Welcome to Johnston County Public Schools IGNITE2018 Symposium! We are excited to embark on this journey with you. This year’s event is designed around 4 Quests. Our hope is that if you follow a Quest over the 2 days your understanding will be deepened and you will find more relevance to your practice. There are 3 kinds of sessions: Connect (Edcamp style sessions) Learn (content delivery sessions) Innovate (implementation planning sessions). Begin by selecting one of 4 Quest Options:
SBTL (Standards Based Teaching and Learning)
CORE (CORE Instruction)
Learner Agency
Learner Centered Practices
Here is a link to the Quest Cards that might be helpful in seeing the specific sessions by Quest.
To begin crafting your quest you will need to follow these steps.
Step 1: Select all your required sessions (filter by "All Quests" to see these options) - Opening, Lunch, Toolbox, Innovate and Closing Sessions
Step 2: Select your Learn sessions, please use the "filter by type" option on the right hand side to help you plan the remainder of your quest by topic.
IMPORTANT NOTE: some options are in multiple quests - they are denoted on the quest cards, but to see those in sched you will need to use the filter that says "Multiple Quests." Pick from those first, they will fill up fast.
Step 3: In order to earn the 1.5 Digital Learning Competencies, your schedule should include 1 Connect, 5 Learn Sessions and 1 Innovate session (Note: you must also submit an artifact of implementation and a brief reflection after the symposium)
Description: It is time to bring the love back to reading! Through mClass, EOG, and iReady testing, our students have lost the joy of reading. #classroombookaday coupled with notice and note and book head heart will bring that love back to our students. Notice and Note and Disrupting Thinking (book head heart) were both written by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst, who are well known for the work they do with reading research. They have found that having students discuss books in a way that is more meaningful to them, not only is great for personal character development, but also for their lives as a reader.
In this session, participants will learn more about these strategies as well as ways to find books that will be meaningful to their students. We will discuss ways teachers can find time to implement these ideas in their daily schedules, for example, implementing a morning meeting time.
Rationale: Our hope is that teachers realize the benefit of read aloud. We hope that participants will begin using the Notice and Note signposts as well as the Book Head Heart question stems when having conversations about books with their students. These conversations will help foster social emotional growth with our students and will help build classroom communities.
