Our Innovation Pathways Solution OESIS Network Gold membership has been expanded to include asynchronous faculty foundational pathways in CBE, PBL, SEL and Flex-Blended Design. We offer innovation strategy pathways in critical thinking, cultural competency, grading and STEAM. Member schools access pathway curriculum through a customized OESIS-XP portal. Combining the foundational pathways with our additional pathways for innovation strategies enhances student agency and outcomes. “Our pathways can be completed independently by teachers or with a designated OESIS Network Leader to help them. Each pathway takes eight to 10 hours of work and includes readings, videos, and assignments with lots of options,” explains OESIS President Sanje Ratnavale.
Watch this video trailer to learn more about OESIS Faculty Professional Development Cohort Pathways.
OESIS members may watch trailers, playlists and hundreds of videos focused on innovation at independent schools across the country in OESIS-XP. Below are a few examples.
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OESIS members who want to receive feedback from our national faculty on the units they are developing may register for a cohort pathway ($100 intro; $150 Levels 1,2 or 3; or a Department PBL Cohort) Customized inservice sessions based on pathways may also be arranged.
Ask about Portfolium Student Pilots OESIS Platinum members also have an assessment module where teachers can build customizable skill pathways based on performance requirements and milestones. Recognition of mastery, growth or excellence is based on schooldefined rubrics, competencies, skills or standards and rewarded with badges or (mastery) credits towards pre-requisites. OESIS also offers its Platinum members student ePortfolios that document credentials earned in the mastery assessment platform. The ePortfolio is a student-controlled private life-long collaborative repository of their learning journey (and for parents with children under age 13). Both the ePortfolio and the assessment/recognition solutions sync with many school’s student information and learning management systems.
What teachers are saying ... Gene Cassidy, a History teacher, at Miss Porter’s School (CT) who did a CBE Pathway: “Thanks to this Intro CBE Pathway, my thinking in terms of assessment has changed in the largest meta-sense by getting me to think hard about the “threshold concepts” in my discipline of history... Stripping down content to the most central pieces and then thinking hard about how my assessments relate to what I want my learning outcomes to be has resulted in me feeling far less guilty about the things that I am not teaching and far happier about the things that I am. Looking forward to the Level 1 CBE Pathway, I hope to gain more practical approaches toward shaping my curriculum to better suit the notion of competencies.” Jason Kern, Assistant Head of School for Innovation and Learning, at All Saint’s Episcopal School (TX), who has conducted Virtual PD Days: “This approach was so successful that the Last Friday Scrum Team (which is a team comprised of faculty and staff that plans All Saint’s professional learning time) conducted a Virtual Last Friday again in February. “Our goal is to show the value of online learning as a piece of our teachers’ overall professional learning. We have seen that dedicating one of our Last Fridays to virtual learning has led to further online experiences by the teachers to continue their learning,” Jason shared. “On our inservice day after spring break teachers will get together in their divisional meetings to reflect and share what they have learned through the OESIS-XP platform.” Sarrina Wood, Teacher, Flint Hill School (VA) “As someone who went to the Napa Buck Institute PBL conference, I feel like this Cohort helped me go from an introduction in PBL to a full dive. The Napa Conference was phenomenal in explaining PBL to me, and I got a crash course, but this course truly walked me through developing and implementing PBL. I have a full plan for a full unit now: exemplars, a calendar, a grading rubric—the whole nine yards. Additionally, I have colleagues who are doing the unit with me and are so excited to use the readyto-use materials. This course has also given me the confidence to design more units on my own by following this format and mindset. This was truly a valuable experience.”
Samples from Video library Competency-Based Education CBE replaces the traditional temporal approach to learning with a more personalized approach that meets students where they are, empowers their learning, and permits teachers to track and act on student progress.
CompetencyBased Education
Competency-Based Paradigms Landscape from Public to Private Allison Powell, former Vice President of Research INACOL 4.55-minute trailer
Project-Based Learning Playlist
Rightsizing Skills: Finding Goldilocks Zone Between the Trivial & Obscure Ray Ravaglia, Chief Learning Officer, Opportunity Education.org & Founder, Stanford Online High School & Jeff Scarborough, Director of Curriculum and Assessment, Quest Forward Learning,
Cohort Pathways: An OESIS Network Member Assessment Jude Ross, an art teacher, The Alexander Dawson School (NV) 5-minute trailer
Opportunity Education 5.41-minute trailer
PBL can be an effective tool in giving students ownership of their learning and can be crucial for increasing students’ sense of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
PBL Art and English: Masters to Master Jeff Robin, Founding Faculty Member, High Tech High (CA) and OESIS Network Leader 6.02-minute trailer
A Core Sequence of Philosophies in Science and the Humanities Jonathan Weil, Division Head of Core, Stanford Online High School (CA) 4.49-minute trailer
City as our Campus: Use of Expert Mentors to Facilitate Student-Centered PBL Graig Marx, Science Department Chair, Winchester Thurston School (PA) and OESIS Network Leader 4.5-minute trailer
MakerSpace MakerSpaces are places that facilitate the creation portion of the design thinking process, where students transform ideas into reality.
Building a Maker Mindset: A Maker Sequence PreK-12 Jason Kern, Assistant Head of School for Innovation and Learning, All Saint’s Episcopal School (TX) 5-minute trailer
Passion-Based Learning Through Social Media Nate Green, History Teacher, Flint Hill School (VA) 5-minute trailer
MakerSpace Panel 2019 Michael Garrant, Blair Academy (NJ); Jim Tiffin Jr., Mount Vernon Presbyterian School (GA); and Tim Schwartz, Whitby School (CT) 4.22-minute trailer
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• $2,500 annual membership for schools with up to 100 teachers • $3,500 annually for schools with 100-200 teachers
• Some services are available to non-member network schools at a higher price.
• OESIS-XP Pathway Curriculum for all teachers in SEL, DEI, PBL, CBE, Grading, Critical Thinking, STEAM, and Flex-Blended Learning included
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• Access to OESIS-XP Video Library with 350 PD videos included
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• Cohort Pathways: $100 - $150 per pathway moderated by a Network Leader: includes feedback, digital credential and portfolio.
• $350 per pathway
• Conferences: 35% discount
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OESIS Job Board: Free postings with premium placement and banner ads • Placement through OESIS Career Confidential: fee is 5% of first-year salary and 5% on rehiring in year two for teachers; 10% of year one salary for administrators • OESIS Outsourcing Solutions
• 12% of first year salary for teachers or administrators • Surcharge for nonmember schools
RT-PCR Testing • Surcharge of $500 per • Insurance-Covered Testing Available round • Cash Testing: $88 per test • $100 per test • Included Full Research Reports • Intrepid publications
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• Canvas access is included for OESIS-XP. • Student Portfolium pathways & ePortfolios begin at $3,500.
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