Transcript Supporting LASS High Schools Session # 6

Supporting LASS High Schools
21st Century Skills, Technical
Writing, and Lexile Scores
Lakeshore Alliance for Student Success, Inc
Edward Schoenfelt, Executive Director
220 S. 13th Street, Chesterton, IN 46304-2104
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:00 a.m. – Noon CST
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21st Century Skills
Tony Wagner skills for survival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2PqTTxFFc
Over coming the global achievement gap with a learning fill.
All students/adults need new skills.
A high school diploma is a ticket to a minimum wage job, nothing else.
Schools need to be reinvented not just reformed.
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21st century skills learned through the curriculum, which is interdisciplinary,
integrated, project-based, and more, include and are learned within a projectbased curriculum by utilizing the seven survival skills advocated
by Tony Wagner in his book, The Global Achievement Gap:
1 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
2 Collaboration across Networks and Leading by
Influence
3 Agility and Adaptability
4 Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
5 Effective Oral and Written Communication
6 Accessing and Analyzing Information
7 Curiosity and Imagination
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On the next slides state what is occurring in your
school. Items 1 & 2, Items 3 & 4 what would you like
to see happening.
ASIGNMENT
Pair up and share.
Document ways these skill are occurring at
your school and how you can enhance them
at your school.
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
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4.
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Collaboration across Networks and
Leading by Influence
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4.
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Agility and Adaptability
1.
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4.
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Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Effective Oral and Written
Communication
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Accessing and Analyzing Information
1.
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4.
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Curiosity and Imagination
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Technical Writing
Teach students to compare and contrast topics of
global interest/to gain competitive rigor. Teach students
how to use:
*Chicago Manual of Style handbook
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
*Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
*American Psychological Association (APA) style
scientific writing process
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/index.aspx
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Lexile Scores / SRI
A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about
either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text,
like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is
shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile
The idea behind The Lexile Framework for Reading is
simple: if we know how well a student can read and how
hard a specific book is to comprehend, we can predict how
well that student will likely understand the book.
Knowing a students lexile measure will help school challenge growth !
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Stay On Message
LEADERSHIP
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Five Minds for the Future
Discipline Mind – basic literacy mastered (10
years to master one discipline + additional = premium)
Synthesizing Mind – searchlight or laser intelligence
Creative Mind – attempt new things, monitor whether
they work, and keep trying
* Respectful Mind – diversity is positive
* Ethical Mind – admire good work and want to achieve
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Crisply Summarized
Discipline Mind
= Depth
Synthesizing Mind = Breadth
Creative Mind
= Stretch
Up until ten years ago research would of stopped here.
Because of social and political trends two more types were
introduced after 15 years of additional study.
I believe in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s assertion that
“Character is higher than intellect”
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* Respectful Mind (Human Sphere)
Starts with the assumption that diversity is positive and that the world
would be a better place if individuals sought to respect one another.
Coming to respect others once feared, distrust, or disliked
Is not easy. Yet in this interconnected world the potential for growth is
positive.
No quick fixes, only genuine respect, nurtured and earned over the
decades can reduce the appeal to violence / terrorism.
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* Ethical Mind (Human Sphere)
Most individuals admire good work and want to achieve it.
Determining what is ethical is not always easy.
What kind of professional do I want to be?
What kind of worker do I want to be?
What kind of person do I want to be?
What kind of students do we want in our schools?
Create an ethical environment for principals, teachers, staffs and
students to learn in may be a starting point.
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Lexile Scores
The median Lexile® measure for Military texts is 1105L, while the median
measure for Citizenship texts is 1230L. Workplace texts—with a median
difficulty of 1260L—have the broadest range of difficulty, extending both below
and above all of the other text collections. Further, though the median text
demand is fairly uniform across the workplace, military and citizenship
domains, it is higher for postsecondary education:
1295L for two year institutions and 1395L for four-year institutions.
Do you know this?
Where do your students rate?
Can this help to create an urgency for SIP?
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Reading Facts:
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HS graduation no longer guarantees students are prepared for
postsecondary challenges
Graduation rates have declined
Common Core Standards grade by grade K-12 Eng and Math released
and adopted
High percentage need remedial courses in reading, writing, and math
upon entering tech school, community college, of four year universities
42% entering community college take at least one remedial course.
20% entering universities take at least one remedial course.
91% of HS teachers believe they are preparing students for college work.
26% of College professors believe students are ready.
Over the last 50 years the text complexity of K-12 texts have trended
downward. Where as the text complexity for reading demands in college,
careers, and citizenship have held steady or increased.
Shift is happening!
Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges (in Lexile measures)
Text Complexity
Grade Bands
K–1
2–3
4–5
6–8
9–10
11–CCR
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Previous
Lexile Ranges
N/A
450L–725L
645L–845L
860L–1010L
960L–1115L
1070L–1220L
Lexile Ranges Aligned
to CCR Expectations
N/A
450L–790L
770L–980L
955L–1155L
1080L–1305L
1215L–1355L
Measure your Students
College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
http://www.cae.org/content/pro_collegework.htm
Measures - critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written
communication ($40 per student with minimum of 100 tested)
National Student Clearinghouse
http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/ $450 per report, start with last five
Connect your graduates to postsecondary accomplishments, not based on
students surveys.
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References
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21st Century Skills Rethinking how students learn, James Bellanca and Ron Brandt editors
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Alliance for Excellent Education. (2006). Paying Double: Inadequate High Schools and Community College
Remediation. Washington, DC: Author.
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ACT. (2009). ACT National Curriculum Survey® 2009. Iowa City, IA: Author.
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Howard Gardner identifies five types of minds society should encourage in future generations.
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Daniel Pink, (2006) A whole new mind: Why right brainers will rule the future. New York: Riverhead.
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Tony Wagner, (2010) The Global Achievement Gap, CELL Conference 2010.
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Hirschman A. O. (1970) Exit, voice and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
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Mr. Edward Schoenfelt, Executive Director, LASS, Inc. Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties of North
Indiana
www.mvsc.k12.in.us/lass
[email protected]