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  NUA Summer Academy 2010 070610

  07.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Summer Academy 2010
  Themes: Equity, Justice, Simple Fairness
  Community Builder:  Dream Practice
  What is an essential practice that if all schools took it on would change the world?  Share with others.
  Practices, Beliefs and Structures
  www.poll4.com
  Yvette Jackson
  What is the Pedagogy of Confidence?
  Start with strengths!  Let’s go deep into the pedagogy of confidence.
  Reflects: The fearless expectation and support for all [...]

• NUA, NUA Intern

  NUA Leadership Meeting 100808

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Leadership Meeting 100808
  Community Builder “4 Corners”- Share a time when one of the words from the learning equation became very clear to you - when it was clear you understood it from the NUA perspective.
  L : (Understanding + Motivation) (Competence + Confidence)
  Listen for the language -Video Text
  How do we stretch?
  How do we develop [...]

• NUA, NUA Strategies

  NUA Site Visit 100208

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Site Visit 100208
  “Either you can have your learner’s attention or they can be making meaning, but never both at the same time.” –Eric Jensen
  A.M. Cohort 5

  Fast 10
  Remove all the 10s and face cards from the deck. Everyone draws a card. Then using your number on the card you need to find [...]

• NUA, NUA Intern

  NUA Intern Leadership Seminar 092608

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Notes - Intern Leadership Seminar 092608
  “Working in isolation, no teacher can single handedly effect changes that are needed…what is needed is not simply peers who support one another but also peers who debate, critique, and challenge on another to go beyond their current ideas and practices.” Sonia Nieto
  The NUA Summer Academy this year [...]

• NUA, NUA Summer Academy 08, Questions

  My Frame, Your Frame, Our Frame

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  What’s your frame? What is your point of view? How does what we know and have experienced influence our new learnings and how we interact with our environment?
  Our frames modify what we are hearing when interacting with someone and it is difficult to overcome our point of view.
  “We don’t share meanings, we [...]

• NUA, NUA Summer Academy 08

  NUA Summer Academy Final Session

  07.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Summer Academy 2008
  Final Session with Yvette Jackson
  Review and synthesis of the week.
  “All literacy should be cultural literacy”
  Key Word Notes review of Frames of Reference –
  Thinking Strategies p.109
  This ‘during’ reading strategy supports comprehension and focuses attention on important and relevant information. Students work in pairs with a Key Word Notes form. [...]

• NUA, NUA Summer Academy 08, Thinking Maps

  Thinking Maps

  07.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Summer Academy 2008 Notes
  Thinking Maps with David Hyerle
  How do you actually coach someone’s thinking?

  Starts with trust
  Coach is a learner too

  “Our own frame of reference is constantly engaging with the person we are listening to.”
  Circle Map H.I.P.

  Circle Map High Intellectual Performance, framing the conversation that is going on in your mind.
  Pair up and listen to [...]

• NUA, NUA Summer Academy 08

  Culturally Responsive Teaching

  07.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Summer Academy 2008 Notes
  Culturally Responsive Teaching with Katie Pearson
  Geneva Gay (2000) defines CRT as using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate & effective for them it teaches through and to the strengths of these students
  Gloria Ladson-Billings (1992) explains that culturally responsive teachers develop intellectual, [...]

• NUA, NUA Strategies, NUA Summer Academy 08, Uncategorized

  Structuring the Lesson Part 2

  07.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Summer Academy 2008 Albany, New York
  Structuring the Lesson with Denise Nessel
  Thoughts about designing lesson like the one she taught last year — see Summer Academy 07 Notes. Getting kids to be comfortable with “NOT” knowing the answer. We have to understand the process of uncertainty and be comfortable with it too.

  “The lesson is [...]

• NUA, NUA Strategies, NUA Summer Academy 08

  Pedagogical Flow Map

  07.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NUA Pedagogical Flow Map with Stephanie Rome and Eyka Stevens
  If only… Community builder
  “If only ________ the problems of education would be solved.”
  If only education was fully funded, racism was non-existent, and people really cared about the welfare of others the problems of education would be solved.
  Pedagogical Flow Map — Expand our common language of the [...]

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