The Climate Justice League is a small cohort of teachers that work together to learn about the intersections of climate change and social justice concerns. This professional learning community was designed and facilitated in partnership with Stacy Meyer and Educational Service District 112. Through a series of virtual learning sessions and asynchronous work, members of the Climate Justice League explore various aspects of these topics. Additionally, teachers learn from area experts who share their insights at synchronous sessions. Based on these collaborative experiences, teachers practice facilitating some form of justice-centered learning with their students. At the final session, Climate Justice League teachers bring student work samples and/or artifacts from their lessons to share with the group and reflect on their personal learning as well as students’ learning.

This course is set up as a way to provide resources and practice with understanding, using, and creating OER. It contains resources and tasks originally created for the Open Resources Fellowship Professional Learning Community at Mountain Heights Academy--an all online charter school for grades 8-12 in the state of Utah. This course focuses on using the OER Commons for finding and remixing resources, and authoring original OER with an emphasis on providing opportunities for "next-gen" or student-created OER.

The Equitable Grading Practices PLC is structured for school-based teams to spend time reflecting on their own grading practices, analyzing artifacts, engaging in dialogue around learnings, experiences, and research related to grading, and collaboratively developing an equitable grading action plan. Each Module will include readings to engage with and discuss, independent activities to support in reflection of grading practices, and collaborative tasks to lean into with your PLC.

Adam Randall and his team at both Henley Middle School and Henley High School launched with great success, the piloting of the YouScience platform https://www.youscience.com/ . This platform is a specialized assessment process that engages students in brain games for nearly an hour total and provides detailed results of the students natural abilities, innate skills and examples of how the student might most successfully utilize their aptitudes and interests in preparation for career selection. During the 2020-2021 school year, Henley was 1 of 7 schools in Southern Oregon to start the 18 month pilot. Join us to hear Adam share 3 important aspects of the YouScience implementation process:   What to do prior to delivering the brain games   How to best deliver the brain games   How to best engage with your students with the results of their brain games