Instructional Vision

Recently, the Rio School District has been working on developing our vision of Rio Instruction. Like many other Districts and organizations, we are pressed to do two simultaneous and daunting tasks;help learners build and develop basic literacies while helping them develop 21st century learning practices. The three charts posted above are a first tack at looking how we can do this. At Rio, we do know, that we don’t want to ask our learners to wait to become 21st century learners until they have the literacies as has been the case in many schools and Districts. Rather, we accept they are already 21st century learners and that our schools must work with them as individual and group learners, beginning with who and where they are as learners and growing from that unique place in time and space. For many of us at the Rio School District, this sounds like fun.