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blog to read and then share/debate with a partner some of the topics.

Identify an outcome/objective for the meeting

Have each educator research and share 1 neuroscience fact

Devote 10-15 minutes at meetings for everyone to read a few educational articles on Twitter and then share them with others

”Flip” your meetings

video 3 short segments of their instruction and then analyze their lessons

Research

complete a 3-2-1 (3 facts learned, 2 comments/connections, 1 question)

book study around-one chapter for each month.

Have departments or grade levels take charge of a meeting

Determine an instructional focus

Share student work

Have students share Project Based Learning (PBLs) examples

Watch and discuss a TED talk

sharing and practicing a few of the effective tech tools

favorite educational joke/story to share

Volunteers share 1-2 things they appreciate about someone else on staff

Important school-level supports tend to be present in schools with higher concentrations of innovative teaching.

Coherent systemic support is also essential

The methods and findings from this research have resulted in a new professional development program called 21CLD (21st Century Learning Design). This hands-on program offers an accessible set of research-grounded definitions, rubrics and examples to help teachers recognize and strengthen the 21st century learning opportunities that their lessons offer to students. For each skill, the program expands the depth of these opportunities – not just can students work together, but are they really building the skills they need to collaborate substantively and successfully with other people? 21CLD also helps build a common language among teachers within a school, and provides a framework for the collaboration and other supports that can begin to bridge the gap between the rhetoric of 21st century learning and the real skills students will need for success in this changing world.