DEBATE ACROSS CURRICULUM PROMO
M. Callen | 20 June
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JUNE 2012 DEBATE PROMO FOR SCHOOLS
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Classroom //School Hallway #1 STILL
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TEXT:
Improve all students
Retain excellent teachers
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TRACK ONE: What if you had the opportunity
to improve the academic performance of all
your students…
Retain and attract excellent teachers..
Meet and exceed ‘Common Core State
Standards’
Exceed Common Core State Standards
If you had the opportunity, would you take it?
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#11 or #12 BROLL DEBATE SCIENCE
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Debate Across Curriculum text
BOSTON// STEVE #1
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TRACK TWO: Debate Across Curriculum is
your opportunity to help create successful
students, successful schools and successful
systems.
+ 80% Teachers say debate makes them
more effective teachers.
STEVE: What debate across curriculum really
is, its not just debate, its good teaching. Its
training the teacher how to move from a
classroom where they’re the center of
attention where they’re telling kids stuff
where they have to write down and memorize
to a classroom where students are truly
engaged in control of the classroom and in
control of their learning.
TRACK THREE: More than eighty per cent of
teachers in a recent survey in Massachusetts,
said debate made them not more effective
debate teachers, but more effective
teachers.
BOSTON / #1 Kristina 01 56 – 02 505
SVF/ Kristina Buenafe, Teacher
High School Math
KRISTINA: It’s kinda like the perils of urban
schooling tend to repeat themselves if we
don’t try new lessons or take risks in your
teaching.
GRAPHICS/
Common Core State Standards
Embodied in the academic debate process.
TRACK FOUR: Debate Across Curriculum offers
a skill set that addresses overall requirements
of ‘Common Core State Standards’. Indeed,
SVF/ STEVE STEIN , Developer
Debate Across Curriculum
GRAPHICS/STATS
Debate Across Curriculum
DEBATE ACROSS CURRICULUM PROMO
-2CCSS is embodied in the academic debate
process.
MAY INTERVIEWS/ JAMES #1
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SVF/ JAMES ROLAND, Developer
Debate Across Curriculum
Text Re-emphasizes Debate Across Curriculum
for ALL students
Ravi’s group , darien and ted debating in
social study classes
JAMES: We’re teaching students critical
listening skills, critical thinking skills, the
ability to defend a particular position, the
ability to critically write, but also to be able
to package all that and be great oral
communicators as well.
TRACK FIVE: Schools across the country,
including many in metropolitan Atlanta, are
already using Debate Across Curriculum. It’s
designed for all students, not just high
achievers, in middle and high schools. And is
effective in all subjects, From Social
Science…..
NATSOT kids debating
TRACK SIX: …to Math.
Kristina’s Group Debating in Mat
Natsot kids debating math
GRAPHICS/ STATS
Debate Across Curriculum
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT + 61%
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
+ 56 %
CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
+ 55%
TRACK SEVEN: Surveys of those who
implemented Debate Across Curriculum tell
the same powerful story:
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SVF NATILEEWN-VAN, Principal
Middle School
An increase in skill development
An increase in student engagement
An increase in content knowledge
NATILEE: When students are assisting with the
planning, they’re not just passengers on the
ship, they’re crew, so every person is going to
have their hands involved in the success of
the school.
Glenn Pellham Foundation animation
TRACK EIGHT: For almost 3 decades, The
Glenn Pelham Foundation for Debate
Education has pioneered the benefits of
debate and its expansion from an after school
-3activity to a viable education tool in the
classroom through Debate Across Curriculum.
#1 JAMES
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VO/ Slo mo shots of kids faces and kids
JAMES: At then end of the day what makes a
human being human is the capacity to
articulate, communicate and advocate for
yourself. and debate fundamentally provides
students with the skill set in order to do that.
And not just do that but to do it effectively.
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DEBATE ACROSS CURRICULUM
Your Opportunity for Success
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