 Hi my name is Tracy Tokahama Espinosa and this is a brief video on differentiation through bundle making. We are going to introduce three big ideas in this video that we're going to develop together when we meet and I hope that there are things that will inspire you to sort of change some of your fundamental teaching practices as far as how we differentiate within our classrooms. Before we begin I want to invite you to get out a piece of paper, write things down, write down this address, explore some materials and if I were to ask you why I would ask you to write something down, think about that. Why do we ask kids to take notes in our class? Why do we ask any student, anybody who wants to learn to do that? Basically there's two fundamental pillars of learning and this is what we're going to hover around when we meet. Those are attention systems and memory systems. Without attention without memory you just don't have learning at all. So please do take some notes because at the very end when we meet we're going to talk about things that might be new information to you, things that you want to learn more about and things that might contribute to a change in your practice. So do keep those ideas in mind and then if you would like before we meet please send them to me especially the things that you're interested in learning more about so that we can dig into those when we are together as a group. So the first big idea is that we all have this big challenge of celebrating human variability. We've had so many different kids in our class and there's so many different needs that we have but rather than approaching this as I have to do individual instruction for each kid, how is it that we can approach this with a different kind of question? You know how is it that I get everybody what they need to meet the same objectives? If different people need different things at different times that they're learning processes, how can I design my course or my classroom to be able to provide those safety nets of information and resources for those kids? So that would be the overall objective that we have here. So this means using all of the old tools that have always worked right but adding to them maybe some new tools that we have from the digital world that a lot of us have just sort of been dumped into more recently due to the pandemic but that have really opened our eyes to the ability to individualize and maybe personalize some levels of instruction so that that can be offloaded to individual practice where needed so to shore up those prerequisite skills for those kids so that when we're together when we do synchronous activities we can actually focus as a group on other types of learning objectives. So we'll be digging into those tools and the heart of this workshop has to do with many libraries. How do we take those you know typical resources that we've always had those worksheets and all the rest of that but then complement them with other things not just the readings or the videos but we can add to those things TED Talks or Gamification or apps that now exist that would contribute to our ability to differentiate for what each individual kid might need. So we're going to talk about how we do that and spend most of our time really thinking about and building our own first bundle together so how is it that we can work on a second grade bundle that addresses kids who might come in with different levels of literacy for example and we have to get them to a certain stage by the end of second grade but different kids are coming in with different gaps in their skill sets so how is it that we create a bundle of information that can provide this variety of entry points to the material so that everybody gets what they need so we're going to talk about how to do those searches so if you do want to tell me something that you're interested about please do send me an email beforehand and we will take the time then to work around your questions during the workshop as we build out our bundles for differentiation. So I look forward to seeing you. Thanks.