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Diane Kasaczun

The Tempered Radical: Organizing Learning Teams in a PLC - 0 views

  • Rather than resisting this reality, refocus the work that learning teams are doing.  Make short-term projects with specific objectives and outcomes the norm.  Have self-selected teams define exactly what it is that they plan to study during your in-service days in August.  In January, require progress reports backed up by student learning results.  In June, share what each team has learned with the entire faculty and plan new focus groups for the fall. 
  • Rather than resisting this reality, refocus the work that learning teams are doing.  Make short-term projects with specific objectives and outcomes the norm.  Have self-selected teams define exactly what it is that they plan to study during your in-service days in August.  In January, require progress reports backed up by student learning results.  In June, share what each team has learned with the entire faculty and plan new focus groups for the fall.
  • Do I know colleagues who will choose to meet with teachers that share planning periods because they’ve got busy personal lives and can’t find the time to meet outside of school hours?  Sure.  In fact, I’d even bet that the majority of your teachers would choose to work with peers in the same grade level and content area.
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  • But you’re also going to reenergize professional learning for some of your employees, too.  Teachers that are motivated to learn with one another and who can get into the meat of collective study without having to muddle their way around in the relationship-nightmare that cause new teams to stumble are going to love their time together
  • self-selected learning teams clearly articulate their purpose and their plan of study for the year.  If teams can’t connect their intentions to your school’s mission or vision,
  • elf-selected teams would have to use meaningful data to make decisions and would have to show how they were assessing student learning and changing direction to ensure student success.
Randy Ziegenfuss

National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education - 0 views

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    Obama administration National Ed Tech Plan proposed in March 2009
Randy Ziegenfuss

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning - 0 views

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    This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Diane Kasaczun

More Thoughts on 21st Century Literacies - 2 views

shared by Diane Kasaczun on 08 Jul 10 - Cached
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      In the beginning, this was the biggest reason some of my co-workers were afraid to use technology in their classrooms. What if the program won't work? Won't I look like I do not know what I am doing? It was difficult to get some to see that students need to see you problem solve since that is where we need to go in education.
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    "Extended interviews with educators on the meaning of "21st century literacies," recommendations for using new technologies, and ideas for updating lesson plans to support 21st century learning. "
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