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Mobile Learning and the Common Core

A creative process that helps you design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. The toolkit provides you with instructions to explore Design Thinking.

Like digital learning in general, blended learning is flexible and comes in many shapes and sizes. In their 2012 report, "Classifying K-12 Blended Learning," the Innosight Institute identifies four models schools are currently using to blend learning. The following is adapted from their report.

This site is meant to be used as a resource that all of us as members of the Beaver Local Learning Community can use as a professional development tool.  Through the use of video, suggested resources, comments, and reflection this site will allow the district to have a common gathering space with common ideas as we move ahead through the journey of becoming a 21st Century school and moving into our new school in the not to distant future.  

Monday we're holding a conversation about blended learning.  Following is a list of some of the questions we'll discuss and some resources for developing answers.

QR codes, also known as Quick Response codes, are starting to pop up everywhere, and now they are finding their way into classrooms.  Here are some QR code resources and links.

Edcamp Cleveland schedule

The Project-Based Learning designs on this website were created by West Virginia teachers who worked with the WVDE Office of Instruction through participation in the Teacher Leadership Institute, the Secondary PBL project, content-specific professional de

Everything BYOD! Here are some resources to help start a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiative.

Mobile device resource links

"My teachers and I are currently having discussions about grading practices, standards-based grading, and everything in between. I do not know that we will ever adopt a truly standards-based grading system, but I believe we are on our way to making our grading system more meaningful."

"Ryan McLane's blog, principal of Utica Junior High School went from an Effective Rating to Excellent with Distinction in 2012."

"Want to spend class time wisely? Formative assessments can help. The trick: taking the time to analyze the data and put it to use. You can do this in any subject area, but we'll start with an example from teaching math."

"J. Richard Hackman's Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances (2002, Harvard Business School Press). Hackman, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University, has been studying teams for more than 40 years. This is his first book-length monograph on the subject drawing together much of this work into a clear and compelling presentation of team management theory. His focus is not on leadership teams, per se (and definitely not on social movement leaders). Rather, his research seeks to explain the effectiveness of work teams-groups of people in a variety of employment settings (from airlines to orchestras) who work together to produce some output (from successful flights to Mozart symphonies)."

"My teachers and I are currently having discussions about grading practices, standards-based grading, and everything in between. I do not know that we will ever adopt a truly standards-based grading system, but I believe we are on our way to making our grading system more meaningful."

"Collective efficacy is the shared perceptions of teachers in a school that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have positive effects on students. The Collective Efficacy Scale (CE-Scale) is a 21-item scale, which measures the collective efficacy of a school."

"High-functioning learning communities are driven by the core beliefs detailed in their mission, vision, values, and goals statements. Working together, parents, principals, and teachers define priorities that carry great implications for instruction. Those priorities should play a role in all of the choices made by a school-including choices about the kinds of technology to incorporate into classrooms. Use this handout to ensure that your technology plans align with your school's mission, vision, values and goals."

"In a time when technology is drastically changing the way that we work, learn, and play, it is essential that school leaders have a clear plan for driving digital change in their classrooms, districts and communities. "