Session 8
1700 - 1815
Eastern Time
Concurrent A
Equitable Coding: Lesson Study Workshop for Computer Science
If you've ever wondered how to introduce computer science to your elementary school, come learn how lesson study offers an ideal approach for teachers and students to learn how to code. Even if you have little or no experience with coding or computer science, by the end of this workshop you will know how computers work, how to explain coding to students, and how students of all socioeconomic backgrounds can benefit from exposure to computer science lessons early in their academic career.
In this workshop, we will learn what Computer Science and Coding is all about. We will explore different options for schools and teachers to learn, and we will walk through the phases of lesson study focused on a computer science research lesson. Through presentations and interactive exercises you will gain a whole new way to think about equity in the technology workforce, and the importance of computer science in schools.
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Tom Newman
Concurrent A: Live Q and A
1800 - 1815
Eastern Time
Concurrent B
Lesson Study for Pre-Service Teachers: Creating a Vision for Instruction
Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” This workshop explains how Collaborative Lesson Study can help pre-service teachers discover effective practices for their teaching repertoire. In this workshop, participants will gain tools for using Collaborative Lesson Study to enhance pre-service teachers’ understanding of effective pedagogy. Collaborative Lesson Study is a research-supported form of learning where teams jointly plan lessons, teach and observe one another in teaching those lessons, and refine lessons together. Lesson Study prepares pre-service teachers for collaborative school environments.
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DEEP DIVE - Workshops
Vicki Collet
United States
Concurrent B: Live Q and A
1800 - 1815
Eastern Time
Concurrent C
Critical Lesson Study Facilitation Tools: Building capacity to create an equitable and sustainable statewide program
In 2016, the Texas Lesson Study (TXLS) pilot began with 208teachers from 30schools and 16 school districts. In the four years since then, Texas Lesson Study has grown to serve over 1,500 teachers from 216 schools and 98school districts across the state.
Designed with educators in various roles in mind, this workshop will provide a brief overview of the history of Lesson Study in Texas, key partnerships, and current implementation practices that have made the program successful.
After learning about the context for TXLS, participants will practice using the resources to familiarize themselves with the TXLS tools and processes through practice and provide feedback on how to make them more equitable.
By the end of the session, participants will know and have practice with the structures, processes, and resources that enable an effective, yet adaptable statewide professional development program.
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DEEP DIVE - Workshops
Beth Burkhart
United States
Concurrent C: Live Q and A
1800 - 1815
Eastern Time
Concurrent D
Building a Deeper Understanding of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Through Lesson Studies
How can we use lesson study as a leever to understand, cultivate, and build educator self efficacy to integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
(CRP) into math practice?
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DEEP DIVE - Workshops
Yekaterina Milvidskaia
United States
Session 9
1815 - 1915
Eastern Time
Concurrent A
Lesson Study with 4-H Volunteer Educators
The 4-H Youth Development Program, an out-of-school time youth development organization, offers learning opportunities to youth aged 5-18 in agricultural, science, leadership, and civic content. The 4-H program reaches millions of youth nationally and internationally. Professional development for 4-H adult volunteers and teen volunteers needs improvement. Lesson study represents an opportunity to introduce a more effective professional development model. My lesson study work relied on participation of 6 adult volunteers and 4 teenager volunteer educators focused on animal science content in two counties north of San Francisco. Educators met as a lesson study group once a month and then delivered veterinary science and bio-security lessons to 4-H youth members once a month. Benefits included improving social connections, confidence in facilitating lessons; challenges included timeline (given differing project meeting schedules) and curricula lesson selection. The work extends practical knowledge of implementing lesson study in informal contexts with volunteer educators.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Steven Worker
United States
Louisiana 4-H Cloverbuds Social/Emotional Lesson Study
During the 2019-2020 school year, Cloverbuds joined the Lesson Study group through the Louisiana 4-H program. 4-H is the largest youth development organization in the country, serving more the six million youth. Through 4-H, children and teens “have taken on critical societal issues, such as addressing community health inequities, engaging in civil discourse and advocating for equity and inclusion for all.” (4-h.org, 2020) 4-H is delivered by Cooperative Extension operating through more than 100 land grant universities across the nation. 4-H programs encourage leadership and community involvement by providing hands-on programming in areas such as health, science, agriculture, and civic engagement. 4-H typically serves youth in grades 4-12. Cloverbuds seeks to introduce younger children to 4-H through co-curricular and extra-curricular club programs.
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Effective lesson study practice
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Esther Boe
United States
Taking Lesson Study Beyond the Classroom: Building Capacity in a National Out-of-School-Time (OST) Education Program
Lesson study has been used successfully in the United States with educators in the 4-H Youth Development Program, an out-of-school-time (OST) educational organization focused on positive youth development. Empirical studies on the use of lesson study in 4-H have revealed improvements in educators’ data-driven decision-making, content knowledge, lesson planning and implementation, and social connections across all contexts. Given that OST settings can provide opportunities for out-of-school time learning for school-aged youth, both from an academic and a positive youth development perspective, outcomes from this work may be applicable to other OST programs or activities in the United States and internationally.
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Martin Smith
United States
Lesson Study in Non-Traditional Education Settings
In an effort to strengthen communities and ensure youth reach their greatest potential, the Kentucky State University 4-H and Staff Development Team used the Lesson Study to develop and implement strategic activities to reach volunteers and youth in non-traditional settings. Our team worked with volunteers to identify essential elements that have been identified as critical to the well-being and positive development of youth. Youth identified their “sparks” which is their interest and passions that promote healthy, positive development and contribute to psychological well-being and resilience. The Lesson study framework used to guide this initiative improved lesson planning, content knowledge, teaching practice, and social conditions for youth and adults in non-traditional 4-H Settings. A reflection tool was used to guide facilitators in collecting information following the implementation of each activity. This sharecase will share how lesson study provided the framework for Kentucky State University’s 4-H team to work for with volunteers and middle school diverse youth.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Travella Free
United States
Teen Teacher Experiences with the Lesson Study Model
The 4-H Teens-as-Teachers program is a model utilized by the 4-H Youth Development Program where middle- and high-school youth engage as mentors to teach younger youth. This program is conducted during out-of-school time and primarily utilizes two curricula – Cooking Academy which focuses on healthy eating and nutrition, and Youth Experiences in Science (YES) which focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Two teens-as-teachers lesson study groups, one for each curriculum, were formed. The teen teachers participated in lesson study meetings in between each teaching session. The teen teachers met once a week and utilized reflection sheets to organize their thoughts. Teen teachers reported that the lesson study meetings allowed them to reflect on their sessions, discuss successes and challenges, and make improvements for their next lesson. They also reported challenges like time and transportation. Findings extend practical implications for using lesson study with youth mentors in out-of-school contexts.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Car Mun Kok
United States
Promoting & Growing 4-H Programs Utilizing Common Measures and Lesson Study
The 4-H is the non-formal educational organization of the Cooperative Extension System, offers learning opportunities to youth aged 5-18 in out-of-school time settings, including clubs, afterschool programs, and camps. The program reaches millions of youth across the United States and internationally. Professional development for 4-H educators – staff, adult volunteers, and teen volunteers – has been a challenge for years. Lesson study represents an opportunity to introduce a professional development model that is consistent with the pedagogical foundations of the 4-H program, namely experiential learning, to 4-H educators. Prior research on the use of lesson study in 4-H has been promising, but limited in scope. This study represents work from a U.S. national collaboration to expand and sustain the use of Lesson Study in 4-H. Using a case study approach, findings from this investigation revealed improvements in educators’ data-driven decision-making, content knowledge, lesson planning and implementation, social support, and use of reflective practice.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Manola Erby
United States
Kindergarten Mathematics - Researching Children’s Ideas of Decomposition of “6”
Our research lesson focused on combinations of numbers in a kindergarten class. The lesson study cycle helped us better conceptualize a unit new to us, as our district instructional materials were updated, and helped us refine our use of writing, board work, and discourse with our students. We are more adept at supporting our students in talking and listening with one another, as well as collaborating with our colleagues to hone our lesson focus on a mathematical goal. We have learned to help our students listen and add to one another’s thinking and to use our shared public board space as a place where students can figure out ideas with each other. As a result of our lesson study work, we feel we better understand the mathematical intent of the unit we focused on and we are ready to apply our new professional learning to new cycles in the future.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Sharon Dotger
United States
Concurrent B
Lesson Study as a Conduit for Transformative Pedagogy
This WALS talk shares the tenets of Transformative Pedagogy, outlining how Lesson Study provides a conduit for equity-driven educators to connect moral-ethical ideals with instructional practice.
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Michelle Stimpson
United States
How lesson study saved us in a global pandemic
In Spring 2020, our team at High Tech High Media Arts had commenced our third round of research lesson study work for the year. Then COVID-19 hit and we were thrown into an entirely new world of remote learning.
As teachers, our primary focus continued to be on the social-emotional health of our students, engaging students through culturally sustaining pedagogy and collaborating as professionals. Lesson study provided a structure for us to continue to do all of these things, even through Zoom.
Our case illustrates the transition our team made to collaboratively design an online mathematics lesson for high school students. We share how this collaborative learning allowed us to keep students at the center of our online classrooms by designing rich learning experiences that were more relevant and engaging than might have otherwise been possible at that time.
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Online lesson study
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Cate Challen
United States
Public Lesson Study for Professional Learning to disrupt inequity
Our team conducted a 9th grade mathematics lesson in front of a community audience, including all teaching staff at our school. With the assistance of two external, expert commentators, staff were able to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of several student-centered practices and see how they might disrupt inequities in the classroom.
Here we share learnings from our experience about ways in which lesson study enabled us to create more equitable classrooms for students, more opportunities for professional development and a chance to share our classrooms with parents and community members.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Cate Challen
United States
Preservice Mathematics Teacher Learning About Equity Through Lesson Study
In this session, we describe the design of an experimental mathematics methods course for preservice teachers (PSTs) that incorporated Lesson Study, as well as what the PSTs learned in this course. The research theme of the PSTs’ Lesson Studies was equity. We share the Lenses (Author et al., 2014) PSTs used to learn about equity in the course and the ways in which they approached equity in their Lesson Studies. We found that the frequent and varied use of the Lenses was a substantial contributor to PST learning about equity. PSTs also developed pedagogical content knowledge during the course, and we present findings related to variation in content learning while PSTs took on specific roles during the Lesson Study. We share a hypothetical learning trajectory for PSTs learning about equity to guide future work with PSTs and Lesson Study.
Reference
Author (2014)
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Melissa Graham
United States
Lesson Study as Equity Incubator
Participants in this session will see evidence from teams of Detroit Public Schools teachers who incubated equitable practices for teaching mathematics in lesson study. In a context where accountability measures dominate teachers' work, lesson study provides an incubator for the development of complex practices such as work on equity, while remaining responsive to district mandates. The cycle of lesson study is offered as a vital protective space for the iterative, reflective, long-term efforts needed for transforming teaching practice.
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Jennifer Lewis
United States
Lesson Study Challenges in a Teacher Education Course: Experiences of a Self-Study Group
The purpose of this collaborative inquiry was to enhance the professional practice of faculty members through lesson study. A seven-member Faculty of Education self-study group engaged in lesson study in a teacher education course. This study focused on providing teacher candidates with increased opportunities for action and expression during in-class instruction. This collaborative lesson study inquiry involved the four-step process of planning, doing, checking, and acting (PDCA). Data collection involved observations, personal reflections, meeting notes and audio recordings.
Challenges the group encountered during the study included ascertaining the goals of lesson study and offering critical feedback to each other. While this made decision-making more intricate and intentional, there was exceptional value in participating in the lesson study process. The results revealed three overarching themes: 1) challenges in classroom observations; 2) hesitation in providing supportive feedback to colleagues; and 3) deliberations regarding what constitutes expertise within subject-specific pre-service teacher education.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Alireza Moghaddam
Canada
Loft, Platform for Learning and Sharing Lesson Study
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Matt Easterday
United States
Concurrent C
Fostering Secondary Teachers’ Focus on Student Thinking Through Lesson Study
This presentation will focus on how, the presenter, a university researcher, supported secondary teachers’ focus on student thinking while participating in lesson study on mathematical modeling. For this talk, important strategies will be shared that the presenter employed as a lesson study facilitator in the United States. For example, tools that influenced the outcome of the lesson study will be presented such as a three-column lesson plan template and lesson study protocols. Outcomes of the teachers’ focus on student thinking throughout the lesson study will also be discussed. These outcomes include how the teachers: anticipated valid and emerging student responses for a modeling task, guided students to advance their thinking, and focused on student thinking to refine lesson plans. The lesson study presented will serve as an example to discuss how similar lesson studies might be conducted in various school settings throughout the United States.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Jenifer Hummer
District-Wide Lesson Study to Support Elementary Mathematics Curriculum Implementation with a Focus on Access and Equity for Students
This session will describe how a university mathematics teacher educator partnered with a district administrator and teachers to engage in lesson studies in order to support the implementation of a new elementary mathematics curriculum. The lesson studies focused on implementing the curriculum program to improve students’ understandings of mathematics and teachers’ equitable practices. We will share our process and tools that we used with lesson study teams including: a literature-based introduction to lesson study (cf., Wang-Iverson & Yoshida, 2005), a lesson planning template, and a guide for creating observation protocols for research lesson observers. We found that lesson study served as an important support for teachers in shifting to more student-centered and equitable practices. The process also helped teachers to understand and enact the curriculum program with integrity to the program’s design. This work suggests that lesson study could support other districts in adopting and implementing new curriculum
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Amy Roth McDuffie
United States
The practice of Lesson Study and equity in collaborative learning groups for mathematics classroom in Brazil
The universal accessibility to basic education in Brazil faces issues when it comes to the effective learning by all, which requires transformation of the understanding about the practices in the classrooms centered in the learning of students to enable knowledge, reasoning and argumentation with organized concepts, combined with communication skills. The equity issue of learning appears in two different perspectives: of the learning of teachers to transform their practices that can be shared and diffused in their schools; the adequation of pedagogy inside classrooms that transforms the lessons into inclusive learning opportunities for all students. The Study Groups led by the authors in two different regions of Brazil have worked the principles of Lesson Study in the continuing education of schoolteachers observing the effects of the equity in both perspectives above. The talk will present the progress of two groups, discussing the ongoing activities, illustrated by examples and teachers´ voices.
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YURIKO YAMAMOTO BALDIN
Brazil
Infusing Equity in the Lesson Study Process Can Increase Students' and Teachers' Agency and Change Teachers' Future Practices
The Alhambra Lesson Study team infused equity into its lesson study process by including the following aspects of equity during the planning: selecting, interviewing, and describing focal students; determining an equity-based research theme; creating a lesson hypothesis for the focal students; incorporating an equity commentator throughout the process; and anticipating focal students responses’ to the mathematics lesson. This inclusion of equity is in addition to the general components of lesson study (e.g. mathematics goal, mathematics commentator, lesson design, anticipating student responses, mock lesson, public lesson, and reflection). Designing lessons with specific focal students in mind provided the team an anchor to base their decisions on what practices to use and how to address imprecise student responses. They gained a greater understanding of what focal students knew and could do in mathematics. Focusing on both equity and high quality mathematics led to students’ and teachers’ agency and changing teachers’ practices.
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HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Susie W. Hakansson
United States
Integrating Multiple Perspectives through Triangulation of Formative Data Collection in Lesson Study: Perspectives from Out-of-School Time Education
We propose that educators participating in lesson study can deepen their understanding of their practice using a triangulated approach to assessment. They can achieve this by gathering formative data representing multiple perspectives: their own, the learners’, and their peers. This approach builds on the tradition of peer observation and feedback as the primary source of formative data; it may enhance the lesson study process by increasing representation of varied perspectives, and reducing barriers imposed by reliance on observation and peer assessment alone.
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Staying Connected: Lessons Learned Utilizing Technology to Connect Nonformal Education Lesson study Facilitators
The 4-H Youth Development Program is a world leader in offering nonformal experiential education to K-12 youth (National 4-H Council, 2015). Supported by 4-H educators, 4-H volunteers, and 4-H teen leaders, 4-H youth are reached through clubs, camps, afterschool programs, and school enrichment programs. Lesson study provides a dynamic pedagogical approach to support learning in experiential settings. According to researchers, the use of lesson study in 4-H is limited to a few 4-H state programs; however, the impacts from lesson study have been favorable (Schmitt-McQuitty, Worker, & Smith, 2019; Smith, 2008; Smith, 2013; Smith, Worker, Schmitt-McQuitty, Meehan, Lewis, Schoenfelder & Brian, 2017). This study examines the utilization of technology to bridge distances among 4-H educators in one state in delivering lesson study. Using a case study approach, findings from this investigation revealed lessons learned and promising practices in assembling, implementing and evaluating a lesson study team at a distance.
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BURST - Ignites
Janet Fox
United States
Meet The Authors
1900 - 1925
Eastern Time
Concurrent A
Concurrent B
Concurrent C
1925 - 1930
Eastern Time
Break
Session 10
1930 - 2000
Eastern Time
Concurrent A: LIVE Virtual Cafe
Issues of Equity
Concurrent B: LIVE Virtual Cafe
Effective Lesson Study Practices
Concurrent C: LIVE Virtual Cafe
Digital Lesson Study
Closing
2000 - 2015
Eastern Time
Introduction to WALS 2021 – Hong Kong/Macao
Closing
2015 - 2045
Eastern Time