Page 2 July 28, 2016 CALIS To Work With School District In Professional Development Efforts By Cristian Vasquez The Hawthorne School Board approved an agreement with the USC Center for Active Learning in International Studies [CALIS] that will provide professional development in the Four Worlds of History Model to district teachers. Through the agreement, USC will spend six days conducting on-site planning meetings tailored to aide lead teachers and coaches in the application of the Four Worlds of History Model. “The guiding principle for all CALIS efforts is to connect USC—as a world-class university resource— to support the civic mission of schools,” states the USC Dornsife website. “Universities are a source of new knowledge and effective frames for analysis--which are critical to advancing excellence and innovation in teaching and learning.” Through this outreach program, CALIS, aims at promoting independent and critical thinking in 6th-12th grade students through the adaptation of practices considered to be the best in pre-college education. “CALSI has received national recognition for its innovative use of analytical tools in social sciences,” states the supporting document included in the board agenda. “The Common Core focus on critical thinking is an exciting national recommitment to the central mission of education. CALIS is honored to work with the Hawthorne School District to support middle school teachers with instructional strategies, materials and assessments that realize this mandate.” CALIS is an analytical framework that was developed in order help students approach the studying of history and the social sciences by taking on more content, with a higher degree of complexity. “A new adapted analytical model, the Four Worlds of History (4WH), is a framework that distinguishes aspects of society – political, economic, social, and cultural – as social science factors,” states the USC Dornsife website. “The frame is used to illustrate relationships between factors; it enables students to compare societies, past to present.” The Hawthorne School District teaches history/social science [HSS] in all three of its middle schools through a core program. As of the agreement’s approval, district teachers with multiple subject credentials were responsible for HSS classes and English Language Arts [ELA]. Through the services outlined in the agreement, to take place July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2017, those same teachers will receive support in using “analytical tools and to explore interdisciplinary use of tools with ELA,” states supporting documents. “The District has identified Literary Coaches to act as a planning team with Teresa Hudock, CALIS Director,” states attached documents to the agenda. “Teresa [Hudock] will work with coaches to plan trainings for teachers. She will also work to build the team’s capacity to provide school site implementation support for teachers.” By using the Four Worlds [4W] as the primary analytical tool, the training will focus on engaging in active reading strategies that will facilitate information management, the ability to infer concepts and to develop the capacity to connect passages in textbooks and primary sources. “Because the Four Worlds is an analytical process, the process must be developed each time it is applied to new content,” states the USC Dornsife website. “We capitalize on previous work, but there is new territory with each application -- to conceptualize the issue, design the focus question, map the content, and support the sub-topics and context building.” Hudock attended two ELA meetings [June 6 and 16] in order to review study materials with the ELA team and establish the first units in the program. Instructional materials developed by, or though CALIS, will be available on an online-database that serves as a teaching resource via a digital file cabinet. Through the Activities Database, which is free and unrestricted, teachers and other CALIS partners can write, adapt and collaborate on material, all while being cited. “The source information includes their affiliated schools or organizations. As others download and further adapt these materials-all credit and source lines, for teachers as well as for USC CALIS, should remain intact as published to the database,” concludes the supporting documents. • Police Reports Mon 7/11/16 to Sun 7/16/16 ROBBERY S Doty Av/W Imperial Hy Parking Lot Mon 7/11/16 12:18 ROBBERY 14100 S CORDARY AV PARKING LOT, GARAGE, PAID Mon 7/11/16 12:51 Property Taken: $100’S AND $20’S ROBBERY W EL SEGUNDO BL/S HAWTHORNE BL STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY Mon 7/11/16 15:42 Property Taken: black/tan steve madden purse, $375.00-U.S. Currency, miscellaneous toiletries, miscellaneous paperwork, social security card, birth certificate, miscellaneous make-up ROBBERY 2200 W 115TH ST STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY Tue 7/12/16 06:27 Property Taken: Plastic Bag With Clothing ROBBERY 3800 BLK 135TH ST STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY Wed 7/13/16 23:15 Property Taken: Black leather Dockers wallet, CA ID, card for Samsung Core Prime, white cell phone Weapon: WRENCH, HAMMER, ETC ROBBERY 14100 S CERISE AV STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY Fri 7/15/16 18:48 Property Taken: Blk Samsung Galaxy S5 BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 4500 W 137TH PL HOUSE Mon 7/11/16 09:55 Property Taken: Gray 12x12 safe, Black leather Seiko watch., Green leather Seiko watch., miscellaneous jewelry. 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