What are methods that can be used to make learning more personalized?

To learn about the methods of the Big Picture Learning Schools, go to this PDF

http://www.doe.k12.de.us/cms/lib09/DE01922744/Centricity/Domain/151/DEMET2013.pdf

Here is another place to download the documents

PALABRA program is linked to the Big Picture work through Enrique Gonzalez... "When you start to personalize the education of a young person, you think up other ways to build character....like PALABRA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP5luWxyzV0

Jerry Tello created Palabra (which Enrique Gonzalez used at Frida Kahlo and Hihgland Park high schools in Los Angeles).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91P1dOT1pqY

HONOR WOMEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMfj_FwslIw

Hombres Jovenes con Palabra (Young Men with Credible Word)
The Hombres Jovenes con Palabra is a 10 session culturally based prevention/education program that focuses on male responsibility, pregnancy prevention and relationship violence prevention.

Jerry at minute 6:

Honor women -- our mothers, daughters, companeras, grandmothers.
We cannot truly be men until we honor and respect women.
Honor their sacredness.
Walk beside them.
They gave us life.    They sacrificed, they lent us their blood, They give us their breathe, they feed us with their bodies.  They nurture us with their milk.













The PALABRA program is used in Highland Park High School

Here's a list of links about the Big Picture efforts

How to introduce Littky's book and the 10 Expecations to a teacher or parent....

1.  The Free chapters for the Littky book

www.TinyURL.com/LittkyChapter1

www.TinyURL.com/LittkyChapter4

2.  The Interview by Dennis Littky on NPR in April 2005

http://tinyurl.com/littkyradio

3.  The TEN EXPECTATIONS

https://sites.google.com/site/transformteachingbooks/videos-by-dr-littky/the-ten-expectations-leaving-to-learn

http://tinyurl.com/washor10

TinyURL.com/10expectations10

4. The video about 10 expectations   LeavingToLearn.org

http://tinyurl.com/washorvideo10

5. The Letter from "Las Madres" of Big Picture

www.TinyURL.com/LasMadresVideo

www.TinyURL.com/LasMadresblog

Arts for a Better Tomorrow created two videos that support the Big Picture message about "PERSONALIZE the school work"

https://vimeo.com/125590656


https://www.facebook.com/ARTSforaBetterTomorrow

Like the Facebook page

Start with a LIKE at their Facebook page

Then watch the video that Jose Yenque created with students in Tijuana and Highland Park High School

Luis Ruan and Positive Programs that Heal Young People

Film programs that are effective

Palabra (based in solutions, programs that help young people)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLSmE4hQtg


People who overcame great odds....



Let's go "beyond limits."


Comment by a teacher in Florida:  There is a tradition in Switzerland and Germany called "there's more in you."   That phrase sounds like "beyond limits."  These programs appear to have something in common about showing young people how to discover their resilience and strong positive ways of living and acting as agents or strength and purpose in their families and communities.   



The fundraiser to support the book

"Las Madres" apoyan "The Big Picture http://tinyurl.com/lasmadresvideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRd3baGZXHU

TinyURL.com/LasMadresVideo

http://tinyurl.com/lasmadresvideo

… Estoy súper contenta con el entusiasmo de los niños. Aliéntalos y ayúdalos mucho. 

Yo ahora casualmente estoy leyendo un libro que Mario tradujo y que quiero que leas. 

Es de un súper monstruo americano que se opone a la educación tradicional; él ha creado unas escuelas increíbles que, básicamente se caracterizan por ser pequeñas, personalizadas y, por enseñar, 

no los acostumbrados  conocimientos fríos de asignaturas desligadas, sino herramientas vitales como el deseo, entusiasmo y necesidad de conocimientos, además de respeto multidireccional (y en esto incluyo respeto y confianza  en uno mismo, tan carente en estas vulnerable edades). 

La verdad es que me siento muy identificada con este libro: como estudiante, define mis carencias; como madre, mis deseos, y como profesora mis expectativas (alguna que otra vez me ha tocado enseñarle  algo a alguien y me he sentido profe, sin mencionar que ante Sofía lo soy día tras día). 

Me parece genial Michi, tanto que, me encantaría que Sofía pudiera estudiar en una escuela así; ya me dirás cuando lo leas.

 

Con cariño,

Arlenis

https://sites.google.com/site/transformteachingbooks/home/the-big-picture-by-dr-littky-in-spanish/comments-by-arlenis-de-la-cruz

… I am very happy to hear about your children. Encourage and help them very much. In that same line, I am currently reading a book translated by Mario, and I want you to read it. The book was written by a great American who opposes traditional education; he has created some incredible schools. They are characterized by being small and personalized. They teach not the usual cold and detached contents of common subjects; instead, they arm the students with vital tools such as the desire, enthusiasm, and the need of learning. They also emphasize on multidirectional respect (this includes respect and trust towards themselves which are normally so lacking during this vulnerable age). The truth is that I feel quite connected to that book now; as a student, it defines my gaps; as a mother, my desires; and as a tutor, my expectations.  (Sometimes, I have had to teach other

YOUTUBE VIDEO

people; ever since I am a mother, I am an everyday teacher).  I just think it’s a brilliant book!So much so that I wish Sofia could someday go to a school like his. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

With love,

Arlenis. 

https://sites.google.com/site/transformteachingbooks/home/mothers-for-the-big-picture

20 reasons to attend the annual BIG BANG clebration and conference, the 20th year of the start of Met Center in Rhode Island

The advertising campaign to lead up to New Orleans and the BIG BANG

GO TO THE POWER OF ONE CLICK

Thi sis a clever way to draw attention over several days to the same event.

If there are 20 reasons to go, and each reason appeals to a different personality or a different type of person, we might get a lot more people to show up.... good idea!... it is also the 20th anniversary of the school in Providence, R.I.


Someday, you might be in charge of an event or you might be asked to help think about "how do we attract more people to come to our picnic or fundraising event?"

WOW... what kind of people will we
remember as our classmates?
What will our classmates be doing 20 years
from now?

You can think back on this blog post and the clear way that the Big Picture Learning people tried to appeal and call on a number of types of people to show up.

Let's to to a separate page and get
to know more about this event.GO TO THE POWER OF ONE CLICK

What is the power of the ADVISORY SYSTEM at the Met?

You can find out HERE

Nice idea to bring people together FACE TO FACE

Someday, I want to be in this room.
I want to be here even if I'm watching
on YOUTUBE

YOUtube.com/BPLearning

CLICK on Facebook to get more likes for the Big Picture Learning.

GO TO THE POWER OF ONE CLICK

PHhtos from the Big Picture Facebook are collected here. Scan through and find some reasons to learn more about THE BIG PICTURE SCHOOLS

This book has its own YOUTUBE channel

Visit the list of 10 question that parents can ask...

Look at the FACEBOOK PHOTOS from Big Picture.  I've collected a bunch of them that are related to these topics...

What did this student experience?

what is a moebius strip?

What does it mean to TRUST students?

What does GOING DEEP mean?

Who is Kenb Robinson?
See TED TALKS CREATIVE  KEN ROBINSON
 and see what you find...

Steve was in this room in December 2013.
I found Dan Pink's book in this room.
The book is on the wall on the right side, out of the photo

SMALL SCHOOLS

PERSONAL LEARNING PLANS

INITIATIVE

ENTREPRENEURING

and other themes.  

PROJECTS



Let's be clear.

The FOCUS ON PROJECTS

the AFTER-SCHOOL and WEEKEND meetings between teachers and students

the focus on WHAT IS YOUR PASSION? and "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TODAY?" are tat the school in West Hollywood because Steve heard the NPR radio interview with Dr. Littky in April 2005

bought the book and read it in July 2005

visited the school in Providence in Nov. 2005

Made a documentary about that visit (with the famous SHOE lesson witgh the Bertholdt Brecht poem about Labor and the Workers December 2005

visited Frida Kahlo High School and met Enrique Gonzalez in October 2009

visited Met Center again in 2011 to learn about the Entrepreneurship center

visited Met Center again in December 2013 to learn about snow at the Met and to get a cool poster from the PR department.

Obtained the right to translate the book into Spanish (with the help of Mario LLorente) in 2013

visited with Entrique Gonzalez in 2013, Feb., in Highland Park High School

unveiled the Spanish language Facebook page about the Spnaish edition of the book in September 2014

and created a series of projects with students at West Hollywood Private School in Hollywood, FL in August 2015.


All of these steps led to the creation of the blog about projects at WHPS

ProjectsHollywood.blogspot.com

See the "Woman on the Moon" project (one of our students might want to visit the moon... and live and work on the moon!  Wow

She will study math, science, history and language arts (and another language) using the moon and her goal as the focus... 

GO DEEP

What does GOING DEEP mean?

That's another theme that runs in these photos.

See what you can grab by sanning these photos.   Then text to Steve the main points that you received .. what did you pick up?


When you talk to your advisor by his first name, you are less formal.  

You are more in charge of your learning when you have a colleague, someone who is a mentor and a guide on the side.

The TEN EXPECTATIONS video -- what can students and parents expect?

A small book mentions the TEN EXPECTATIONS video.  I hope you will visit the video, too.

Search ten expectations leaving to learn youtube and go to 
www.TinyURL.com/AskTeachers10

http://www.bigpicture.org/leaving-to-learn/ Cada 12 segundos un estudiante deja la escuela en Estados Unidos

Eliot Washor y Charles Mojkowski tienen una solución probada para detener la ola; salir a aprender. Cuando los estudiantes salen de los edificios escolares al acecho de oportunidades de aprendizajes en situaciones del mundo real, y luego dichas experiencias se combinan con el aprendizaje de las aulas, los resultados son realmente transformadores. La motivación, el compromiso, y la creatividad se disparan. Los estudiantes, de repente, no desean causar baja porque finalmente la escuela importa. Es posible mantener a los estudiantes en las escuelas y prepararlos para la vida más allá de la graduación, si les entregamos experiencias de aprendizaje auténticas que les interesen. El primer paso consiste en eliminar las barreras entre la escuela y el mundo exterior. El primer paso es permitirles salir a aprender.

En este provocativo libro, los autores Eliot Washor y Charles Mojkowski nos muestran que debajo de los preocupantes niveles de deserción escolar en el país, acecha un problema más insidioso: la desvinculación estudiantil de la escuela y del aprendizaje productivo y profundo. Para mantener a los estudiantes vinculados a la escuela y al aprendizaje productivo hasta su graduación, la escuela ha de proveer experiencias en las que los estudiantes llevan a cabo parte de su aprendizaje
fuera de la escuela, y que al mismo tiempo sea parte formal de sus programas de estudio. Todos los estudiantes necesitan salir de la escuela—frecuentemente, regularmente, y, por supuesto, temporalmente—para permanecer en la escuela y persistir en su aprendizaje. Para lograr lo anterior, la escuela debe combinar el aprendizaje académico con el experimental, permitiéndole así a los estudiantes traer conocimientos del mundo real a la escuela; donde dicho conocimiento ha de ser reconocido, medido, y recibir crédito. Aprender fuera de la escuela como complemento del aprendizaje escolar hace posible una profunda vinculación al aprendizaje riguroso.

Traduccion por M. Llorente

The Ten Expectations

10 TEMAS EDUCACIONALES Y SUS INTERROGANTES

 

Relaciones 

¿Soy sólo otra cara en el aula? ¿O saben mis maestros sobre mí y mis intereses y talentos? ¿Me ayudan los profesores a formar relaciones con sus compañeros y adultos que pudieran servir como modelos y entrenadores? 

 

Relevancia 

¿Es el trabajo sólo una serie de aros para saltar? ¿O es el trabajo relevante a mis intereses? ¿Mis maestros me ayudan a entender cómo mi aprendizaje contribuye a mi comunidad? 

 

Tiempo 

¿Se supone que aprenda a un ritmo decidido por mi maestro? ¿O puedo 

aprender a mi propio ritmo? 

¿Hay tiempo para aprender a ser profundo y amplio? 

 

Plazos 

¿Todos los estudiantes tienen que aprender las cosas en la misma secuencia o puedo aprender en un orden que se ajusta a mi estilo o intereses de aprendizaje? 

 

Juego 

¿Existe siempre la presión de comportamiento? ¿O tengo la oportunidad de explorar, cometer errores y aprender de ellos? ¿Tengo la oportunidad de juguetear y hacer conjeturas? 

 

Práctica 

¿Aprendemos algo y luego nos movemos inmediatamente a la siguiente habilidad? ¿O podemos comprometernos en la práctica profunda y sostenida de las habilidades que tenemos que aprender? 

 

Elección 

¿Estoy siguiendo el mismo camino que todos los estudiantes? ¿O tengo 

opciones reales acerca de qué, cómo y cuándo voy a aprender y demostrar mis habilidades? 

 

Autenticidad 

¿Es mi trabajo solo una serie de páginas? ¿O son mi aprendizaje y trabajo considerados importantes en la comunidad?  

 

Desafío 

¿Consiste el deber escolar solo en completar tareas? ¿O sentiré las exigencias de mis deberes? ¿Estoy realmente intentado alcanzar estándares elevados de calidad? 

 

Aplicación 

¿Es mi aprendizaje solo teórico? ¿O podré aplicar lo aprendido en el marco del mundo real?

https://sites.google.com/site/transformteachingbooks/videos-by-dr-littky/the-ten-expectations-leaving-to-learn

SOURCE:  LeavingToLearn.org

Cada 12 segundos un estudiante deja la escuela en Estados Unidos

http://www.bigpicture.org/leaving-to-learn/   
Cada 12 segundos un estudiante deja la escuela en Estados Unidos

CLICK

Eliot Washor y Charles Mojkowski tienen una solución probada para detener la ola; salir a aprender. Cuando los estudiantes salen de los edificios escolares al acecho de oportunidades de aprendizajes en situaciones del mundo real, y luego dichas experiencias se combinan con el aprendizaje de las aulas, los resultados son realmente transformadores. La motivación, el compromiso, y la creatividad se disparan.  Los estudiantes, de repente, no desean causar baja porque finalmente la escuela importa. Es posible mantener a los estudiantes en las escuelas y prepararlos para la vida más allá de la graduación, si les entregamos experiencias de aprendizaje auténticas que les interesen.  El primer paso consiste en eliminar las barreras entre la escuela y el mundo exterior. El primer paso es permitirles salir a aprender.

En este provocativo libro, los autores Eliot Washor y Charles Mojkowski nos muestran que debajo de los preocupantes niveles de deserción escolar en el país, acecha un problema más insidioso: la desvinculación estudiantil de la escuela y del aprendizaje productivo y profundo.  Para mantener a los estudiantes vinculados a la escuela y al aprendizaje productivo hasta su graduación, la escuela ha de proveer experiencias en las que los estudiantes llevan a cabo parte de su aprendizaje fuera de la escuela, y que al mismo tiempo sea parte formal de sus programas de estudio. Todos los estudiantes necesitan salir de la escuela—frecuentemente, regularmente, y, por supuesto, temporalmente—para permanecer en la escuela y persistir en su aprendizaje. Para lograr lo anterior, la escuela debe combinar el aprendizaje académico con el experimental, permitiéndole así a los estudiantes traer conocimientos del mundo real a la escuela; donde dicho conocimiento ha de ser reconocido, medido, y recibir crédito. Aprender fuera de la escuela como complemento del aprendizaje escolar hace posible una profunda vinculación al aprendizaje riguroso.

Traduccion por M. Llorente

What are you chasing? (a question from Weekend Marketplace Radio)... how about "Projects in Schools"?

"The Chase" ... Marketplace Radio (weekend)

THE CHASE

The NPR Interview in 2005

"What are you chasing?"  I'm chasing "Projects in Schools."   I was bitten by a book called The Big Picture in 2005 and I've spent ten years chasing the idea that school could be a place where students pursue interests...  Here's a quote from an interview with the

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author, Dennis Littky:   "When you find out what the kid's interests are and you teach to those interests, it's no longer school."   You can find this interview by searching "npr dennis littky small school" and you'll get to >>>   NPR Interview   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4618720   ...   I've been chasing the attention of parents, students, principals and other teachers.  

Could this idea of "let kids do projects about stuff they want to learn" really take hold?   Read the first page of Littky's book and I think you will agree.   www.TinyURL.com/LittkyChapter1.   In the past ten years I've created posters and "dancing word" videos using Littky's quote.  I've asked volunteers to translate the first chapter into Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic and French.   These efforts were piecemeal... just the first 32 pages of the book.

Portuguese translation

In two weeks the entire book will be available in SPANISH, thanks to my colleague Mario Llorente of Miami.  ....   I've posted some posters and projects that my students have created using this Big Picture idea...  

LOOK AT MINUTE 24

There is a supporting theme from Ken Robinson, the advocate of creativity and "a change in the paradigm" (a revolution in education).  His TED talks have millions of views, but there's a 28-minute talk that he gave to a conference that has just 47,000 views where he has this statement (which is now available as a poster):  IF YOU ARE THE TEACHER, YOU ARE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR THOSE KIDS.

Here's the poster...

Thanks for listening and how about a click?   www.TransformTeaching.org   Steve McCrea  (954) 646 8246   steveEnglishTeacher@gmail.com   

Cricket Project

Here are links to some of the projects that my students have put together.

Translation by Rehab

The Big Picture (chapter 1) in Arabic

The theme of "the chase" made me pause this evening on May 10, 2015... This has been a ten-year quest to get the book fully translated (since hearing the NPR interview in April 2015)...and now I'm standing on the side of the road, panting, realizing that part of the chase is completed......  thank you, Marketplace Weekend, for this moment...   SteveEnglishTeacher@gmail.com
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