Sounds like the directions to set up a digital professional learning community with staff and faculty.
Adopt a paradigm that views the community construction process as one of co-design that compliments and enhances your organization’s mission and values.
Create an emergent, evolving co-design with the collaboration of your intended members in developing a shared vision, community niche, and ongoing feedback loop on ways to improve design and usability.
Utilization of a loose governance through light leadership roles in the initial launch, such as, community organizer, expert voice/subject matter expert, cognitive coaches, moderator/facilitator, help desk or support. Then build to an evolving leadership pattern that focuses on self-directed learning and self-governance.
Cognitive coaches and support. Then comes self-direction.
Careful selection of a community organizer who should have passion, vision, enthusiasm, a clear understanding of professional practice, who is visionary and must not be afraid of innovation or changes
Creation of profile customization, identity tools, subgroup areas and activities to build trust and sense of community
Creation of a tool set that should enable like-minded individuals to form subgroups around shared goals and interests
Tools not rules – When possible use tools to help members self-govern
Inclusion of expert voices with name recognition that will bring newcomers and experienced community members together to share and learn from each other
Initiate regular content around relevant provocative issues and help members develop a sense of ownership
James Surowiecki on the mainstreaming of performance excellence. From athletics to manufacturing, we've become freakishly good. How come some areas still lag behind?
How about school-home texting? We’re asking parents if they’d want it. Could we video the next workshop and put it online? Or maybe literacy tips are best shared face-to-face: a teacher, another parent, and I brainstormed together about turning a typical parent breakfast into a Literacy Breakfast that would get the reading tips directly to parents who could ask immediate questions of teacher and literacy coach.