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TOOLS & RESOURCES JOB BOARD 50CAN The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now (50CAN) (link) is a nonprofit organization that works at the local level to advocate for high-quality education for all kids, regardless of their address. Operating seven state-based CAN chapters, they span the country—Rhode Island, Minnesota, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 50CAN provides tools and trainings for new advocates seeking to build bottom-up support for education policy change. Some of these include: an in-depth guide for building local advocacy campaigns, an online course on education policy, and an Advocacy Essentials workshop that focuses on the basic skills and knowledge that local advocacy leaders will need to succeed. For those burgeoning local advocates interested in a more in-depth dive, 50CAN has launch YouCAN, a 10-month paid program that takes trainees through their step-by-step process of strategizing and developing winning campaigns. In addition focus on training opportunities and materials, 50CAN boasts an extensive library of key policy research and reports, as well as a number of case studies from their own trials and successes. The 50CAN Guide to Building Advocacy Campaigns (link) 50CAN Policy Library (link) K-12 OER Collaborative The K-12 OER Collaborative (link) is a state-led collaborative non-profit organized to produce high-quality, standards aligned, full course Mathematics and English Language Arts courses licensed as Open Educational Resources (OER) for kindergarten through twelfth grades. The Collaborative is set to produce a curriculum of 28 courses supporting both integrated and traditional paths for high school mathematics. When completed these courses will be consistent and highly coherent across lessons, grades, and even across subject areas. The Collaborative has an intense focus on intentionally designed supports for English language learners, whether new arrivals or long-term learners. In addition to making its courses freely available directly to educators and learners globally, the Collaborative plans to proactively market these offerings to school districts by creating innovative bundles that will combine the freely available content with aligned professional services, digitally enhanced print versions, or fully digital implementation support services and more. Let us know if you have a job opening and are looking for a practioner with a learnercentered mindset Send job description here, and we will include it in the next 3 issues. • • • • The K-12 OER Collaborative is seeking a Quality Assurance Director, Middle School Mathematics to lead quality assurance and piloting efforts, ensuring that the materials are aligned to standards and meet the needs of teachers, students, and families. Responsibilities • Lead a team of teacher-reviewers to evaluate and provide feedback on instructional materials as they are created. • Serve as first point of contact for reviewers with questions about the CCSS, the review tools and rubrics, and the instructional materials. • Lead piloting efforts, including coordinating with pilot schools and districts. • Collect and analyze feedback from pilot classrooms. Communicate results to the content developers to facilitate improvements to the materials. Qualifications • 5+ years of classroom experience teaching middle school mathematics • Expertise in CCSS for Mathematics content and practice standards • Demonstrated experience using EQuIP and IMET • Experience training and leading groups of educators Location Work can be done remotely with travel for trainings, reviewer calibration, and pilot coordination.Compensation dependent on experience. Benefits package included. Equal opportunity employer. Submit cover letter and resume: karl.nelson@k12oercollaborative.org Full job description available at: www.k12oercollaborative.org PIONEERING ISSUE 5 • JANUARY 14, 2016 • EDUCATION REIMAGINED • 12
ON OUR BOOKSHELF WORTH YOUR TIME The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning by O’Donnell Wicklund Pigozzi and Peterson, Bruce Mau, and David W. Orr Written to inspire educators, parents, and others with children in their lives, The Third Teacher considers the impact of environment on learning. With recommendations ranging from installing height-adjustable, mobile seating to using architecture and curricula to highlight unique geological features, this book lays out 79 ideas for enhancing learning by improving the learning environment. Through interviews, facts, statistics, and stories, the authors encourage us to recognize place and space as essential elements of learning. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft How can we change the physical space around us to ignite creativity and encourage communication? In Make Space, Scott Doorley, Scott Witthoft, and the d.school at Stanford provide simple tools for making spaces more collaborative and creative. Included in this guide are clever tips, scenarios, case studies, and templates that can be used by educators and parents to design comfortable and enjoyable learning environments that foster creativity. Does a messy room create potential to build on past ideas or does the clutter get in the way of new work? Making Space addresses this and many other considerations of building and experimenting with physical spaces. The Maker’s Manual: A Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution by Andrea Maietta and Paolo Aliverti Andrea Maietta and Paolo Aliverti understand that transforming ideas into reality can be intimidating. Their guide, The Maker’s Manual, aims to make taking the first step easier by introducing a variety of cuttingedge technologies that can bring to life innovative ideas. Educators can use the colorful illustrations and thorough explanations of topics, such as 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, and laser cutting, to incorporate relevant and practical tools into their library of problem-solving and teaching resources. The Superintendent Who Turned Around A School District At Jennings School District, they changed how they served their kids and their community. Under the strong leadership of Superintendent Tiffany Anderson, the district sought ways to meet the challenges of poverty facing their learners—no mattter what it took. Read here The Best Equity in Education is Personalization Giving learners control of the time, path, pace, and place of their learning, Innovations Early College High School is on a journey towards personalized education and the promise of true educational equity. Watch here Next Generation Career Pathways: A Manufacturing Case Study “Blended, personalized, adaptive, immersive, applied, work-based, and grounded in a competency-based approach…” Imagine if all of these words came together in a learning experience. In Tom Vander Ark and Mary Ryerse’s report, they do. Read here The Simple Human Interactions That Make Learning Possible Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning Network is full of different, fun, exciting, and vibrant opportunities for learning. They offer rich open-walled experiences. But, another element shines through just as much: socially embedded. Read here PIONEERING ISSUE 5 • JANUARY 14, 2016 • EDUCATION REIMAGINED • 13
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