DNA Group

DNA:  Duality Noticings and Actions (Curating Technologies to construct a powerful Summer Institute)

The foundational concepts of using artifacts and instructional practices to construct a powerful Summer Literacy Institute resemble a weaving of the two dynamics in order to create a fluid inquiry learning community.  The visual representation of this interweaving aspect can be equated to the DNA strands which symbolize LIFE - as in the life of the shared literacy experience.  Examples of this construction would include the following:

Artifacts:                                                         Instructional Practices:

Ethnology of the Day                                          Sharing out

Writing Notebooks                                              Quick Writes

Inquiry Into My Practice IIMP                                3 x 2 Debriefing Graphic Organizer

Authentic Common Language                                noticings and wonderings

Explore - Envision - Enact Process                          reflective journaling

Artifact Boxes                                                   gallery walk

Literacy Boxes                                                  sacred writing reflections

found poems                                                    text coding

                                                                    scaffolding

                                                                    t-charts

                                                                    whip around

                                                                    thinking partners

The above concepts are reflective of the multiple combinations discovered on the DNA strands.  The artifacts and the instructional practices are interchangeable, ever evolving, and are able to function in duality as the processes of shared discovery of literacy develop the enriched community.