Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 | Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall

Today, Molly will be going through the Exhibitions schedule, expectations, jobs, and audience expectations.  Exhibitions of Learning are something that other schools do not have.  It is something that makes us unique to have everyone in our school present their learning to the community every semester of their high school career.  This is daunting, but also amazing and fulfilling.  Enjoy the experience.  It is alright to feel stressed, overwhelmed, or even scared.  This may be your first time presenting something in public.  We are all here to support one another.  

Announcements

• Check your Exhibition Time
• Check the Job List on the Exhibition page on the Blog (where you already went for the Exhibitions Schedule). 
• What job(s) are you equipped to complete?  
• Comment on the time and role you want to fill in for on the EoL Volunteer Schedule.  
• More details will come from the Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall on Thursday morning from Molly.  
• Please do not email Molly with questions, save them until that point in time.
•  As you are completing your Exhibition of Learning presentation (slides, videos, pdfs, etc.) Please submit them to Presentation Submission form.  A submission for Links to websites and other media has been added.  Youtube will stretch the bandwidth of the JMKAC so keep your links to your relevant work.  If you have a group of pictures, make a slide presentation of them to make it easier to present.
• We want to ensure your documents are successfully uploaded and prepared.  To avoid problems with chromebooks and WIFI at JMKAC, we will provide the needed technology on site.  If you plan to bring backups for documents, please use a Flashdrive. 
• If you have questions, please email Tim. 

Guiding Questions

• What qualities make a high quality presentation?
• How can my exhibition best represent my process and learning?
• How do I best communicate my learning?

Do Now (15)

Check in with your creation advisor for attendance.  Discuss some of the already known expectations for EOLs with your art form group.

Do Next (15-30)

Head to the Drama room for Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall

Return to Creation Advisors (15)

Reflect with your creation group on the Town Hall

• How did you connect to the information presented?
• What was something you didn't know before that came from this conversation?
• What is still confusing or a challenge for you based on the presented information?

Studio Time (35)

Setup your studio time goal. Your first priority is to setup the thinking routine of your presentation by adding in a large group of probing questions to have in your repertoire for Exhibitions.

Reflection/Ticket Out (5)

Last 10 minutes | Reflect on your studio time goal and share your thinking routine plan with your Creation advisor

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 | Thinking Routines

Today is about Metacognition.  We are all a part of this intellectual community and we encourage you to take that mentality out beyond our walls.  It translates well to the professional world.  The one thing that many of the professionals always come back and tell us after interacting with our students is their level of questioning and thinking.  Why let this falter at our own Exhibitions?  Engage your audience in thinking and as an audience member, engage in the intellectual community.

Announcements

• Check your Exhibition Time
• Check the Job List on the Exhibition page on the Blog (where you already went for the Exhibitions Schedule). 
• What job(s) are you equipped to complete?  
• Comment on the time and role you want to fill in for on the EoL Volunteer Schedule.  
• More details will come from the Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall on Thursday morning from Molly.  
• Please do not email Molly with questions, save them until that point in time.
•  As you are completing your Exhibition of Learning presentation (slides, videos, pdfs, etc.) Please submit them to Presentation Submission form.  A submission for Links to websites and other media has been added.  Youtube will stretch the bandwidth of the JMKAC so keep your links to your relevant work.  If you have a group of pictures, make a slide presentation of them to make it easier to present.
• We want to ensure your documents are successfully uploaded and prepared.  To avoid problems with chromebooks and WIFI at JMKAC, we will provide the needed technology on site.  If you plan to bring backups for documents, please use a Flashdrive. 
• If you have questions, please email Tim. 
• Your Artist Statement is Officially late - Please submit them asap

Guiding Questions

• What qualities make a high quality presentation?
• How can my exhibition best represent my process and learning?
• How do I best communicate my learning?

DO NOW | Quick Jot (5)
Select a Thinking Routine that you would likely use for your EoL.
Whiparound to share responses

STEP INSIDE (10)
After sharing out responses, take this time to reflect and write responses to the following questions:

• If you were an audience member, how would you respond to your own thinking routine?  
• How would you hope others would respond?

Turn and Talk with someone around you about this, share your thinking.  Answer the questions with them about their own thinking routine.

REPHRASE (15)
Write down questions that fit within your thinking routine, but are more specific. (Can be done in a large group based on choice of the Creation Advisor or even group).

Example: See / Think / Wonder

• See
• What do you see?
• What colors do you see?
• What details do you see that other people might miss?
• Think
• What do you think?
• What do you think the colors mean?
• What parts do you think are most important?

Share out with the group one specific question you added to your thinking routine.

Studio Time (35)

Setup your studio time goal. Your first priority is to setup the thinking routine of your presentation by adding in a large group of probing questions to have in your repertoire for Exhibitions.

Reflection/Ticket Out (10)

Last 10 minutes | Reflect on your studio time goal and share your thinking routine plan with your Creation advisor

Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 | Presentation Skills Development Workshops | Part Two

Yesterday was a successful jump into project presentation preparation.  Use your studio time effectively.  Let us stay focused before we leave for a week. Keep yourself engaged and primed to present.  We consciously gave studio time after the presentation skills workshops for you to apply the skills you have observed in those sessions.  Every moment you have during IDEAS Block is valuable, just ask our experienced presenters.  Many of you ask what makes a Spotlight presentation and high quality preparation is a huge part of that decision making process. Tomorrow we will have individual lessons on thinking routines and metacognition. 

Announcements

• Check your Exhibition Time
• Check the Job List on the Exhibition page on the Blog (where you already went for the Exhibitions Schedule). 
• What job(s) are you equipped to complete?  
• Comment on the time and role you want to fill in for on the EoL Volunteer Schedule.  
• More details will come from the Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall on Thursday morning from Molly.  
• Please do not email Molly with questions, save them until that point in time.
•  As you are completing your Exhibition of Learning presentation (slides, videos, pdfs, etc.) Please submit them to Presentation Submission form.  
• We want to ensure your documents are successfully uploaded and prepared.  To avoid problems with chromebooks and WIFI at JMKAC, we will provide the needed technology on site.  If you plan to bring backups for documents, please use a Flashdrive. 
• If you have questions, please email Tim. 
• Your Artist Statement is Officially late - Please submit them asap

Guiding Questions

• What qualities make a high quality presentation?
• How can my exhibition best represent my process and learning?
• How do I best communicate my learning?

Do Now

• Meet with your creation advisor before going to your next location based around your presentation skills workshop.  If you do not have a location to go to, your Creation Advisor will add you to a list (teachers, you have editing rights, if a student does not have a home, just place them with a group for Monday and Tuesday).  (8 minutes to check in with Creation advisor and transition to new space)
• Presentation groups (Make sure you switch to Tuesday
• These lessons will last 30 minutes and then you will transition back to your Creation advisors for studio time to apply your new skills.

Presentation Skills Workshops

• Presentation skills
• Molly | Dance Studio
• Mike | Drama room
• dREW | Music room
• Gallery Preparation 
• Stuart | Vis Art Room
• Dan | Ray Bradbury room
• Presentation Preparation
• Tim & Becky | Engineering Room 
• Addie & Heather | Cafeteria
• Timi & Erin | IDEAS Science

Studio Time

• Return to your Creation advisor to start your studio time based around developing your presentation and thinking about the skill development you focused on in your Presentation Skills Workshops. Setup your studio time goal.

Reflection/Ticket Out 

• Last 10 minutes | Reflect on your studio time goal and share one aspect of the skills that you plan to apply during your Exhibition of Learning with your Creation advisor.

Monday, December 19th, 2016 | Presentation Skills Development Workshops | Part One

This week is focused around preparation for your Exhibitions of Learning.  Today and Tuesday will have presentation skills workshops.  Anyone who has presented at EOLs, use this time to refine your skills, develop a skill you still struggle with, and to give advice to others who have not done this before.  It is an intense process that we all sometimes take for granted.  Please use your experience to support others and build them up.

Announcements

• Check your Exhibition Time
• Check the Job List on the Exhibition page on the Blog (where you already went for the Exhibitions Schedule). 
• What job(s) are you equipped to complete?  
• Comment on the time and role you want to fill in for on the EoL Volunteer Schedule.  
• More details will come from the Exhibitions of Learning Town Hall on Thursday morning from Molly.  
• Please do not email Molly with questions, save them until that point in time.
•  As you are completing your Exhibition of Learning presentation (slides, videos, pdfs, etc.) Please submit them to Presentation Submission form.  
• We want to ensure your documents are successfully uploaded and prepared.  To avoid problems with chromebooks and WIFI at JMKAC, we will provide the needed technology on site.  If you plan to bring backups for documents, please use a Flashdrive. 
• If you have questions, please email Tim. 
• Your Artist Statement is Officially late - Please submit them asap

Guiding Questions

• What qualities make a high quality presentation?
• How can my exhibition best represent my process and learning?
• How do I best communicate my learning?

Do Now

• Meet with your creation advisor before going to your next location based around your presentation skills workshop.  If you do not have a location to go to, your Creation Advisor will add you to a list (teachers, you have editing rights, if a student does not have a home, just place them with a group for Monday and Tuesday).  (8 minutes to check in with Creation advisor and transition to new space)
• Presentation groups
• These lessons will last 30 minutes and then you will transition back to your Creation advisors for studio time to apply your new skills.

Presentation Skills Workshops

• Presentation skills
• Molly | Dance Studio
• Mike | Drama room
• dREW | Music room
• Round Tables 
• Tim | Engineering Room 
• Gallery Preparation 
• Stuart | Vis Art Room
• Dan | Ray Bradbury room

Studio Time

• Return to your Creation advisor to start your studio time based around developing your presentation and thinking about the skill development you focused on in your Presentation Skills Workshops. Setup your studio time goal.

Reflection/Ticket Out 

• Last 10 minutes | Reflect on your studio time goal and share one aspect of the skills that you plan to apply during your Exhibition of Learning with your Creation advisor.

Friday, December 16th, 2016 | Artist Statements are due! Start Presentation Preparation

Artist statements are due today.  You have created something, big or small.  It is time to showcase your learning process.  Your artist statement helps fill in the gaps that your creation may not tell about your artistic intent.  This will be your second line of defense for communicating your creation.  You first line of defense and explanation is your Exhibition.  Today, you will be able to start developing the presentation portion of your exhibition.

Guiding Questions

• Who am I as an artist? 
• Who am I as an exhibitor?
• How do artists communicate vision and intent?

DO NOW

• Turn in your Artist Statement to Addie in the IDEAS Block ELA Google Classroom
• If you are not ready to do this, then the expectation is that your artist statement is turned in by the end of the class period today.

DO NEXT

• Set up your studio time journal based on your needs for today.  If your artist statement is not complete, set a goal surrounding this.
• If you are ready, go to the presentation page on the Humanities Webpage. The outline for an exhibition is there.

STUDIO TIME

Ticket out | Complete your Artist Statement and submit it to Addie.

Next week will be a week of presentation workshopping and preparation.  Monday and Tuesday are the core workshops and studio time to prepare your presentation.  Wednesday and Thursday will be focused around metacognition during exhibitions. We will also have a Town Hall on Thursday where Molly will cover many of the expectations and needs for Exhibitions of Learning.  When we return from Winter Break, we will be in full practice Exhibition mode.  Be ready to exhibit your learning at any time when we come back.  The schedule will come out before you return. 

Thursday, December 15, 2016 | Feedback Session & Ladder of Feedback Protocol

Yesterday, you ran through feedback with a partner. Today is an opportunity for the group to practice on intentional feedback as we prepare for exhibitions.  Approach feedback with a growth mindset and look for ways to help others grow.  Keep your language focused around helping them to grow and make their artistic intent well communicated.

DO NOW
Choose one Artist Statement from the group to workshop.  Someone who is seeking more complete feedback.  Complete the ladder of feedback protocol with their artist statement.

• Review/Clarify Outcomes 
• Presenter will review outcomes for the team. At this time, presenter will identify what changes are being made and what feedback those changes are based upon.  (5 minutes)
• Review of relevant documents
• Class will review relevant documents being presented on. Members should have already read through these, but this time is for an additional read-through with outcomes in mind. Presenter will review and reflect on documents with team. (5 minutes)
• Ladder of Feedback
• Clarifying Questions (5 minutes)
• Only questions necessary for understanding documents or outcomes.
• Values (2 minutes)
  Go around the room twice
  “I hear you saying….
  “I see…”
  “I value…”
• Concerns/ Suggestions towards specific outcomes (10 minutes)
  Probing questions, real suggestions, keeping both the immediate foci and the larger picture of the work in mind.
• Identify Next Steps 
• Presenter will identify what is standing out with the concerns and suggestions and identify what will be discussed at next team meeting and initial next steps. Communication plan will be identified with each step. (2 minutes)

Studio Time | Set a Goal for Your Artist Statement Revisions. A stretch goal of running through the C|E|CH process again with a new partner is reasonable. Also, finish your emails to parents, professionals, and family members.


Ticket Out | A completed, revised draft of your Artist Statement and shared high quality feedback with another student.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 | Workshopping your Artist Statement

Artist statements lay the foundation for others to understand your work and interpretation in your art form.  It is your opportunity to share more of your background knowledge and your argument that you are making.  This is your chance to show your passion and purpose.  WHY DOES YOUR PROJECT MATTER?  These will be posted at the venues for community members to read and understand your artistic intent. Remember, your work can be displayed beyond our school walls and shared at conferences such as Maker Faire Milwaukee.  Your artist statement is a key component to sharing your work.


DO NOW
Mix and Mingle | Find a partner that has been the same fast food restaurant as you have recently and didn't know it! (can also be assigned by your IDEAS Block Creation Advisor). Read your partner's Artist Statement quietly to yourself first AND then out loud to your partner. After reading, document a Connect. Extend. Challenge.  Repeat this process with your own Artist Statement.  Record your C|E|CH on either a document or in paper form for feedback. (This process should take about 10-15 minutes per person).

• How does the statement connect to your own statement? What connections can you make between their structure writing and your own?
• How does the statement extend your thinking about what should or should not be included in an Artist Statement? How would you change your own artist statement?
• What can this artist do to improve their statement?  What questions are still left open by their artist statement?  How does theirs challenge your own?

Studio Time | Set a Goal for Your Artist Statement Revisions. A stretch goal of running through the C|E|CH process again with a new partner is reasonable. Also, finish your emails to parents, professionals, and family members.


Ticket Out | A completed, revised draft of your Artist Statement

Tuesday, December 12, 2016 | Artist Statement Writing Day

We continue our process of developing Artist Statements today.  The goal of today is to have evidence for gaining valuable feedback tomorrow in IDEAS Block in the morning.

Guiding Questions

• Who am I as an artist? 
• How did I progress as an artist this semester?
• How do artists communicate vision and intent?

Do Now 

• 10 minutes - Review the Exhibitions of Learning Schedule
• Write a formal email to your parents, family and even professionals to your Exhibition of Learning.
• Review the following Example from the Étude Engineering Team.  This would be a way to engage a professional in attending your Exhibition of Learning.  

Review Yesterday's Mini-Lesson | Artist Statements
Artist Statement Description and Grading Rubric
More Examples and details on Artist Statement 
Open up the links above and discuss the Artist Statement Expectations.


Studio Time | Set a Goal for Your Artist Statement and make your document. A stretch goal of completing your first paragraph is reasonable.

• Begin your artist statement by considering the following questions:
• What is my story?
• How does my art portray my story?
• Who is my audience? What do I want my audience to think about?
• Publication Information
• Generally a page in length
• Block paragraphs
• Single spaced
• Upload into correct assignment in Google Classroom

Ticket Out | A completed draft of your Artist Statement

Monday, December 12th | Artist Statement | Presentation Phase

As you all know, we are in a constant state of revision with IDEAS Project Block. The development of the educational program and the development of projects are increasingly more professional and more true to how creatives communicate their ideas in the world. Today's focus is on Artist Statements. Despite what you may have already started or drafted, please consider the example and make revisions that advance your writing.

Guiding Questions

• Who am I as an artist? 
• How did I progress as an artist this semester?
• How do artists communicate vision and intent?

Do Now 
See | Think | Wonder
Make your observations on your own and then circle up to share responses.
Record your thinking on Post-It Notes.  Collect them as a group.

• What do you notice about the visuals in this image?
• What do you think about as you observe the visuals?
• What do you wonder, question, or even challenge about this image?

Banksy, IKEA Punk, London 2009

Do Next
I used to think... Now, I think...
Paper copies of the Artist Statement tied to the image above will be in Advisor mailboxes for today. Make your observations with a partner and then circle up to share responses. Collect your thinking on another Post-It Note and collect them as a larger group. Please have them before you start today's lesson.

Mini-Lesson | Artist Statements
Artist Statement Description and Grading Rubric
More Examples and details on Artist Statement 
Open up the links above and discuss the Artist Statement Expectations.

Studio Time | Set a Goal for Your Artist Statement and make your document. A stretch goal of completing your first paragraph is reasonable.

• Begin your artist statement by considering the following questions:
• What is my story?
• How does my art portray my story?
• Who is my audience? What do I want my audience to think about?
  
• Publication Information
• Generally a page in length
• Block paragraphs
• Single spaced
• Upload into correct assignment in Google Classroom

Ticket Out | An Artist Statement document setup with the correct title format and placed in your individual IDEAS Block folder.

Week of December 12-16 | Artist Statements and Planning for Exhibitions of Learning

Last week, everyone has rounded out Creation Phase within their discipline.  We are done with creation processes in class time.  If you choose to revise your project on your own time, then setup times within your creation advisor's office hours after school.  You are welcome to revise your works of art, dances, and engineered designs on your own time.  We start the next step in the creative process, Presentation.  We prepare to present through Artist Statements to communicate artistic intent and vision.  

Announcements:

• Please take Destiny's survey - Please consider doing this on your own time.
• Creation Advisors will share your End Product Rubric grades for IDEAS Block
• Next week we will focus on Presentation and proper preparation.  We will also conduct presentation workshops for everyone to prepare a high quality presentation.  Even if you struggled during your creation process, you can exhibit your learning 
• When we return from Winter Break, we will spend that week preparing for Exhibitions through Practice Presentations.  When you are home or around relatives during Winter Break, try practicing your presentation in front of them.  

Monday 

• Artist Statement Introduction Do Now and begin writing Artist Statements
• Schedule a Writing conference if you are having a difficult time with this process.

Tuesday 

• Writing Day for Artist Statements
• Write down you Exhibition time and send a formal email to your parents and family members, inviting them to your Exhibition of Learning.  Feel free to invite anyone who is invested or interested in your project. Reach out to professionals!

Wednesday 

• Peer Feedback sessions and gain some advisor feedback

Thursday

• Revision with more peer Feedback. 

Friday

• Revision of Artist Statements and Submission of Artist Statements to Addie.
• Print out Artist Statements for Matting (Gallery Walk-ers)
• Matting materials are located in the Visual Art Room. 

Week of December 5-9 | The LAST Week of Creation Phase [Project Deadline]

This is your last week of creation. What are you going to do to to round out this phase? What do you have that is not quite finished? What can you add more complexity to? Have you taken feedback into consideration? Think about your vision of your Exhibition in January. Who will be there? What professionals have you worked with?

Announcements:

• If you missed scheduling your Exhibition time slot, please seek out Molly to schedule it. If you do not do so by Friday

• Remember to ask for the week of Exhibitions of Learning off from work: January 9th through January 12th. If you need a letter from to school or a phone call to your employer, let us know. Your advisors are your advocates and any one of us will be willing to advocate for you.

• Remember our school days are shifted on our Exhibitions of Learning days. It is your normal school hours and attendance is tracked. Please avoid scheduling any appointments during the school day (talk with your parents and remind them). Athletes must have notes from their coaches, otherwise your attendance on those nights are expected (Official hours will be clarified soon).

• Advisors will be rounding out Evidence Checks this week and entering them into Skyward. If you have clarifying questions about grades, send emails to your creation advisors for IDEAS Block, not Tim or Molly unless they are your creation advisors.
  
• Creations are due by Friday, December 9th.  We start Exhibition Preparation and Artist Statement development the next week.

• Advisors, please make sure to mark attendance.

Monday | Professional Models

• Do Now:  Please complete these as a part of your Do Now.
• Check out Dylan Miller's Game and please give feedback to him here.
• Use arrows to move. Use spacebar to shoot (z is better). Students can log in and rate the game for him.
• Please fill out the following surveys:
• Sports Rivalries
• Body Modification 

Tuesday | Work-shopping a Project

• Workshop a single project and give valuable feedback
• Yearlong projects will be checking in with Tim during the class period (He will seek you out)
  

Wednesday | Tinker within your Discipline

• Take the first 15 minutes of class to dive into something engaging in your discipline such as creative movement, take apart something, write a short story, doodle a poodle, etc. Then return to your studio time journals.
• Town Hall will be preparing for us going to an Indy Lens event at JMKAC today.
• Meet the Patels
• Trailer for the film
• IDEAS Schedule

  7:55 - 8:57	IDEAS Block
  9:00 - 9:40	Town Hall
  9:40 - 12:00	INDIE LENS
  12:00 - 12:30	Lunch
  12:30 - 1:15	Period 6
  1:15 - 2:00	Period 8

Thursday | Work-shopping a Project

• Workshop a single project and give valuable feedback
  

Friday | Project Deadline

• This is your last day of in class creation time.  
• Break off into Groups of three and follow the Micro Lab protocol for Feedback. 
• Reflect on your creation phase up to now.  You have something that is now tangible and exists that did not before.  How have you grown?