: A New Strategy to Teach Protein Synthesis

Three Steps to Effective Classroom Differentiation

Eliminating Assessment Fog

Reading Madness

Using Social Media in the Classroom #Innovate #Engage #Empower Make Gathering and Tracking Evidence of Student Learning Easy, Interactive, Engaging and Meaningful

Materials Science

Great Probability Activities Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction

Distance Learning to Encourage Critical Thinking Collaborating to Create Richer Tasks

Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Challenging Students Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction Differentiated Instruction Through Collaborative Teaching Fractions, Food and Fun!

Differentiated Instruction Through Collaborative Teaching

Session Descriptions 9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.

Building a Culture for Differentiation: Q&A John McCarthy Great Hall 3-1st Floor Ask the deeper questions sparked by the keynote. Through this interactive session, get customized answers that help leaders foster a rich culture of differentiation where learner needs are placed first.

The Common Core: How Are We Doing? - Greta Robertson and Steve Hiner Barbie Tootle Room- 3rd Floor During this session, facilitators will guide participants through an in depth discussion reflecting on the current status of work with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Targeted questions will be posed to direct discussions for the purpose of sharing strategies, exchanging ideas and for obtaining feedback for framing future curricular work.

Working with the Students and Family of Appalachian Culture Beth Ann Stevenson Traditions Room- 2nd Floor Appalachian Culture so differs from mainstream culture that it is often referred to as the "invisible minority." Distinct differences exist between the mainstream culture and Appalachian Culture with the distinguishing difference as a dissimilar emphasis placed on tradition verses modern values. A view of Appalachian Culture must be seen on a continuum as many factors as geographic location, family structure, economics, education, and age influence the degree of perceived and operant behavior.

Many Appalachians share characteristics of other rural Americans, but due to a history of geographic isolation, they have come to rely on values related to spiritualism, family, self reliance, independence, nature, and tradition.

Helpful Technology in the World Language Classroom Heidi Baxter, Erica Gonzales and Teresa Zenitsky Tanya Rutner Room- 3rd Floor In this session, world language instructors will receive information about resources and new ways to incorporate them in your classroom to improve communication with parents and students, enhance communicative activities and encourage student engagement. Presenters are previous ASPIRE participants.

Successfully Using Standards-Based Grading Tracie Helmbrecht Great Hall 1- 1st Floor Participants will learn the "what", "why", and "how" of successful implementation of Standards-Based Grading. This workshop will allow time for discussion on grading best practices, SBG protocols, and focus on grading paradigm shifts. All participants will leave with a starter kit for implementing Standards-Based Grading in their classrooms as well as several resources to better understand how SBG aligns to OTES, SLOs, and student achievement.

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Session Descriptions 9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.

Moving Genes Pam Snyder Student Alumni Council Room- 2nd Floor Are you looking for strategies that make complicated biotechnology techniques more understandable to high school students? Join us for activities that help explain the concepts behind genetic engineering.

Learn about FREE summer professional development opportunities. Receive FREE materials to take home and use in your classroom! The presenter will lead the group through a series of images that guide workshop participants (and later their students) to a basic understanding of what genetic modification is and how it works. Interactive posters will be used to help explain the role of bacteria in creating transgenic organisms. Finally, a series of cards will be distributed that contain captions and illustrations that explain the basic steps in bacterial and plant transformation. Participants will be encouraged to place these cards in their correct order. Discussion will follow on the advantages and disadvantages of transgenic organisms. This workshop is sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council.

Playing Around with Complex Texts: Differentiating Close Reading with Drama and Play David Smith Great Hall 2- 1st Floor This presentation will provide hands-on demonstrations of a variety of techniques and instructional strategies that involve play and dramatic approaches to teaching and learning close reading of complex texts. Utilizing lessons learned in the Royal Shakespeare/The Ohio State University partnership the teacher will go over the games, activities and concepts as they applied to Shakespeare and share how he applied them to other complex texts and close reading activity. The emphasis of the workshop will be on lesson delivery and differentiation strategies that dramatic approaches afford us in the secondary classroom.

Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction Dru Tomlin Round Meeting Room- 3rd Floor How do we motivate, engage and manage young adolescents in the middle grades --with differentiated instruction in mind? The recipe for successful teaching and learning begins when we balance four key ingredients: environment, behavior, instructional strategies, and response for learning. Discover strategies that will help you build motivation, create focus, and construct solid relationships with your students every day in your middle grades classroom.

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Session Descriptions 10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Empowering Learner Growth Through 20+ Social Media Tools John McCarthy Great Hall 3- 1st Floor Explore the power of learner's voice to grow academically. Review a variety of social media tools through this interactive session. This session is great for teaching students and leading staffs to expanded access of tools.

State of the Art Science Teresa Bombrys, Kerry Dixon, Rachael Moore Student Alumni Council Room- 2nd Floor Beta by Design and Project Aspire presents this innovative, hands-on approach to teaching science.

This standards based integrated lesson was designed to allow students to explore the concept of atoms in matter. This standard was intentionally selected for an integrated lesson since physical science; especially matter being composed of atoms is a very challenging concept for middle school learners.

Differentiating Instruction Through Collaboration Teresa Heck Senate Chamber- 2nd Floor Co-Teaching is not a new phenomenon, but applying it to your classroom might be. Each teacher has a variety of people who they work with on a daily basis (ie. gifted/special education specialists, field placements, student teachers and other staff members). The focus of this session will be to examine how collaborative teaching can support differentiated instruction, engage students, and support collaboration.

Best Practices for Teaching Boys Aaron Bahe, Elliott Dobelle and Chris Ross Tanya Rutner Room- 3rd Floor We have worked in an all-male environment for 5 years. We have learned about the best ways to engage male learners as well as best ways to diffuse situations. We are all encore teachers, and our presentation will cover both encore and core classes. Some of our presentation will include power point, videos, and some hands on activities. We will have different resources listed for teachers as well.

We presented something similar to this at the MS conference a couple years ago and it was well received.

Great Probability Activities John Fox Rosa Ailabouni Room- 3rd Floor This interactive workshop will guide participants through some of the great hands-on activities and online interactive resources available for exploring math visually, interactively, and deeply. These activities cover a wide range of concepts and levels, but for this workshop we will be focusing on Middle School Common Core Probability. The lessons played out here can be used in a whole class, small groups, or individual setting, or even at home for those students who have internet access.

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Session Descriptions 10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Developing Leaders Through the Teacher Leadership Initiative Kriston Crombie Stotik Founders Room- 2nd Floor The Teacher Leadership Initiative is a joint venture with the National Education Association, Center for Teaching Quality and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to promote teacherleadership to advance the profession. The initiative will develop expertise and engage thousands of teachers in leadership work in schools, with NEA affiliates, and in state houses throughout the country.

Come hear how the Columbus Education Association is involved and leave wanting to apply.

Tweet This! How to Use Social Media to Improve Your Personal Learning Network (PLN) Marisa Keith Great Hall 2- 1st Floor This presentation will explain how teachers can utilize social media to grow their own personal learning network with colleagues across town, across the state, and across the country.

Evidence of Learning Using Interactive Units Jenny Nord Barbie Tootle Room- 3rd Floor Presentation will include a PowerPoint presentation with samples for the participants of how to establish an interactive unit. The unit is a perfect device for evidence of learning and as an alternative assessment tool. Incorporated into the units are the English core, differentiation for student work, ways to organize student participation, and introduction of the CER (claim, evidence, reason) model utilized in the new PARCC and Next Generation Assessments.

Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction Dru Tomlin Round Meeting Room- 3rd Floor How do we motivate, engage and manage young adolescents in the middle grades --with differentiated instruction in mind? The recipe for successful teaching and learning begins when we balance four key ingredients: environment, behavior, instructional strategies, and response for learning. Discover strategies that will help you build motivation, create focus, and construct solid relationships with your students every day in your middle grades classroom.

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Session Descriptions 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Differentiating Instruction Through Collaboration Teresa Heck Senate Chamber- 2nd Floor Co-Teaching is not a new phenomenon, but applying it to your classroom might be. Each teacher has a variety of people who they work with on a daily basis (ie. gifted/special education specialists, field placements, student teachers and other staff members). The focus of this session will be to examine how collaborative teaching can support differentiated instruction, engage students, and support collaboration.

Sharpening Social Studies Skills Matt Doran and Lynda Ray Barbie Tootle Room-3rd Floor Ohio’s New Learning Standards for Social Studies identify four skills “Topics” within the social studies strands: Historical Thinking and Skills (History), Spatial Thinking and Skills (Geography), Civic Participation and Skills (Government), and Economic Decision Making and Skills (Economics). Content and skills are not mutually exclusive, and should be taught together using an inquiry-based approach.

This will session will help teachers at all grade levels assess prior learning and prepare students for the next level of social studies thinking. Participants will receive hands-on activities ready for classroom use.

Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Challenging Students Ellen McGrew, Kelly McLeese and Kate Schuler Rosa Ailabouni Room- 3rd Floor We work as Encore (Music, PE and Art) teachers at a separate facility for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Working with this population can be difficult, so we plan to share with teachers proactive and reactive strategies and tools to assist with classroom management. We will field specific questions that attendees have. This session would be relevant for any classroom teacher.

Collaborating to Create Richer Tasks Susan Barnhouse, Kara McCormick and Mary Beth Zavodnik Great Hall 2-1st Floor

Through our work as a multi-grade level PLC, we found that working together is far more powerful than working alone. With the advent of PARCC assessments and Common Core standards, students today are asked to complete rich tasks that are much more in depth than they traditionally have been asked to complete in the past. It is important that students have opportunities in the classroom to engage with abstract concepts in more concrete and realworld ways. This in turn makes the math more accessible regardless of student ability.

During our session, we will share how our collaboration process works as well as examples of richer tasks that we have created together. In our session attendees can expect to experience this collaborative process first hand, in order to create their own richer tasks.

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Session Descriptions 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Three Steps to Effective Classroom Differentiation John McCarthy Great Hall 3- 1st Floor Differentiation is a critical lens for instructional planning. Explore how teachers and leaders can help foster intentional differentiation by following three key steps. Learners win.

Reading Madness Sam Leopold Founders Room- 2nd Floor I will show teachers how I have successfully connected the NCAA college basketball tournament with my reading instruction. I set up a tournament bracket of 64 books at the beginning of the year and we work our way through each bracket of books until we come down to the final four. Our final four lessons occur at the same time as the final rounds of the real tournament. This has brought so many reluctant readers on board with my instruction, especially boys. Each teacher will receive a book tournament bracket that can be used for grades 6 through 12. Also, brackets will be given out for books for grades 3 through 5. The discussion will tie in the bracket activity with a middle school/high school Newbery and Caldecott challenge project. Participants will also be given the template for next year, which will include the book titles and a schedule of activities.

Materials Science Darren Greschuk Traditions Room- 2nd Floor Materials Science is a hands on, relevant, and inquiry-based alternative to standard chemistry and physics. In essence it is applied chemistry and physics taught by examining crystals, metals, ceramics and glass, polymers and composites. It is typically only seen in colleges, but has been developed as a high school level course thanks to engineers from Battelle and the ASM foundation. Courses for teachers are offered every summer at Tolles. Students say it is the best science class they've ever taken. I say, that it's amazing that I can have this much fun teaching science!

Fractions, Food and Fun! Lauren Bryant and Kelly Nemergut Tanya Rutner Room- 3rd Floor This lesson will be a cooking demonstration where teachers learn to apply Math Common Core and Extended Standards involving fractions using a real world model of making salsa. Teachers will learn how to use the recipe as a way for their students to analyze proportions and ratios of ingredients.

Teachers will be provided with strategies to incorporate differentiation for all types of learners in a classroom. This will be a fun and interactive lesson that focuses on real world application of the content taught in class.

Distance Learning to Encourage Critical Thinking Mike Mirarchi and Jenny Meade Great Hall 1- 1st Floor Attend this session to learn about the district resources available to bring rich experiences into your classroom. The session will highlight content providers and give you tips and suggestions to help you use distance learning to promote higher levels of questioning and discussion within your classroom.

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Session Descriptions 1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

Make Gathering And Tracking Evidence of Student Learning Easy, Interactive, Engaging and Meaningful!

Kate Dennison and Amelia Gordon Ohio State Traditions Room- 2nd Floor We will discuss and present a variety of ways to gather data in the classroom. We will showcase these techniques in an interactive way to engage fellow teachers.

Mastery Connect – teachers will be able to take a mastery connect quiz we design and scan their data using a webcam. They will then be able to see how the mastery connect technology tracks data by standard and how this technology could work for differentiation and grouping. ~iPads~Gizmo Plickers (economical and engaging alternative to traditional clickers) We will then discuss how we have used this data in ELA and Science classes 7-9 to inform our practice.

Conversations about utilizing the data for TBT and how we have seen children grow and colleagues interact to support each other’s contents will be shown. Examples of how students take ownership of their data will also be given.

The Case For Challenging (Math) Problems Zach Patterson and Jeremy Stuhlfauth Barbie Tootle- 2nd Floor Teachers will work through several challenging tasks designed to engage and challenge students in understanding mathematical concepts ranging from 8th grade through AP Calculus.

Creating the Balance: Effective Classroom Management & Exceptional Differentiated Instruction Dru Tomlin Round Meeting Room- 3rd Floor

How do we motivate, engage and manage young adolescents in the middle grades --with differentiated instruction in mind? The recipe for successful teaching and learning begins when we balance four key ingredients: environment, behavior, instructional strategies, and response for learning. Discover strategies that will help you build motivation, create focus, and construct solid relationships with your students every day in your middle grades classroom.

Social Justice In Action Jimmie Beall Great Hall 1- 1st Floor Using an interactive and collaborative approach, this session facilitates the development of practical strategies aimed at fostering equity and access for all students including those who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning (LGBTQ). In addition to providing foundational knowledge regarding what it means to identify as LGBTQ, participants will engage in activities designed to foster social justice. Through the use of culturally responsive practices, educators will be able to successfully enhance their current pedagogical practice using their current course curriculum while creating safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces. Implementing strategies designed to promote social justice does not require additional work but a purposeful approach, which this session aims to assist educators in developing.

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Session Descriptions 1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

Using Social Media in the Classroom #Innovate #Engage #Educate #Empower Ryan Van Bibber Ohio State Founders Room- 2nd Floor Come and learn how to use various social media platforms in your classroom, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SoundCloud, blogs and more!

Integrating Science and Art: A New Strategy to Teach Protein Synthesis Kerry Dixon, Rachael Moore, Pam Snyder Great Hall 2- 1st Floor Do your students struggle to understand the “Central Dogma” of biology? Are you looking for innovative teaching techniques? Join two artists and a science teacher as we use an integrated art and science project to teach transcription and translation. Participants will create a representative work of art that models the process of transcription and translation. This lesson is not about simple diagrams, drawings or illustration. Instead, it demonstrates an arts-integrated approach to teaching challenging science content. While improving science content knowledge is the main goal, this innovative approach gives students opportunities to cultivate technical as well as higher order thinking skills in both disciplines. Finally, the presenters will discuss strategies for developing analogical reasoning skills that bridge the content areas. Developed through a grant from the Ohio Soybean Council, this project is one of many free innovative lessons, videos and other curriculum materials housed at OSC's website, GrowNextGen.org.

Eliminating Assessment Fog John McCarthy Great Hall 3- 1st Floor Effective Differentiation begins with quality assessments that provide clear data. Unpack how formative assessments can make student data hazy and how to clear the air for truly knowing what students understand and do not understand.

Differentiating Instruction Through Collaboration Teresa Heck Senate Chamber- 2nd Floor Co-Teaching is not a new phenomenon, but applying it to your classroom might be. Each teacher has a variety of people who they work with on a daily basis (ie. gifted/special education specialists, field placements, student teachers and other staff members). The focus of this session will be to examine how collaborative teaching can support differentiated instruction, engage students, and support collaboration.

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Starring the Following CCS Presenters

Greta Robertson * Steve Hiner * Beth Ann Stevenson * Pam Snyder * Heidi Baxter * Erica Gonzales * Teresa Zenitsky * Tracie Helmbrecht * David Smith * Teresa Bombrys * John Fox * Jenny Nord * Marissa Keith * Matt Doran * Lynda Ray * Susan Barnhouse * Kara McCormick * Mary Beth Zavodnik * Ellen McGrew * Kelly McLeese * Katie Schuler * Lauren Bryant * Kelly Nemergut * Mike Mirarchi * Jenny Meade * Darren Greschuk * Kate Dennison * Amelia Gordon * Zach Patterson * Jeremy Stuhlfauth * Ryan Van Bibber * 15

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