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HENRICO 21

TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HENRICO 21:

10. 214 High Quality Lessons are posted to the Henrico 21 Site

9. Updated TIP Chart

8. Site Based Team- At minimum- Admin, ITRT, Librarian, Teacher

7. Important Dates:

• Jan. 6, 2012 – all lessons must be submitted to the site
• Jan 20, 2012- Schools decide winners- ITRTs tag
• Feb 15, 2012 – district review team meets to decide winners
• Feb 22, 2012 – award winners are notified via email
• March 28, 2012 – Henrico 21 Awards Ceremony

6. Lesson focus is on shorter, less than 150 minute lessons (single TIP category)

5. Submission process is different- upload throughout the year

4. Awards

• 3 finalists- 1 winner
• No honorable mentions
• x number overarching big lesson (project) awards per level (All TIP Categories covered)

3. School awards (21st century school and most improved) based on:

• Quality of Henrico 21 submissions
• Reflective Friends Data
• Year Long Culture and Climate

2. Ways you can support at your school

1. It’s not the contest – it’s the culture.

REFLECTIVE FRIENDS

1. Recognition of the power of the process and accomplishments

2. What does the future hold?

3. What’s new for 2011-2012?

• spring only (annually from here on out)
• same configuration 6 & 6, everyone knows (same model as the Spring 2011 site-visit)
• ITRT will work with 6 teachers throughout the year
• timeline- late February through early March- avoiding writing tests
• 1 day process
• Share data with you and team during the last block of the site-observation day
• Entire spreadsheet with data graphs and scores by teacher.
• Share scores and comments for teachers with teachers in a meeting after school aurally.
• Export scores and comments for the teachers and send to ITRTs for further conversation

4. Fall 2011 – Opportunity

• visit from Instructional Technology specialist and educational consultant
• admin teams, teacher leaders
• random extended walk-throughs
• use this to begin to paint a picture of your school in general

5. Strategies for administrators

• Draft Data Collection Tool
• Reflective Friends Web Site
• considerations for selection of 6 site-selected teachers
• ideas to incorporate into school culture
• ongoing observations and conversations (before and/or during site-visit, include lead teachers)
• schoolwide: example
• data sharing model and possibilities for use.

DIGITAL CURRICULUM

1. Goal: to wrap high quality learning objects with sound 21st century pedagogy that supports instruction of content.
2. Preparing for textbooks to phase out
3. 10 courses this year – 32 next year
4. Development Process
• backwards design
• performance based task
• 21st century learning experiences
• sample assessment



• Development Team
• project manager
• 10-15 content developers (teachers)
• specialists
• All Secondary ITRTs
• Tom, Gaynell, Debbie

6. Computational Thinking Grant- Middle School

• In conjunction with Virginia Tecn
• Planning grant stage