How can educators in my district collaborate with colleagues to curate and share resources with each other? I work for a district that has 20+ elementary schools and I find that it is difficult to collaborate with other educators in my grade level across the district to share resources and ideas. In the six years …
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What would happen if instructional leaders treated the professional learning of our teachers as the most important and engaging project-based lesson we were fortunate to facilitate? What would happen if the accountability of this learning was anchored in the intentional collaboration with colleagues that resulted in authentic learning experiences (ISTE 4a)? If we want… Continue reading Co-Learning & Collaboration Builds Collegial Experiences
This quarter as part of Seattle Pacific University’s EDTC 6103 Teaching, Learning, and Assessment 2 course, I investigated the question: …
While researching around my question – How can we collaborate with others to move from talking about exciting ideas to authentic implementation regularly and with efficiency during planning time? – I reflected on how collaboration has looked for me this last decade. I have been lucky to be at schools where there have been fellow …
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Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. Educators: 4a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology 4b. Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and …
Two memories stand out from my early elementary years: checking out my first public library book, which was about a day in the life of children in Japan who were “getting up as I was going to bed,” and writing a report on Australia and learning the song Waltzing Matilda. By today’s standards, these are … Continue reading “Global Collaborator”
Seesaw for Family Engagement “We have 50 years of research showing that what families do matters. Whether it’s loving school, college access, good attendance, or academic success, family engagement has positive correlations with all sorts of indicators.” – Dr. Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D. . There are many studies about the academic and social-emotional benefit to […]
For this weeks module, we were tasked with researching digital age best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. For my post, I wanted to focus on best learning practices and how educators can seek to build learning networks that explore …
Unit by Design For our EDCT 6102 course, we were tasked with using the Unit by Design framework (UbD) to plan a lesson or unit that incorporated digital citizenship into our classroom. UbD has you start with identifying desired results, determining acceptable evidence and then planning the learning and instruction. This backwards planning is […]
This quarter we have had a large focus on professional development. With this weeks guiding questions “What role should administrators play in professional learning programs and how do we advocate for their involvement and adequate professional learning support for technology-based …
