2014-2015

Semester One
University of Chicago PD:
Problem solving through
inquiry; identifying and
addressing global
contexts. Teachers attend
PD, collect resources, and
share with colleagues/
departments.

Semester Two
"Make Just One
Change" Book Club: Chapter discussions
-developing and
sharing lesson plans
-workshops
-instructional rounds
-reflections of shift to
inquiry - Using data to
transition to inquiry
based questioning.

Coordinators plan a PD
"Unit Plan" and are
transparent in sharing the
plan with staff members.
This will model the UBD
best practices we want
everyone to embrace

Identifying DP
requirements: What
does an Ogden
graduate need to be
able to do? Based off
of DP exams (skills,
standards, concepts,
content)

Coordinators will work

to identify Common
Core skills to create a
teacher-friendly
document to compare
and align CC skills
and IB standards

Summer 2015

2015-2016

Using inquiry based

framework from book club
and knowledge of DP
requirements: Create final
exams for semester 1 & 2

Semester One
"Understanding by
Design" book club:
Discussions, workshops,
sharing unit plans,
reflections

Create unit outlines for Q1 &

Q2 Including: Summative
Assessments, Assessment
Criteria, Key/Related
Concepts, Global Contexts,
Statements of inquiry,
CCSS, ATL Skills

Implement and reflect on

units planned over the
summer. Make
necessary
adjustments/additions
based on book club
discussionss

Pilot group of teachers

working on developing
and using standards
based grading practices

2015-2016
Semester Two
"Understanding by
Design" book club:
Discussions,
workshops, sharing
unit plans, reflections

Summer 2016

2016-2017
Semester One
Standard based
grading book club.
Text TBA:
Discussions,
workshops, sharing
assessment
practices and
examples, mining
data for patterns,
reflections

Semester Two
Completed
vertical/horizontal
map for full IB
continuum
(Assessments,
Criteria, CCSS, skills,
SEL, LP, Content)

Design and implement Complete version 1.0

unit plans for Q3 & Q4 of vertical planner for
including: Summative each content area
Assessments,
Assessment Criteria,
Key/Related
Concepts, Global
Contexts, Statements
of inquiry, CCSS, ATL
Skills

Course team
reflection on
relationships
between IB
principles and
practices, Inquiry
Based Learning,
UBD and standards
based grading

School-wide
reflection on
relationships between
IB principles and
practices, Inquiry
Based Learning, UBD
and standards based
grading

Pilot group of teachers

working on developing
and using standards
based grading
practices

Compare vertical
plans across grade
levels and make
adjustments to
incorporate
interdisciplinary unit
plans

Reflect on previous
years work: Unit
plans, semester
exams, data
collected to make
changes to any of the
above.