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2024 Summer Institute

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Friday Morning

thinkPortal Lesson Recommendations from Cohort Debrief

 

 What ONE thing are you most excited to try/share? 

The “Why”​
  • Your equity origin story​
  • The story of “the way it is”​
  • The case for being purposefully unrealistic​
  • Driving in the Park​
  • Stop meeting kids where they are​
  • Access to engaging, challenging, grade level or above Tier 1 instruction IS equity
The “How”​
  • Asking Better Questions (leveled questions)​
  • Analysis from Different Perspectives (DRAAW+C)​
  • Mistake Analysis (which wrong is more right, what would Joe Schmo do?)​
  • Informed Opinion (“what questions do you have?”)​
  • Stakeholder Analysis (Impact vs. Interest)​
  • WICK​
  • WISE
The “What”​
  • Playing the Game, Slaying the Game, Getting Slayed​
  • Silent Puzzle​
  • Life-hack sales pitch contest​
  • Family Feud-style questions: “If we surveyed 100 educators, what is the top reason ___”​
  • Pre-Mortem: “Imagine __ was a giant failure. What went wrong?”​
  • Defining/Redefining Success (Beyond “Full Potential”)​
  • Letter to yourself​

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Practical Moves for a Powerful Movement

Before the Learning Reflection

Before registration on Wednesday at 1:30, please complete the Before the Learning Reflection. We’ll take this survey again at the end of the institute and use this for reflection and storytelling about our experiences. We appreciate everyone taking ~10~ minutes to share your responses.  

Pre-Institute Readings & Reflections

Read this article: Reaching the Mountaintop

Reflect:

  • What is one example of an absurd injustice impacting your students or community that we’ve been conditioned to believe is normal?

  • Can you think of a time when you, or a colleague, challenged an injustice with an intentionally “unrealistic” solution? If not, what is the most common reason why colleagues in your building or district don’t pursue the “unrealistic” solutions?

Listen to this podcast episode: Should Not Enough Get More Love?  

Reflect:

  • What example of “not enough” scarcity comes to mind when you reflect on your role, your campus, or the district? What does it feel like to imagine infinite possibilities instead?
  • We will obsess during the institute with shifting our convergent thinking to divergent thinking. To prepare, reflect on one way this past year that you practiced divergent thinking by leveraging resources you already had. Think about the connections, collaboration, and empathy that were required to make the impossible possible. Let that example fuel your thinking about current areas of scarcity that will need some divergent thinking during the institute.

Read this article: From Accountability to Inevitability 

Reflect:

  • Think about a time in your life when someone else (or a system) made your success inevitable. What had to happen in order for that to be true?
  • What is one area where you’ve been relying on accountability for results, where you really want to make the shift to inevitability?

This work isn’t about making moves.
It’s about building a movement.

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