CUE CRAFT

Imagine classrooms where the barriers of curriculum and textbooks are minimized in order to maximize learning for all

Personalized lessons developed with #OpenPedagogyare built to be engaging, edtech infused learning experiences that create greater work efficiency for teachers and can improve student learning outcomes.

CUE Craft features instructional frameworks that allow for student choice, stimulate higher order thinking skills, and scaffold the development of students’ future ready skills, such as creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills. Students who consistently use CUE Craft protocols are also better able to master the content than with typical classroom practices. Other benefits for students include enhanced motivation, autonomy, and ability to self-regulate their learning.

Classroom instructors can integrate autonomy, choice, and motivation in a whole new way.

CUE Craft Protocols:

Are effective at any grade level
Cross all curricular areas
Infuse technology
Invite low-tech integration, paper-friendly
Universal Design Learning aligned
Maximize teacher independence from the lecture/textbook model
Are ideal for 1:1 efficacy
Are platform agnostic – use with any student device (or paper!!)

CUECraft + T3
Multi-Year Transformation

CUE Craft and Sonny Magana’s three-year engagement includes eleven PD events. Dr. Magana will kick things off with a day for district leadership to explain the power of adopting the T3 Transformation framework, followed by nine days of PD for multiple cohorts of teachers who will be trained in the CUE Craft Protocols, supported in the rollout of protocols.

The CUE Craft Multi-Year Transformation Plan is designed to transform a core group of educators in a given population that can create affordable, sustainable transformative change.

This program costs about the same as 190 textbooks.

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For school districts or schools looking to replace expensive corporately designed materials with the craft of teaching, there is no more effective combination than CUE Craft and Dr. Sonny Magana’s T3 framework. The CUE Craft Multi-Year Transformation Plan is designed to transform a core group of educators in a given population that can create affordable, sustainable transformative change. The CUE CRAFT/T3 three-year engagement includes a longitudinal study by Dr. Magana, THREE full-day events lead by Dr. Magana, and EIGHT days of CUE Craft Sessions (customizable for grade ranges and content areas), culminating in educators that have mastered multiple CUE Craft protocols and a public event of their transformational success. These educators will form the leadership core that can then transform any size district. This program costs about the same as 180 textbooks.

“Sonny Magana’s T3 Framework will provide schools and districts with the planning tools needed to go beyond the “$1,000 pencil.” His concept of technology as a disruptive force is exactly how we should be thinking about this historic moment of redesigning the culture of learning. Sonny’s book is filled with powerful stories and thoughtful questions that will inspire and empower educators to improve learning. Moreover, he has provided us with a framework for implementation with detail that simply has not existed with earlier models. I have known Sonny for twenty years. His wisdom comes from his incredible passion as an educator, school administrator, and now as a researcher.”

Alan November, Founder, November Learning
“Fresh, innovative, and revolutionary, Magana’s T3 Framework promises to challenge the status quo and invite disruptive practices in educational technology. Enhancing social entrepreneurship with technology, as the final stage of Magana’s framework for technology use in education, is a powerful proposal and a compelling vision worth pursuing by all educators.”

Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor University of Kansas
“The T3 Framework is a brilliant breakthrough in our understanding and use of technology for learning. Sonny Magana clearly portrays the nature and difference between translational, transformational, and transcendent use of technology. The identification of transcendent use is itself an innovation. On top of all this he shows us how to navigate through the T3 system with guiding questions, prompts, and rubrics. For those of us working on the frontier of deep learning Disruptive Classroom Technologies, and the T3 Framework is a much needed gift.”

Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
“Dr. Sonny Magana is a visionary leader regarding what education can be if we truly embrace the potential of technology. Unfortunately, the bright promise of technology is still in the distance, somewhere on the horizon. If one views schools and schooling through the lens of Magana’s T3 Framework, though, that horizon can become clearer, more attainable, and more inspirational.”

Robert J. Marzano, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer Marzano Research

Benefits for Students

Empowering
— lots of choice
Personalized
Future-ready
Collaborative
Creative

Benefits for Teachers

Saves time on assessment
Flexible to meet many instructional levels at once
Driven by student and instructor interests rather than a prescribed curriculum
Low and High Tech options

Benefits for Administrators

Affordable
Sustainable
Empowers communities to make it their own
Scalable — start with classrooms that are ready and move at the right-fit pace for your team

Some CUE Craft Protocols your teachers can learn in one day of professional development:

The CyberSandwich

A tech-infused twist on the classic Think-Pair-Share with boosted academic output. Easy to learn and easier to lead.

Cybersandwich Toolkit

The Fast and The Curious

Use free tools like Quizizz, Socrative and Formative to eliminate the need to assign packets, correct and collect packets and allow teachers to give instant feedback to students daily.

FATC Toolkit

Iron Chef

A tech-friendly twist on the classic jigsaw lesson using slides (Apple, Google or MS) and a quick build format (like the show) to minimize lecture and develop student use of the 4Cs and rapidly develop their oral/speaking/listening skills.

Iron Chef Toolkit

Math Reps

Instead of having students work on one concept a week, Math Reps combines clusters of skills so that students do 8-10 skills for several weeks – building automaticity and confidence at a blistering pace.

Math reps Toolkit

8 parts and Sentence parts

Imagine teaching all the standards students need for the first semester with TWO graphic organizers. The power is in the fact that kids will use 10-20 standards per day to plan, compose and execute a paragraph daily until mastery. Because of their UDL-friendly design, these two protocols are highly engaging for all students regardless of their skill level or language proficiency

8 parts Toolkit

3 Act Math

The best way to instill the 8 Mathematical Practices and also prepare your students for challenging performance tasks. Here’s a wonderful set of high quality 3 Act Math Lessons, Common Core aligned, from Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce)

3 act Math Toolkit

Bring CUE Craft to Your District

High-Value Option: Train your TOSA, Instructional Coaches, and highly-skilled staff first and then let them use #Openpedagogy to flip the rest of your district!

The protocols are like project workflows that achieve efficiency with customizable templates and are tightly aligned with UDL principles to support all learners. Scaffolding with a gradual release is emphasized through the iterative use of protocols. Protocols can be used in nearly all academic subjects and grade levels.

The mock classroom environment includes inquiry-based learning with lesson deconstruction talks; demonstrations of instructional strategies for creating edtech enriched and engaging.