Colleen Crowley, Administrator, Instructional Support Services
Dona Stevens, Coordinator, Instructional Support Services
Marilyn Williams, Coordinator, Secondary Literacy
For information regarding IFL in District K call Dr. Colleen Crowley, Administrator, Instructional Support Services. (310) 354-3419.
Lauren Resnick is an internationally known scholar in the cognitive science of learning and instruction. Her recent research has focused on school reform, assessment, effort-based education, and the development of thinking abilities in school subject matters. Dr. Resnick founded and directs the Institute for Learning (IFL) which works with school districts to implement high-demand instruction in literacy and math with diverse populations. She designed the following Principles of Learning:
- Organizing for Effort
- Clear Expectations
- Fair and Credible Evaluations
- Recognition of Accomplishment
- Academic Rigor in a Thinking Curriculum
- Accountable Talk
- Socializing Intelligence
- Self-management of Learning
- Learning as Apprenticeship
Last year our focus was Clear Expectations. Our school staffs participated in Learning Walks that showed evidence of Clear Expectations. This year we will revisit the implementation of Leaning Walks and extend their use through content-focused walks using standards. District K will implement the following IFL work for 2002-2003:
· Learn and apply Accountable Talk features to lesson design and enactment.
- In what ways might using Accountable Talk help students to develop these skills / habits of mind as they learn the concepts in the standards?
- How might we use Accountable Talk to assess what students comprehend and whether students are doing work in the Social Sciences?
· Use the four "Rigor Questions" as a frame for studying and analyzing discipline-specific standards and lessons.
- What does rigorous work look like in each content area / discipline?
- What kinds of instruction help all students to do rigorous work in each content area / discipline?
- How can we assess whether students are doing rigorous work in each content area / discipline?
- How do we ensure that all students are given equitable access to rigorous disciplinary instruction?
· Learn and apply Academic Rigor features to lesson design, enactment and student work products.
· Continue to use Clear Expectations to help students develop habits of mind.
The Institute for Learning District K Fellows support the Directors in their work to provide administrators with IFL training.
