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Overview of XQ+RI:

The Rhode Island XQ Challenge

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A call to all thinkers, makers, dreamers and education inventors to

rethink the 100-year old outmoded American high school.

WE LAUNCHED XQ: SUPER SCHOOL PROJECTSEPTEMBER 11, 2015

America rose to the challenge

10,000 school

BUILDERS

NEARLY

F ROM AL L

50 states

REPRESENT I NG OVER

59 occupations

696 teams

SUBMI T T ED APPL I CAT I ONS

XQ DESIGN KIT

We empowered communities by providing them with design tools to reimagine

high school - with the goal of not simply building a better school, but providing the

framework and the inspiration to rethink high school itself.

What does RI want for our children?

Joyful and happy

Reach full potential

Support themselves

What does this look like?

Every child graduates high school proficient

Every child graduates having completed a work-based learning

experience

Every child graduates with a post-secondary credential of

value (industry-recognized credentials, college credit or

Advanced Placement)

XQ+RI Overview

• Design Days are the first engagement

• Design Teams able to submit applications for one of 20 planning

grants ($25,000) to support the full design of their schools

• Planning grant winners will be eligible to receive up to $500,000

to support implementation of their school designs

• More to come at the end of the workshop

Design Days + Objectives

1. Clear understandings of next steps for the XQ+RI Challenge

2. Excitement!

3. Empowerment and commitment

4. New connections

Agenda• Welcome and XQ+RI Overview

• Warm-Up Activity: What's your motivation?

• Empowering and Understanding Individual and Community Voice

• Knowledge Modules & Additional Resources

• BREAK

• Student Speakers

• Current State and Local Educational Landscape: Data Snapshot

• Visualizing your Visions

• Next Steps, Questions & Closing

Norms

• Acknowledge best intentions

• Question assumptions

• Maintain equity of voice

• Represent yourself

• Be generative

• Be present

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Warm Up Activity:

Grounding in Your “Why”

Why Is XQ+RI Important for RI High Schools?

1) Find the Motivation

handout in your packet

2) Read through the front

table (in GREEN) and

choose the TOP THREE

reasons you are

motivated to redesign

high school in Rhode

Island (rank them: 1, 2, 3).

Why Is XQ+RI Important for RI High Schools?

1) Now, look at your #1

reason.

1) Note the initials in the

bottom right of that box

and flip over the sheet.

1) Match your #1 response

to the Learner Goal

category.

Understanding Our WhyWhat Learner Goal resonates the most with you?

Goals for Students and Schools Number of Respondents

Masters of All Fundamental Literacies (MFL)

Holders of Foundational Knowledge (HFK)

Original Thinkers for an Uncertain World (OT)

Generous Collaborators for Tough Problems (GC)

Learners for Life (LL)

Table Discussion

• What Learner Goal most resonated with you?

• Why did you choose it?

• What trends are you seeing at your table?• What needs has your table identified?

• What perspectives are missing?

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Empowering & Understanding

Individual and Community Voice

Which identities (or intersection of identities) have the strongest effect on how you see yourself as a person? Why?

What parts of your identity do you see having the most effect on your

interactions with students / young people? How so?

• Ability

• Age

• Career/Military Status

• Education

• Ethnicity

• Relationship Status

• Religious or Spiritual

Affiliation

• Sexual Orientation

• Socioeconomic Status

• Other

• Family size & Composition

• First or Native Language

• Gender/Sex

• Hobbies

• National Origin

• Race

Question 1Which identities (or intersection of identities) have the strongest effect on how you see yourself as a person? Why?

• Ability

• Age

• Career/Military Status

• Education

• Ethnicity

• Race

• Relationship Status

• Religious or Spiritual

Affiliation

• Sexual Orientation

• Socioeconomic Status

• Family size

& composition

• First or Native Language

• Gender/Sex

• Hobbies

• National Origin

• Other

Question 2What parts of your identity do you see having the most effect on your interactions with students / young people? How so?

• Ability

• Age

• Career/Military Status

• Education

• Ethnicity

• Race

• Relationship Status

• Religious or Spiritual

Affiliation

• Sexual Orientation

• Socioeconomic Status

• Family size

& composition

• First or Native Language

• Gender/Sex

• Hobbies

• National Origin

• Other

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The XQ+RI Challenge Planning Grant Application

XQ+RI Design Days: All Rhode Island high schools & communities

encouraged to join

XQ+RI Planning Cohort:20 school design teams from across

the state participate $25,000 awards to all planning teams

XQ+RI Implementation cohort:

5 school design teams participate, selected from the

planning cohort$500,000 awards to

implementation teams

XQ+RI Process

March 2019: Applications for planning

grants are live

March 13-March 27: Regional

Design Days introduce

community members to

XQ+RI

September 2020 -June 2023: XQ+RI

schools fully implement their

design plans

January -June 2020: XQ+RI

schools prepare for

implementation

January 15, 2020:Announcement of Implementation Grant winners

December 15, 2019:Implementation

Grant applications due

July -December 2019:Selected planning

grant schools create implementation

plans

June 2019:Announcement of

Planning Grant winners

May 24, 2019:Planning Grant

applications due

XQ+RI Challenge Timeline

XQ+RI Planning Grant Application & Selection

Application Components

• Vision

• Plan

• Organizational Capacity

• Budget

• Operational • Community Commitments• Design Team Commitments• Sign-off from Principal• Additional Materials

XQ+RI Planning Grant Application

Application available at http://www.ride.ri.gov/xqri

Why Become a Planning Cohort Team?

• Technical assistance and support via a minimum of four workshops between August and December

• Community of Practice

• Education Opportunity Audit and Knowledge Modules

XQ Knowledge Modules

PROFILE OF A GRADUATE

EMPOWER YOUR COMMUNITY: CAST A DIVERSE TEAM

• Cast a diverse team

• Recruit people who will help you generate bold

ideas.

• Invite students as designers and show respect

for their leadership.

• Include people who can help you build

connections between school and community.

• Create a level playing field where all voices are

acknowledged equally.

• Be honest about the strengths and challenges

faced by your school and your community.

XQ KNOWLEDGE MODULES: WHY?

• Design with a whole school perspective

• Rethink every element of traditional school with

all young people’s futures in mind.

• Challenge assumptions about how young people

learn and who is capable.

• Key questions: Does this work and for whom?

• How can our insights and inquiry process avoid

designing for the monolithic “average” person

and instead also consider every individual as

unique and different?

• Ground school re-design in research and new

insights

1.Teaching for Deeper Learning

2.Youth Empowerment, Voice and Choice

3.Community Partnerships

4.Rethinking Traditional Systems

5.Personalized Learning Powered by Tech

6.And a much Broader Vision of Student Success

XQ DESIGN PRINCIPLES

KNOWLEDGE MODULES

THE XQ KNOWLEDGE

MODULES help anyone

think boldly about both the

possibilities and the

realities of rethinking high

school.

The Knowledge Modules were the

foundation for the Super School

competition, and they remain a guiding

resource for all engaged in the rethinking

high school process and XQ tool

development.

The refreshed Knowledge Modules

include 240+ leading resources, links,

scientific studies, and updated

language for greater applicability outside

of the Super School contest.

DESIGN JOURNEY | 13 MODULES, 3 PHASES

XQ + RI USER GUIDE

TEXT CHALLENGE to 724665 to receive your digital user guide from XQ!

State and Local Context

Using Data: Don’t just look at the headlines

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ELA Proficiency in Grade 11

As measured by the 2017-18 SAT

School Report Cardswww.reportcard.ride.ri.gov

Using Data to Inform Your Thinking

GUIDES TO ACTION | ONLINE BLUEPRINT DESIGN TOOLS

Mobile and online tools support a design process that help district and school leaders understand EOA findings and create detailed action plans to transform high schools.

GUIDES TO ACTION

• Looking at Student Journeys

• Looking at Teaching and Learning

• Looking at Supports and Interventions for Students

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REVISE guides

Creating Your Vision

Creating a Vision

1. Discuss the questions outlined in "Envisioning a School Built for the Future." (15 minutes)

2. Create a visual on your poster paper that illustrates, using words or pictures, your school's vision in order to share it with others. (10 minutes)

Creating a Vision

Vision Visuals: Gallery Walk

• 1-2 people stay at each school team to answer questions about vision

• Everyone else, grab a pen, some dot stickers & post-it notes

• Walk the room and review Vision Visuals (try to get to 5 other school teams’ posters)

• Write on a post-it where you have ideas, questions, or areas of potential partnership

XQ+RI Next Steps:

The Rhode Island XQ Challenge

You’ve Got Questions?We’ve Got Answers!

Answers to questions raised today will be posted at www.ride.ri.gov/xqri

Questions from social media will also be answered via #XQRI from @RIDeptEd

Additional questions? Email us at XQRI@ride.ri.gov

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THANK YOU!!

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