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Using the EEI Curriculum in California’s Diverse Classrooms

EEI LIVE!. Using the EEI Curriculum in California’s Diverse Classrooms. Kirk Amato. Kurt Holland. COMMUNICATE WITH EEI LIVE!. Click the red button to minimize the chat box. Drag the small bar off the center of the screen. Communicate your comments here Next hit the “send” button.

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Using the EEI Curriculum in California’s Diverse Classrooms

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  1. EEI LIVE! Using the EEI Curriculum in California’s Diverse Classrooms Kirk Amato Kurt Holland

  2. COMMUNICATE WITH EEI LIVE! Click the red button to minimize the chat box. Drag the small bar off the center of the screen. Communicate your comments here Next hit the “send” button

  3. EEI Housekeeping • Please hold your questions until the end of the webinar for our Q & A segment. • If you are experiencing technical difficulties, try to remedy the issue by logging out and rejoining the webinar. • If the presentation is interrupted by technical issues, we will do our best to handle them quickly and make any necessary announcements.

  4. Agenda Items • Background and fundamental design principles of EEI • General principles of differentiation for any Grade Level! • What does Differentiated Instruction: • LOOK, SOUND and FEEL Like? • How to get your FREE unitand Q&A.

  5. Development Partners of EEI Curriculum Include: State Board of Education Senator Fran Pavley

  6. Environmental Principles Required to be included in all future textbook adoptions PRINCIPLEI People Depend On Natural Systems PRINCIPLE II People Influence Natural Systems PRINCIPLEIII Natural Systems Change in Ways That People Benefit From and Can Influence PRINCIPLE IV There are no Permanent or Impermeable Boundaries that Prevent Matter from Flowing Between Systems PRINCIPLE V Decisions Affecting Resources and Natural Systems are Complex and Involve Many Factors

  7. EEI Curriculum Fosters Choice: Curiosity Comes First! • 85 units total • Each unit contains an average of 5 lessons

  8. EEI Curriculum Enables Differentiated Instruction

  9. What is Differentiation?

  10. “All Standards, All Students. All of the Time!” How does differentiated Instruction look, sound, and feel in middle school settings using the EEI system? Finding a clean line in a complicated world… Responsive Classroom Routines Differentiated Learning Strategies Significant Content (EEI) Common Core, Student Engagement and Job Satisfaction in Middle Schools!

  11. Why Environment-Based Education for Differentiated Instruction?Engagement, Authentic Purpose, Fun!

  12. How Does a Teacher Embrace Differentiation? “Responsive Classroom” Practices Arguing From Evidence Use Engaging Content from EEI A Transition from Traditional Teaching to CC Style-Teaching to Change the World

  13. What challenges do you confront with differentiation in your classroom?

  14. General Principles of Differentiation 1. Meet Developmental Needs 2. Celebrate Students’ Voice 3. Create a “Responsive Classroom”

  15. First: Attend to the Developmental Needs Of Young Adolescents: Create a “Responsive Classroom.” Young Adolescents Crave • Autonomy • Competence • Relationships • Fun (More Fun!) • Put the Human Piece First…. • the Learning will Follow!

  16. Second: Embrace Voice and Choice • Students Create Driving Questions! • You Guide From the Side!

  17. Third: Implement Key Practices of “Responsive Classrooms” (Northeast Foundation for Children) • Circle of Power and Respect • Teacher Talk • Teacher Mindset: Culture of Continuous Improvement

  18. Circle of Power and Respect

  19. Teacher Talk and Teacher Mindset • Authoritative (Speak Softly) or Authoritarian (Safety Matters Only) • Don’t Confuse Differentiation with Permissive Teaching!

  20. What Does Differentiated Instruction LOOKLike? • Community Building • A Variety of Respectful Tasks • Flexible Grouping • Continuous Assessment (Habits of Mind) • Quality EEI Curriculum as a Launchpad for Personalized Inquiry and Place Based Projects

  21. Variety of Respectful Tasks LOOK

  22. Flexible Grouping LOOK

  23. What are Your Strategies for Flexible Grouping?

  24. Flexible Grouping LOOK

  25. Continuous Assessment LOOK

  26. Differential Instruction Can get Uncomfortable, Possibly Painful… LOOK

  27. Kurt’s Challenge: EEI California Connections are Leveled Readings Vetted by Experts! LOOK

  28. What Does Differentiated Instruction SOUNDLike? • Varied Content Discussions • Individualized Process and Learning Plans • Diverse Authentic Audiences: Off-Site if Possible!

  29. Authentic Purposes Lead to High Levels of Engagement SOUND

  30. It Sounds Like Students Choosing EEI Menus SOUND

  31. College, Career, and Civic Engagement SOUND

  32. College, Career, and Civic Engagement:Combine Units for Outstanding Results! SOUND

  33. Differentiate Instruction by Content Level SOUND

  34. What Does Differentiated Instruction in Classrooms FEEL Like? • Respectful: Start Where They Are As Individual Learners • Engaging: Interest Based Learning • Assessment: Make it a Comfortable Reciprocal Process

  35. Differentiation Feels Good for Students and Teachers! FEEL CC, Next Gen, Change the World, Celebrate STEAM, Have Fun, Love Your Job, Serve Kids! It Feels Joyful…

  36. “Climb Out On A Limb. It’s Where the Fruit Is…” Will Rodgers FEEL

  37. D.I. Feels Good Because it Respects Student’s Interests EEI = A Banquet of Choices+++ FEEL

  38. A Last Word About Partnering to Differentiate!

  39. Measures of success include: 32% increase in 12-14 year old girls engaging in, and completing, STEAM projects. Significant Increases in use of science vocabulary. Richer, more specific, arguments with frequent citing of evidence by boys. Discretionary reading up 11% in 3 years. Enduring interest in leadership activities and service learning projects from 80% of former students. Traditional test scores consistently excellent. Does it Work? Yes! Data from 3 year project with Heal The Bay and SMASH“Ideas Into Impact”

  40. EEI Hits The Common Core Sweet Spot: Argumentation

  41. What We Just Covered • Differentiation defined • General principles of effective differentiation • EEI curriculum elements for differentiated instruction

  42. Capt. Kurt Holland kurt.holland@gmail.com “COME FORTH INTO THE LIGHT OF THINGS. LET NATURE BE YOUR GUIDE.” Wordsworth

  43. EEI Educating for the Future “The Common Core State Standards are asking kids to do performance-based tasks rather than just multiple choice testing. The EEI Curriculum gets kids to look at data, read passages, review pictures, and study vocabulary and then put that all together and make thoughtful answers. At the end of the day, kids not only need to show what they know, but also what they can do with that knowledge, and the EEI Curriculum is built to do this.” – Cheryl Meeker, Senior Director of Elementary Education, Manteca Unified School District

  44. Connect With Us! • News • Events • Resources • Share and chat with fellow educators #teacheei @CaEEI facebook.com/californiaeei

  45. What’s Next? If you are participating “Live”: • You may order a complimentary teacher set. If you are watching a recording of this webinar: E-mail us at eei@calrecycle.ca.govand we will let you know how to order your free unit.

  46. Questions and Answers www.CaliforniaEEI.org Kirk.amato@calrecycle.ca.gov Thank You

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