The DBQ Project California Summit

The DBQ Project would like to welcome our California partners to participate in an afternoon summit to examine ways of effectively combating learning loss through the use of the DBQ Project curriculum.

After spending the better part of two years online, many districts throughout California are now facing the reality of learning loss amongst their students. Additionally, working in the most diverse state in the country, California educators must be cognizant of the unique assets our students bring to the table. Doing so will help us reach all students. We will be exploring two strands during the summit:

• The 6-Step Method as a Key to Student Engagement and Culturally Responsive Teaching
• Visible Learning and the DBQ Project: Implementing Practices that Accelerate Student Learning

The Summit will be held in conjunction with the CCSS Conference

Cost: FREE

Date: March 4, 2022

Where: Hyatt Orange County in the city of Garden Grove.

Time: 3:15-5:45

Who: Curriculum Directors, TOSAs and Lead DBQ Teachers

Hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages will be served

How can teaching with The DBQ Project help teachers build their students’ confidence and spark their interest in learning? Using explicit strategies to teach skills and promote independent thinking must replace teacher-centered content delivery. This session will focus on engagement strategies teachers need to use to build a more inclusive classroom culture. The focus of this session will be to highlight teaching opportunities embedded in the 6-Step Method that encourage students to express their own views and draw their own conclusions about important, relevant historical and social issues.

Applying the research of John Hattie and other pedagogy experts, we will explore high impact instructional principles and practices that can be employed throughout the DBQ Project Six-Step Method. John Hattie has identified over a hundred high-impact factors that can accelerate the learning process, and which can help combat the learning loss caused by COVID's disruption to our education system.

During the session we will examine where and how the following promising principles can be transformed into concrete and effective strategies.

• Motivation
• Elaborate Encoding
• Cognitive Load
• Feedback

Many of these principles are directly addressed through the DBQ Project Method, while others can be easily and seamlessly integrated into the learning process.

Beth Montgomery and Mollie Hackett

Co-Directors of Professional Development and Partnerships

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