7th grade
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Some (because there are always more) ‘back end/foundational structures’ necessary to implement at the start of the school year :
Build an eco-system of creativity, risk taking, voice through peer and whole class interaction which reach across in-person and remote learning platforms.
Combine an implicit constructivist environment ( in-person learning) and an explicit constructivist environment (remote learning).
Create systems for students and teacher (me) to reflect and look for evidence of learning from in-person and remote platforms.
Build routines and relationships of our day to day studio classroom which is agile and can be moved easy to and from in-person and remote learning.
Seems like what we already do? Well, sort of. Why something labeled different? Because it is. Top to bottom how we start school this year is different. ‘Foundational / back end’ structures are foundational and unseen but seen. We, the students and I, know that these structures and 'do business' within them. The structures are in the back end. We do our students and ourselves a huge serving of respect by creating structures/frameworks that hold space for safety, clarity and creativity. The endeavor here is to reflect on what needs to be programmed into the back end of classroom day to day to build an eco-system which is for and about student learning. This isn’t about what we do. This will happen, organically and through cultivation. The foundational systems are about how we do it. In the next weeks, each of the above ‘foundational / back end structures’ will be explored.
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