7TH & 8TH GRADE SUMMER CO-LAB
@ Mayerson Academy
June 23, 24, 25
8:00-3:00
to bring the future of learning to CPS high schools!
for the classrooms of the future
technical capacity
adaptive capacity
technical tools
the district’s 2014-2015 plan for professional learning
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June 2014,
Dear 7th & 8th Grade Summer Co-LAB Participant,
We are excited you have decided to join us for the 7th and 8th Grade Co-LAB. As the name implies,
our full intent is to create a powerful learning experience together. The agenda is designed to
maximize new learning and active creation with ample time to draw out the expertise in the room.
The three days have been designed around five primary elements:
Learning Labs that will introduce new concepts
Creation Stations for applying that knowledge with your team or as an individual
Sharing Time for reflecting with peers and revising developing work.
Choice Sessions to select additional areas for learning based on your needs and interests
Feedback Sessions to help the design team understand how best to support your learning going
forward.
We hope you find the next three days together to be a highly valuable team building and learning
experience and we enthusiastically invite you to let us know what we can do to make this time as
useful to you as possible. We will look forward to hearing your ideas.
Highest regards,
The Co-LAB Team
Welcome!
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Day One: Monday, June 23, 2014 Thank you for being here! Here is how we plan to spend the day together….
8:30 Welcome and Introduction (Banquet Room)
Dr. Gabriel Lofton, Assistant Superintendent, Cincinnati Public Schools
Dr. Jillian Darwish, President, Mayerson Academy
Eve Bolton, President, Cincinnati Board of Education
8:50 Special Announcement (Banquet Room)
Laura Mitchell, Deputy Superintendent, Cincinnati Public Schools
Sarah Trimble-Oliver, Director of Information Technology Applications, Cincinnati Public
Schools
9:45 Keynote Speaker (Banquet Room)
Dr. Martin Davidson, Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia, Darden
School of Business
12:00 Whole Group Morning Wrap-up (Banquet Room)
12:15 Lunch (Banquet Room)
12:55 School Team Collaboration Creation Stations (Banquet Room, CTE, 1A, ILC)
Banquet Room 1: Woodward & Hughes 1A: Gamble, Clark, Shroder, SCPA & Walnut Hills
Banquet Room 2: Aiken & Taft ILC: Oyler, Riverview, & Dater
CTE: Withrow & Western Hills University
1:35 Recharge! (Banquet Room)
Meredith Potter, Alliance for a Healthier Generation
2:00 Collaboration Sharing Time (Banquet Room, CTE, 1A, ILC)
Banquet Room 1: Woodward & Hughes 1A: Gamble, Clark, Shroder, SCPA & Walnut Hills
Banquet Room 2: Aiken & Taft ILC: Oyler, Riverview, & Dater
CTE: Withrow & Western Hills University
2:40 Closing Remarks (Banquet Room)
Julie Sellers, President, Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
2:50 Whole Group Wrap-up (Banquet Room)
3:00 Adjourn
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Day Two: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Thank you for being here! Here is how we plan to spend the day together….
8:30 Welcome (Banquet Room)
Dr. Jillian Darwish, President, Mayerson Academy
8:40 Who Were You? (Banquet Room)
Joan Pack-Rowe & Ray Nephew
10:10 Who are They? Brain Research (Banquet Room)
Dr. Talia Johnson & Dr. Kami Hill
11:30 Whole Group Feedback (Banquet Room)
Dr. Jillian Darwish, President, Mayerson Academy
11:45 Lunch (Banquet Room)
12:15 Social and Emotional Learning (Banquet Room)
Ray Nephew
12:45 Next Steps to Advisory (Banquet Room)
Cindy Sanders
2:00 Advisory School Team Creation Stations: Part One (Banquet Room, CTE, 1A, ILC)
Banquet Room 1: Woodward & Hughes 1A: Gamble, Clark, Shroder, SCPA & Walnut Hills
Banquet Room 2: Aiken & Taft ILC: Oyler, Riverview, & Dater
CTE: Withrow & Western Hills University
2:50 Closing (Banquet Room)
3:00 Adjourn
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Day Three: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Thank you for being here! Here is how we plan to spend the day together….
8:30 Welcome & Introduction (Banquet Room)
Dr. Jillian Darwish, President, Mayerson Academy
Julia Indalecio, Social Studies Curriculum Manager, Cincinnati Public Schools
8:40 Advisory School Team Creation Stations: Part Two (Banquet Room, Room 112, Room 1A, ILC)
Banquet Room 1: Woodward & Hughes 1A: Gamble, Clark, Shroder, SCPA & Walnut Hills
Banquet Room 2: Aiken & Taft ILC: Oyler, Riverview, & Dater
Room 112: Withrow & Western Hills University
9:00 Sharing Advisory Plans (Banquet Room, Room 112, 1A, ILC)
Banquet Room 1: Woodward & Hughes 1A: Gamble, Clark, Shroder, SCPA & Walnut Hills
Banquet Room 2: Aiken & Taft ILC: Oyler, Riverview, & Dater
Room 112: Withrow & Western Hills University
10:30 Recharge! (Banquet Room)
Meredith Potter, Alliance for a Healthier Generation
10:55 Session of Choice: 1A-1E (Banquet Room, Room 112, Room 1A, ILC, Room 201, Room 110)
Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom, Dr. Kami Hill & Dr. Talia Johnson (Room 1A)
Creating Community in the Middle School Classroom, Joan Pack-Rowe (ILC)
Windows Tablet Basics, Sarah Trimble-Oliver (Room 201)
Blackboard and Google Apps Start-up, Megan Safko-Preslin (Room 112)
Teaching in the Digital Age, Dr. Ellen Maddin (Banquet Room)
Principals’ Breakout Session, Dr. Gabriel Lofton & Dr. Jillian Darwish (Room 110)
11:45 Lunch (Banquet Room)
12:15 Session of Choice: 2A-2E (Banquet Room, Room 112, Room 1A, ILC, Room 201, Room 110)
Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom, Dr. Kami Hill & Dr. Talia Johnson (Room 1A)
Creating Community in the Middle School Classroom, Joan Pack-Rowe (ILC)
Windows Tablet Basics, Sarah Trimble-Oliver (Room 201)
Blackboard and Google Apps Start-up, Megan Safko-Preslin (Room 112)
Teaching in the Digital Age, Dr. Ellen Maddin (Banquet Room)
Principals’ Breakout Session, Dr. Gabriel Lofton & Dr. Jillian Darwish (Room 110)
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1:05 Individual Creation Stations (Banquet Room)
1:50 Feedback Session: Round One (Banquet Room, Room 112, Room 1A, ILC, Room 110)
Teaming, Banquet Room (Julia Indalecio and Cindy Sanders)
Advisory, Room 112 (Joan Pack-Rowe and Kelly Broscheid)
Tech Integration, Room 1A (Sarah Trimble-Oliver and Megan Safko-Preslin)
Social and Emotional Learning, ILC (Dr. Talia Johnson and Dr. Kami Hill)
Other, Room 110 (Deb Pendley and Sheila Radtke)
2:10 Feedback Session: Round Two (Banquet Room, Room 112, Room 1A, ILC, Room 110)
Teaming, Banquet Room (Julia Indalecio and Cindy Sanders)
Advisory, Room 112 (Joan Pack-Rowe and Kelly Broscheid)
Tech Integration, Room 1A (Sarah Trimble-Oliver and Megan Safko-Preslin)
Social and Emotional Learning, ILC (Dr. Talia Johnson and Dr. Kami Hill)
Other, Room 110 (Deb Pendley and Sheila Radtke)
2:30 Whole Group Assessment
2:45 Closing
3:00 Adjourn
Day Three: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 (continued)
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Day Three Choice Sessions
Participants will select the sessions they are most interested in attending by tearing a ticket off at
the registration table on Wednesday (Day 3) for one class for each of the two sessions. School
teams should work together to ensure that each session is attended by someone from their school
and that the information learned is shared amongst the team members.
Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom - Room 1A (Dr. Kami Hill & Dr. Talia Johnson)
During this session you will learn about and participate in activities to incorporate Social and
Emotional Learning in your classroom. Learn more about developmentally appropriate expectations
and creating opportunities for students to learn and practice self-awareness, self-management,
social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.
Windows Tablet Basics - Room 201 (Sarah Trimble-Oliver)
Still a little unsure on how to operate a Windows tablet? Get more comfortable personalizing your
start screen, using the charms bar, adding your GroupWise email account, installing apps from the
Windows store, and learning how to project your tablet screen to your projector screen in your
classroom. Learning 21st century skills will allow you to teach these skills in your classroom.
Blackboard and Google Apps Start Up - CTE (Megan Safko-Preslin; Stephanie Bradford)
Digital age instruction is a step worth taking; it’s the unknowns that give teachers the fear of using
technology. Students are encouraged to build on their 21st Century skills; therefore, CPS has
adopted Blackboard and Google Apps for Education as tools to embrace 21st Century learning in
your classroom. During this session, tips will be shared to start using these two tools successfully in
your classroom.
Teaching in the Digital Age - Banquet Room (Dr. Ellen Maddin)
Technology does not facilitate learning itself; the teacher facilitate the use of quality technology
resources in their classroom. Meaningful resources, enhancing experiences, and interactive
opportunities are created using technology to provide differentiated instruction and student-
centered environments. Start embracing the digital age by learning different technology tools to
create technology-enriched instruction.
Creating Community in the Middle School Classroom - ILC (Joan Pack-Rowe)
Students come to us with many different strengths and abilities; they also come to us with pain and
hurt in their lives. Learn how to create a classroom culture that builds on their strengths and heals
their hurts so that learning can occur. Energizers, team builders, brain gym activities and more are
all part of the planned activities that teaches community-building. Be ready to laugh, move and
have fun.
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What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)? SEL is a process of acquiring knowledge and skills related to five core competencies:
Self-awareness
Responsible
decision-
making
Relationship
skills
Social
awareness
Self-
management
1. SELF-AWARENESS What are my thoughts and feelings?
What causes those thoughts and feelings?
How can I express my thoughts and feelings respectfully?
2. SELF-MANAGEMENT What different responses can I have to an event?
How can I respond to an event as constructively as possible?
3. SOCIAL AWARENESS How can I better understand other people’s thoughts and feelings?
How can I better understand why people feel and think the way they do?
4. RELATIONSHIP SKILLS How can I adjust my actions so that my interactions with different people turn
out well?
How can I communicate my expectations to other people?
How can I communicate with other people to understand and manage their ex-
pectations of me?
5. RESPONSIBLE
DECISION-MAKING
What consequences will my actions have on myself and others?
How do my choices align?
Recognize one’s emotions,
strengths, and limitations
Manage emotions
and behaviors to
achieve one’s
goals
Make ethical,
constructive
choices about
personal and
social behavior
Form positive relationships, work
in teams, and deal effectively
with conflict
Show understanding and empathy
for others
Source: CASEL—Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
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Small Group Guidelines (These are great ground rules for all kinds of meetings!)
1. Pay attention to your state of being and to how you are talking and listen-
ing. Notice your own assumptions, reactions, contradictions, anxieties, prejudices and
projections.
2. Speak up. Notice and say what you are thinking, feeling, and wanting.
3. Remember that you don’t know the truth about anything. When you think that
you are absolutely certain about the way things are, add “in my opinion” to your
sentence. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
4. Engage with and listen to others who have a stake in the district. Seek out
people who have different, even opposing, perspectives from yours. Stretch beyond
your comfort zone.
5. Reflect on your own role within the district. Examine how what you are doing or
not doing is contributing to things being the way they are.
6. Listen with empathy. Look at the district through the eyes of others. Imagine your-
self in the shoes of the others.
7. Listen to what is being said not just by yourself and others but through all
of you. Listen to what is emerging in the district as a whole. Listen with your heart.
Speak from your heart.
8. Stop talking. Camp out beside the questions and let answers come to you.
9. Relax and be fully present. Open up your mind and heart and will. Open yourself
up to being touched and transformed.
10. Try out these suggestions and notice what happens. Sense what shifts in your
relationships with others, with yourself, and with the world. Keep on practicing.
Adapted from Solving Tough Problems by Adam Kahane
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Keynote Speaker Bio
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Dr. Martin N. Davidson is Professor of Leadership and Organizational
Behavior at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
He teaches, researches, and consults with leaders in the Americas, Europe,
Africa, and Asia on how they can use diversity strategically to generate
superior business performance. His research appears in Harvard Business
Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Research on Negotiation in
Organizations, the International Journal of Conflict Management and
several other journals and books.
In his recent book, “The End of Diversity as We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How
Leveraging Difference Can Succeed,” Davidson introduces a research-driven paradigm for
leaders frustrated or disillusioned with traditional ways of designing and implementing
diversity initiatives.
In addition to teaching leadership in Darden’s Executive Education and MBA programs, Dr.
Davidson consults with a host of Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and non-profit
organizations. He has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York
Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Public
Radio.
He earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
For more information on Dr. Davidson’s current and developing work, and to view his blog,
“In My Opinion,” visit www.leveragingdifference.com.
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