Mike Fisher author of Hacking Instructional Design. Shoutout to @elizabethfisher

• All this stuff that is eating up teachers’ time to plan.
• Easier to just purchase a program or a plan.
• Shift focus to contemporary instructional design.
• Why is it so hard to move away from
• Decision paralysis. So many decisions to make that we don’t know what to do.
• How well we need to design assessments.
• Standards, resources, external assessments.
• The What - standards
• The How - activities
• The How Well? - assessments.
• Tripticks from AAA
• Trying things out - gives you some freedom.
• Being a lead learner is pushed aside to get things done.
• Right-sizing the work. Allow students to be cocreators in instructional design.
• Breaking the standard into manageable bits for teachers and for students.
• Learning targets “standard statement“ with I can in front of it.
• Help students have high level of mastery.
• Kids do not care about your grades!
• Let them be accountable to each other and accountable to the world.
• How to be a transformative Principal? Invite conversation, collaboration. How do we remain loyal to the learner and learning?

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