Fwd: Kick Off Your Week: Advancing Innovation in the HIDOE

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From: Supt. Christina Kishimoto <reply@hawaiidoe.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:42 AM
Subject: Kick Off Your Week: Advancing Innovation in the HIDOE
To: 20048903@notes.k12.hi.us

VIEW EMAIL ONLINE Advancing Innovation in the HIDOE Both within the HIDOE portfolio of schools and our state charter offerings, we have many great school models that deliver high-level student engagement, including our wall-to-wall academies, STEM schools, CTE-driven schools, advanced technology academies, International Baccalaureate schools, agriculture-based academies and so forth. In addition to these whole-school and highly defined academy-based design models, we have smaller, within-school program offerings that have the potential to be expanded to whole school or academy scale. During my school visits over the past few months many great ideas that speak to School Design innovations centered on students have been shared with me. Some examples of these ideas include: Creating a pre-K lab school that partners with higher education Expanding an award winning multimedia program to serve as a training ground for other schools that want to replicate the model Transitioning a small school to a blended school model to expand access to learning opportunities outside the immediate community Developing new training opportunities for teachers to engage in co-teaching Instituting more formalized student leadership development training to increase student voice Reconfiguring a middle school's traditional advisory time into "design thinking" opportunities for students Developing lesson plans within a collaborative digital space Establishing English Learner lab schools Creating a collaborative with local businesses for teacher externships What is so exciting about the ideas being generated and the work in progress is that these are great examples of ways to move us along a continuum toward better articulated School Design models aligned with your community. The reason we are focusing on School Design as a leading strategy of our Strategic Plan is that we are committed to ensuring that "every school is purposefully designed to ensure that every child is highly engaged in a rigorous, creative and innovative academic curriculum, their learning environment, and powerful applied learning practices aligned to college, careers, and community." This is quite a commitment! While we are well on our way in delivering on this commitment for many students, there are still advancements that we need to make to meet this promise for EVERY child, in EVERY school, in EVERY community. Re-examine that promise carefully...we are talking about a promise made to every student that they will have an academic experience based on assumptions of: Rigor in curriculum Creative and innovative academic practices Full engagement in the learning environment Applied learning opportunities Connections to college, careers and community To support the teacher-, leader- and staff-led initiatives that are intended to inform core School Design, the HIDOE will be providing School Design Innovation Grants to encourage instructional design innovations. Nearly $1 million in school-based grants will be issued to support thoughtful models that weigh time, curriculum, pedagogy, pathways, community partnerships, supports, decision-making collaboratives and student products to advance college and career approaches that are designed around students' passions and interests. Stay tuned — details are coming soon. Together, we will continue to push our collective thinking about how we are organized to support quality learning experiences for all students, and these grants are one way of designating supports to try out new ideas. FOLLOW US: Facebook | Twitter | Vimeo | Pinterest | LinkedIn | Google+      ONLINE: HawaiiPublicSchools.org This email was sent to all Hawai'i DOE staff. unsubscribe

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