2014 New Teacher Odyssey

August 4-12 at High Tech High Media Arts

DRAFT Agenda
Understand, Connect, Create
Understand HTH principles and practices
Connect with colleagues
Create products for immediate and long-term use

Essential Question
How do voice, choice and audience figure in the creation of beautiful work?

Monday, August 4
Odyssey Launch
Day 1

Project Immersion Experience: The Slice

Understand: take a learners perspective on PBL
Connect: meet, work with, and learn about/from new colleagues
Create: develop a team documentation of the journey; present to an audience

7:00

Sign-in, breakfast, welcome, introductions

9:00

The Project Slice conduct and share inquiry

4:30

Good-bye
Tuesday, August 5

Day 2

Elements of Significant Learning

Understand: elements of significant learning and projects that support deeper
learning; OPOL parameters
Connect: reflect on and share our own significant learning; engage in dialogue with
veteran teachers and colleagues
Create: essential questions and products to guide project designs

8:00

Sign-in, breakfast

8:30

Project Slice Debrief

9:00

Welcome: Larry Rosenstock, CEO

Odyssey packet and products

10:00

Significant Learning exercise

10:45

Break

11:00

Essential Questions and Products Brainstorm

12:30

LUNCH with Directors

Logistics (Keys, Classrooms, Laptops, etc.)

1:30

Project Tunings/Looking at Student Work: Veteran Teacher Projects

3:00

OPOL Overview and Parameters

3:30

Town meeting by school

Topic: What are your passions? How do they relate to possible projects?

Wednesday, August 6
Day 3

Project Design & Workshops

Understand: project design parameters and processes
Choose: workshops connected to personal need/interest
Connect: meet, work with, and learn about/from new colleagues
Create: a project design; an inquiry journal with our fierce wonderings

8:00

Sign-in, breakfast

8:30

Project design workshop

10:00

Break

10:15

Round 1 Workshops (choose one): Subject to change

Writing to learn

Building a culture of collaboration through critique

Understanding Motivation, Engagement, and Creativity

Cooperative learning: equity & access in heterogeneous classrooms

Inclusion fusion

Building a culture of celebration and connection

Differentiation

Talking with parents

The e in PBL

11:45

LUNCH and Conversation on Reading

1:00

Round 2 Workshops (choose one): Subject to change

Building a culture of collaboration through critique

Understanding motivation

Cooperative learning: equity & access in heterogeneous classrooms

Math: Balancing procedural fluency with conceptual understanding

Inclusion fusion

Building a culture of celebration and connection

Creating a Writing Workshop Environment

Talking with parents

The e in PBL

2:30

Work time

3:30

Town Meeting Wondering Wall, share project ideas and take-a-ways

4:00

Happy Hour at Stone Brewery

Thursday, August 7
Day 4

Job-alikes, project tuning, advisory, and panels

Understand: essentials of critique, tuning process, veteran teacher and student
perspectives
Connect: meet job-alike colleagues, share projects with new teacher colleagues
Create: product design for tuning

8:00

Sign-in, breakfast

8:30

Job-alikes

9:30

Prototype Development and Critique

12:00

LUNCH: Student panel

12:45

Video: Ron Berger critique

1:00

Odyssey participant project tuning (small groups)

2:30

Advisory

3:30

Town Meeting: HTH Speak

Friday, August 8
Day 5

Cautionary Tales, Digital Portfolios, & POL Prep

Understand: balances to strike, the DP and the arc of the year
Connect: collaborate with mentors to discuss the Arc of the Year
Create: fun skits & digital portfolios

8:00

Sign-in, breakfast

8:30

The HTH Teacher: Cautionary Tales and Group Skits

10:00

Odyssey POL prep and work time

11:30

Assessment in Projects

12:30

Lunch with Interns and Mentors

1:15

Digital Portfolio: Matching Design to Purpose

3:30

Town meeting, by school

Arc of the Year

Monday, August 11
Methods Class for Interns: the First Day of School
Everyone encouraged to attend!
(8:00 am - 3:30 pm)
HTH 200: Core Values & Foundations
Class for GSE M.Ed. students
(8:30am-4:30pm)

Tuesday, August 12
Day 6

Odyssey POLs & connections

Understand: POL process from learners perspective
Connect: see/hear colleagues products/learnings
Celebrate!!

8:00

Sign-in, breakfast

8:30

Updates, announcements, OPOL room assignments by school

9:00

OPOLs (Odyssey Presentations of Learning) and Connections by school site

12:00

Odyssey evaluation, burning questions, and farewell as a whole group

12:15

LUNCH