DigitalWorks: Engaging the Common Core through Media Arts

1. DigitalWorks: Engaging the Common Core through Media Arts December 10, 2013

2. DigitalWorks Is: • A four-year U.S. Department of Education federal grant (AEMDD grant) • replicated • competitive • Four Pilot Schools • Maxfield, Mississippi, Humboldt and Creative Arts Middle • Grades 3-8

3. DigitalWorks: Project Goals • Integrate into and strengthen arts in the core elementary and middle school curricula; • Strengthen arts instruction in those grades; and, • Improve students' academic performance, including skills in creating, performing, and responding to the arts

4. DigitalWorks: Award for SPPS $1,209,026.00

5. DigitalWorks: For Students Overarching Goal 1. • Improve student achievement and close achievement gaps by infusing Media Arts in the core academic subjects of Math and English Language Arts

6. DigitalWorks: Media Arts Genre that encompasses artworks created with new media: • equipment, applications, programs • computer and digital arts • computer graphics • computer and digital animation • film, television, advertising • interactive media (video gaming) • recording and sound technology

7. DigitalWorks 300 – 3000 visuals a day

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9. DigitalWorks: For Teachers Overarching Goal 2. • Improve teacher effectiveness by providing targeted professional development and support for integrating technology and media arts pedagogy into classroom teaching and collaborate with teachers to write integrated curricula and PD modules

10. DigitalWorks: For Teachers - PD • Effective digital technology integration instruction • Media arts content & standards • Common Core ELA & Math standards Arts Integration-finding natural connections • Curriculum writing & assessment strategies for project based learning

11. DigitalWorks: Key Personnel Arts Integration Team - 1.5 TOSAs to be hired • English Language Arts • Math • Media Arts

12. DigitalWorks: Key Personnel “Arts Integration Team” - TOSAs’ Roles • coordinate and align all aspects of the program • define scope and sequence of units and professional development modules (Moodles) • collaborate with Pilot School Lead Teacher Teams and evaluators • write lessons, assessments and professional development modules with Lead Teachers

13. DigitalWorks: Key Personnel “Arts Integration Team” - TOSAs’ Roles • provide arts- and technology-integration professional development • ongoing coaching • implement scale out of new units • provide arts- and technology-integration PD scale out • work with evaluators to ensure project remains on track

14. DigitalWorks: Lead Teacher Teams From Pilot Schools • 5 different teachers from each school each year • Include teachers of grades 3-8 from each school • General education elementary teachers • English Language Arts • Math • Arts • Multilingual Language (ELL) • Special Education

15. DigitalWorks: Lead Teacher Teams Pilot School LTT Roles – with Pay $$ • Participate in Media Arts & Technology PD • Write curriculum • Refine curriculum • Implement project elements • Support Arts Integration Team during district-wide scale out

16. DigitalWorks: Project Design Year 1 (Winter 2014) start with grades 4 & 6 Year 2 (2014-2015) add grades 5 & 7 Year 3 (2015-2016) add grades 3 & 8 Year 3-5 (2015-2018) districtwide scaleout

17. DigitalWorks: Project Design Years 1 – 4 Media Arts& technology professional development Look at current SPPS curriculum Develop core curriculum units and assessments Implement project in classrooms Create PD modules Revise, add units & assessments Create on-line gallery for student work Begin scaleout of PD to district teachers grades 3-8

18. DigitalWorks: Technology Pilot School Teacher & Classroom Use: 10 Macbook Pro 15” computers 6 Projectors 6 Apple TVs 32 iPads with covers 1 iPad cart 16 Wifi enabled cameras Speakers, microphones, cables, related equipment

19. DigitalWorks: Project Design Winter 2013-14 Draft Theory of Action Meet with principals and identified staff Conduct Pilot School needs assessment Project will work with schools ‘where they are’ not a ‘one size fits all’ Meet with Learning Platform reps, make connections to Personalized Learning focus Aggressive Timeline – create work plan, modify as needed

20. DigitalWorks: Key Personnel Evaluators • Dr. Marian Heinrichs, Manager of Program Evaluation • Dr. Christa Treichel, External Evaluation Consultant, Cooperative Ventures

21. DigitalWorks: Project Design Evaluation • Measure proficiency of students on MCA-III Math and Reading • Examine proficiency of students on arts integrated assessments • Study impact of project involvement and professional development for teachers

22. DigitalWorks: Project Design Evaluation • Survey student engagement motivation for 5th - 8th grade students • Implement a quasi-experimental design study for a group of students in the pilot schools matched with other SPPS students

23. DigitalWorks: Guidance Team • Dr. Marsha Baisch – Assistant Superintendent, OTLL • Pat King – Leadership • Jan Spencer de Gutiérrez - Arts • Teajai Anderson-Schmidt - ELA • Kathleen Wilson - Math • Ivar Nelson – Informational Technology

24. DigitalWorks: Engaging the Common Core through Media Arts Questions & Answers The language of Arts have become the next literacy — the fourth R.

25. DigitalWorks: Engaging the Common Core through Media Arts More Information may be found on the DigitalWorks Link on the Arts Home Page: http://thecenter.spps.org/Arts