4. iZone360 Design Showcase
Bridges For Learning Network
The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria
Principal Laura Mitchell
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5. Smart Use
of Technology
Inquiry-Based Personalized
Curriculum Education
6. iZone360 Design Showcase
CFN 411: The Innovative Schools Network
New Design High School
Principal Scott Conti
5
7. New Design High
School Future
• Products, experiences, activities, skills, and belief
MILESTONES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING
State Design • Intellectual, academic, and socio-emotional
• Markers of growth in critical thinking and maturity
NDHS will be a
• Learner-centered instruction
TEACHER AS COACH school where
• Milestones for emotional growth
every student
• Individual, small group, and
IN THE BEEHIVE
• Activities aligned to milestones full group instruction
learns to make
• Direct, guided, and
smart choices.
independent learning
• Use of formative and periodic
skill-based assessments
• Growing collection of materials and video
IN THE CLOUD
• Opportunities for students and adults to see
colleagues’ practices online
• Mechanisms for instructional leadership
team to give feedback and support
9. CITY AS SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL
CFN107
CAS graduates will be able to…
Apply Their Knowledge Communicate Effectively Work Well in Groups Get Things Done
…by meeting students …through experiential …by developing strong
where they are learning relationships
• Erasing barriers that might cause quitting • Meaningful learning • Sense of trust between adults in building,
(including emotional, medical and legal opportunities students, and parents
support) • Multiple ways of • Acceptance and empowerment of staff
• Not giving students a reason to stop demonstrating mastery and students
• Redefining success and providing more • Learning from experts • Choice for staff and students for what and
avenues to success how to teach and what and how to learn
• Providing numerous opportunities for
students to start over and build on their
mistakes
…accelerated through innovations such as…
New uses of technology to Partnership with Customized spaces and
facilitate personalized New Tech to help schedules to ensure students
learning anywhere and create PBL in the have the right instruction, at
anytime classrooms the right time, in the right
place, in the right way
11. Academy of Urban Planning
Current State Future State
Class Schedules
45 Min College
Classes, 5x We believe that the high school experience should emulate Type
per week college as closely as possible. Our classes will be different Schedule
lengths depending on their needs and will not meet every day.
Students will have project work time built into their schedules.
Teacher Instructional Model Project
Centered Through project based learning, we will create an environment Based
where Teachers are Mentors, and Students are Creators. Learning
Building on their knowledge of the urban environment, students
can serve as co-designers of the curriculum and inform project
development.
Content Content Integration Multi-
Specific Disciplinary,
We will create an environment where students can articulate
Classes theme-
competencies and pursue them through a variety of pathways
including courses, collaborative/integrated projects, and integrated
individualized projects. experiences
Mr. Rodney Orji. Principal
CFN 404
New Tech Network
12. iZone360 Design Showcase
CFN 532
Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship
Principal William Frackelton
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