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Time Reach more teachers - challenge them - help them create PLN's Money for equipment Sustaining their jobs Helping establish a shared vision Developing appropriate PD

How we will use this info to plan our future meetings? Summarize and consolidate the goals the coaches listed and with the coaches help rank what they listed - then identify stategies to accomplish them individually and as a group. A coach chooses a strategy, implements it and then reports back to the group its effectiveness.

--Educating School Boards ideas-- Need research data on effectiveness of Cost nothing. Lose textbooks Long-term goal DIstrict wide Can be piloted Supports long-term learning Brain science More like working Define what PBL is Student presentations - multiple grade levels, some sort of community involvement Ask them an essential question about learning - How do you learn? What was the most memorable positive learning experience you have had? Chunk the presentation Need to develop different skills for students Increases creativity Do at a board retreat Tie it into CFF and their tie in Parents are source of resistance - give board members ammunition Implementing incrementally, balanced with other approaches, is an additional instructional approach Get them to relate to how their kids and grandkids are different from them, how their relationship to information is different Tie it to district goals Attendance and graduation rate Supports differentiating instruction Lifelong learners, global citizens Another thing in the instructional toolbox Use Bucks video? Can do cross curricular

**Educating the board outline** **PBL is a tool teachers are adding to their toolbox of instructional strategies** Like differentiated instruction Like cooperative learning Like lecture **Supports the goals of the district** Show district mission and goals Point to specfic items it supports Create lifelong learers **Define PBL** LSI Disk 2, 11AR1-Introduction to project-based learning Show the video to define http://www.bie.org/ OR http://www.youtube.com/user/BIEPBL Show Bucks 7-sided diagram http://www.bie.org/about/what_is_pbl Use bullets from page 4 of booklet **No additional cost to the district, on fact may save money, leverage current investments** Tie to CFF Reduce need for textbooks Doesn't require more technology Doesn't require increased annual expenditures **Present data** Instructional advantages - Disc 2 MM2- Mulitmedia 2 - What is the Reasearch Base for PBL? LSI Disc 2 MM2- Mulitmedia 2 - What is the Reasearch Base for PBL? Brain science logic Reduces dropouts, increases attendance **Preparing students for work** **Presentation by kids of a project**

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