BR Faculty Academic Innovation 2013

Strategic Plan Objectives:
Academic Excellence & Innovation // 21st Century Instruction

1. Promote continued innovation by faculty
2. Professional Development Training Opportunities

• Departmental Monthly Meetings - Show and Tell / Pied Piper
• Monthly PD by Level - advanced, moderate, beginner
• informal teacher to teacher training

3. Promote Summer Online Courses

• Juniors & Seniors only
• 1/4 to 1/2 credit
• June 15 - August 15
• History - Specialty Class (Bumpus, Kuschel, Filo, McCarville)
• English - Writing Lab/Peer Review/Blogging (Johnson, Nuss, Zink, Kase, Neubauer)
• Robotics - 
• Math - Khan Academy Flipped Classroom at your own pace (can we advance students faster through the math curriculum?)
• Elective Greek / Latin word root class for the ACT/SAT would be a good addition, and could possible have a lot of students interested. I know of at least two universities that offer similar classes online. I would love to teach such a class. Reed  

         Pre-Class:

• Teacher presentation of information available online
• Student readings available online or electronically
• Interactive practice tests available online
   Class

•   Interactive
• Engaged
• Activity-based
• Problem-solving
• Critical thinking
• Collaborative
• Creative

        Post-Class

•  Communication
•  Blogging
• Emails
• Research
• Pace supplement
• Video
• Reading
• Online practice
• Peer support/tutoring
   Assessment

• Testing for mastery
• Individual or collective achievement of learning objectives (pace).   

 4. 2013 Faculty Exchange Program for Academic Innovation 

• Objective:
• Teacher to teacher learning: Identify best teachers, Observe, Collaborate, Learn
• Best defined: most innovative, technology integration
• 21st century emphasis - collaboration, communication, creative, critical thinking, computing
• Local - Mercy High School // Sacred Heart
• New Jersey - Bergen Catholic
• New York - Iona Prep
• Boston - Catholic Memorial 
• Cincy - Moeller High School
• Indianapolis - Cathedral
• Chicago - St. Ignatius / Loyola
• Cleveland - St. Ignatius  
• SF - Los Altos School District - Khan Academy

• Faculty volunteers:
• History - Bumpu,Kuschel, McCarville, Filo
• Math - Katz, Huber, Ingrody
• English - Zink, Kase, Nuss, Neubauer 
• Science - Barnes, DeSimone

 5. Apex Learning