Fwd: Kick Off Your Week: Let's see your school designs!

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From: Dr. Christina M. Kishimoto <reply@hawaiidoe.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:01 AM
Subject: Kick Off Your Week: Let's see your school designs!
To: 20048903@notes.k12.hi.us

VIEW EMAIL ONLINE Let's see your school designs! Aloha and welcome to the 2018-19 school year! I hope you all had an opportunity to recharge and get the additional training you need to expand your instructional toolkit to have greater impact in the lives of our students. We have excellent resources to share with you as you start the new year. My focus this year is to demonstrate that the Hawai'i DOE is that proof point nationally of innovation through public education. School Design — the purposeful design of schools to ensure that every student is highly engaged in a rigorous, creative and innovative academic curriculum, their learning environment, and in powerful applied learning practices aligned to college and careers — is how to unleash the power and promise of our public schools. This is our kuleana! Schools are already engaged in this work, varying in degrees and effectiveness. Exemplar schools that are making big strides with their designs can be found in the 2018 Educational Leadership Institute program. We've developed a School Design Toolkit, accessible from my Intranet site, to assist school teams further. Assets include an overview video, a School Design Matrix aligned to the four design components to self-assess readiness and goals, and graphics to help you craft your own school designs to present to your families, School Community Councils, and community partners. Student teams at the 2018 ELI Student Fishbowl Activity. A quality School Design must address what students want in their educational experience. Student Voice was front and center at the 2018 ELI; in one activity on the 3rd floor concourse, a group of elementary, middle, and high school students in a "School Design Fishbowl" were creating the schools and classrooms they would eagerly attend. I encourage you to look at the results and take note of their perspective. They addressed a host of topics, but at the core, what they're looking for are educational experiences that are: Career-related/Real-life experiences Fun Allow for Self-expression & Creativity Allow for Choice Challenging Self-paced Allow for Social interactions & Communication Skills Schools that are able to design the learning environments their students are thirsty for and feel safe within will best be positioned not only to innovate (multilingualism, computer science, Na Hopena A'o) but to whittle down those persistent achievement gaps among our student groups. Our 2017 chronic absenteeism rate systemwide was 15 percent; we will see that fall when we design purposefully to community values and student aspirations. As this new school year begins, what do your students have to say about their learning? What are the pressing issues in your community — local, national, global — that will generate those applied, rigorous learning opportunities that students want in and out of the classroom? I'm looking forward to seeing Hawai'i's portfolio of student-centered school designs evolve this year. 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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