This resource provides recommended purposes and functions of district, school, and teacher teams engaged in meaningful continuous improvement. It also provides a blank template to document a district’s current state of linked team infrastructure. Comparing their current state to the recommended system provides an avenue to target improvement in collaboration and leadership practices.
This example demonstrates how the three core components can work together.
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.
Recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, this audio segment captures the voice of SNCC leader John Lewis.
This video uses graphics and thought provoking questions to assist viewers in questioning the assumptions that the legacy model is designed around and begin to build a vision around what school would look like if it were designed around the learner and 21st century skills and needs.
This 7th grade Biases and Career Choices lesson leads students through a comparison of two careers in the Xello platform.
This 7th grade Jobs and Employers lesson leads students through an exploration of a company in the Inspire portion of the Xello platform.
What does a green AND healthy school look like? Take a good look at your school from these nine different perspectives. Where is your school excelling? Where could your school use some improvements?
These pages are written for a student audience with opportunities for them to connect, explore, and engage with the nine focus areas in Green & Healthy Schools Wisconsin: Body & Mind, Community Engagement, Energy, Environmental Literacy, Healthy Buildings, School Grounds, Transportation, Waste, and Water.
The Explorer’s Guidebook helps students get outside and use their senses to discover the birds in their community. Take kids on a habitat scavenger hunt, create a sound map, and test bird ID skills with this adaptable activity book designed to be used by families, school groups, and anyone looking for a fun way to connect to nature. Inspired by the federal Every Kid in a Park initiative and geared towards fourth graders, this step-by-step guide will help you explore our country’s diverse habitats and the birds that live there. Guide can be downloaded in English and Spanish.
This resource is a 2 part lesson plan focusing on the ecosystem within the community. Students will go out into their own communities and learn about the ecosystem firsthand then will analyze and share their findings as a group discussion. This resource also has 4 articles to build background knowledge.
In this lesson, students will learn about what type of information we can learn from photographs. They will
draw conclusions about the past through exploration of photos and explain how people can learn more about their family history through the use of historical records.
Formulating, organizing, and presenting ideas clearly in writing. Reviews basic principles of rhetoric. Focuses on development of a topic, thesis, choice of appropriate vocabulary, and sentence structure to achieve purpose. Develops idiomatic prose style. Gives attention to grammar and vocabulary usage. Special focus on strengthening skills of bilingual students. Successful completion satisfies Phase I of the Writing Requirement. The purpose of this course is to develop your writing skills so that you can feel confident writing the essays, term papers, reports, and exams you will have to produce during your career here at MIT. We will read and analyze samples of expository writing, do some work on vocabulary development, and concentrate on developing your ability to write clear, accurate, sophisticated prose. We will also deal with the grammar and mechanical problems you may have trouble with.
Increase awareness of the importance of accurate broadband maps. All sources are linked - feel free to use with your school district staff, families &/or community to advocate for equitable bandwidth for all Wisconsin residents.
Facing the Future interdisciplinary curriculum provide educators with the educational materials and resources they need to ignite their students’ interest in complex global issues while helping them achieve academically. They have these four goals:
• Understand global issues and sustainability in a way that shows the connections between population, environment, consumption, poverty, conflict, and other global issues
• Develop a global perspective
• Learn critical thinking skills
• Be inspired to take personal action
This is a reflection sheet used with 4th and 5th grade students after they have completed their fitness testing in the Fall. They will participate in the testing process again in the Winter and Spring. They are reflecting on their currcunt fitness levels and setting goals to achieve by the 3rd testing to take place in the Spring of that school year.
A parent of a learner describes how to best build a meaningful partnership with her and her child. She suggests regular goal setting and involving the parent in the process so that they know how they can collaborate.
Purpose:This resource guides leadership teams into self-assessing their support and practices for fostering family engagement.Description:Based on evidence, teams rate practices in seven core principles of family engagement: Welcoming Environment, Effective Two-way Communication, Supporting the Success of Students, Sharing Power and Responsibility, Partnering with the Community, Providing Equity and Access and Ensuring Sustainability. A summary provides opportunities to analyze findings and plan for next steps.
Students design, build and test shoes to develop new styles and improve existing designs.
This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.