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//**Best Practices' Academy**// **August 16 –18, 2011 **

Goal: Designing the Best Learning Experiences for all Students //**Objectives **// //**Participants will: **//
 * 1) Develop/deepen facility with review, analysis, evaluation, adaptation, and design of lessons that tie to the SAS—Common Core Standards and Digital Age Best Practices
 * 2) Deepen understanding and apply Formative Assessment activities to lesson design to ensure learning
 * 3) Analyze and evaluate standards-based lesson(s) to determine Levels of Teaching Innovation
 * 4) Analyze and evaluate video lesson(s) for student work and learning tied to Higher Order Thinking Skills, Engagement, Authenticity, and Technology
 * 5) Review lessons for alignment with Digital Age Best Practices
 * 6) Develop facility with the tools modeled/reviewed/evaluated and, a) reflect upon how these tools can be explicitly embedded into new or revised learning opportunities, b) embed selected tools into instructional design.
 * 7) Expend the energy and enthusiasm to design Common Core Standards-based, student-centered, 21st Century, technology-explicitly-embedded learning opportunities into current/refreshed/new curriculum to meet the needs of //**all **// students.