Beyond Sit and Git: Transform to Professional Learning

Beyond Sit and Git: Making

Professional Learning Personal

Rob Darrow, Ed.D.

President, Online Learning VISIONS.com

December 2015

Website: http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com

http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com

Rob Darrow, Ed.D.. Rob @ onlinelearningvisions.com. Dec. 2015.

Introductions A little about you:

Teachers

Administrators

Other

K-6; 7-8; 9-12; college

Me

Consultant and Educational Counselor (www.ForwarDirections.org), Lifelong Californian

Worked for iNACOL, Online charter school principal, school librarian and teacher (Taught K-8)

http://www.ForwarDirections.org


Purpose

Purpose

To explore new models for professional

development: Start by changing the term

to:

Professional Learning

Goal

For each participant to begin to think

about how to make this shift.


Professional

Development –

Your Experiences?

Most Effective one ?

Least effective?

If I could wave a magic

wand and make it how

it should be?


Sit and Git Professional

Development (PD)




COE

ADA

BOE

RTI

IP

AP

RTI

FERPA ELLBL

NAEP

LCFF

LEA

LCAP

DL

OL

CUE

ESS

CBE

CMS

OER


PD to PL:

Students and Teachers

Choice

Compensation

Competency based (learning in your

own way in your own time)


Blended Learning and PL

Any time

Any place

Any pace

(good enough for students, it is

certainly good enough for

teachers!


Six Elements Emerged

Result:

A Roadmap for

Blended

Learning

Implementation


Successful Blended Learning

involves Six Elements

Leadership

Professional Learning /

Professional Development

Teaching/Instructional Practice

Operations / Admin

Systems/Policy

Content

Technology

A Roadmap for Blended Learning Implementation.

iNACOL, 2013.


School Implementation Both formal and informal (Schedule ongoing group and

individual support – online and face-to-face)

Modeling, webinars, small conferences, workshops, cohort meetings

Support teacher / school librarian / implementation managers are key

Promising Practices Scheduled Time (within work week)

Participating Teachers as Resources

Professional Sharing / Professional Learning Community

School Support

2. Professional Learning

(NOT Development)



Is your school Future Ready ?

Check out the Professional

Learning Resources

Professional Learning Toolkit:

http://tech.ed.gov/futureready/pro

fessional-learning/

http://tech.ed.gov/futureready/professional-learning/


From Textbook to Online Teaching

Online

Teaching

Textbook EnhancedTeaching

TechnologyEnhancedTeaching

Web / Online

Enhanced

Teaching


Transforming to PL

Choice

Customization

Compensation (e.g. consider badging)


Choice


Customization


Compensation

Units

Monetary

Badging


Changing teacher roles

Work Alone

Implement

Curriculum

Serendipitous

professional

development

Collaboratively design,

develop, deliver and

assess highly effective

instruction.

Build learning modules

and scaffold learning

systems

Select and participate in

effective, ongoing,

focused,, differentiated,

and collaborative

professional learning



Standards / Reports New York

New Jersey

Kentucky

California

And others…


Ca Dept of Ed Professional

Learning Standards (2015)

professional development … poorly planned ...

disappointing results.

externally derived and delivered, disconnected from

system goals and educator practice … not tailored to the

specific needs of students, educators, and schools.

does not contribute to a broader process of transforming

their practice.


Ca Professional Learning

Standards

Rooted in student and educator needs

Focused on content and pedagogy

Designed to ensure equitable outcomes

Ongoing, intensive, and embedded in practice

Collaborative, with an emphasis on shared

accountability

Supported by adequate resources

Coherent and aligned with other standards,

policies, and programs


What needs to happen to

transform to PL?

Share ideas with a partner



Change the name

Move to DIY

Choice

Competency

Compensation


Doing things right or

doing the right

thing?

“If we teach today’s students as

we taught yesterday’s we rob

them of tomorrow.” John Dewey. ”Schools of Tomorrow”,

1915.


Or....

“If we teach the way we were

taught or the way colleges

taught us to teach, we are

robbing ourselves of the

opportunities to teach with

the tools of

the present and future.” Rob Darrow. Paraphrase of John Dewey.


- Nelson Mandela


No Excuses !


No Excuses !

To not transform to professional

learning: better teaching, better meet

needs of students

Need policies and money

If you don’t like the policies, change them

If you don’t have the money, write a grant

Build a network of believers


No Excuses !

For teachers to not use

technology and the Internet to

learn and teach with

Professional learning and

leadership

Bottom up … and top down

You have the power!


No Excuses !

To not learn on your own – as

administrators or instructors

Free professional learning all over the

place!

Share what you are doing…

Via blog

Via wiki

Via Twitter

Via Facebook

Via YouTube


Free Professional Learning

Weekly Tweetchats

Free webinars

Free MOOCs and Online Conferences

CUE Inc (recordings):

https://www.youtube.com/user/cueinc

ASCD: http://www.ascd.org/professional-

development/webinars.aspx

iNACOL:

http://www.inacol.org/events/webinars/

EdCamps / MeetUps / Hackathons

https://www.youtube.com/user/cueinc

http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars.aspx

http://www.inacol.org/events/webinars/


Free Professional Learning

Blogs / online journals

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/how-to-

fuel-the-innovation-engine-in-learning/

Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/

Faculty Focus, Higher Ed Teaching

Strategies: http://www.facultyfocus.com/

Via Email: ASCD Smart Brief, EdTech:

http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fHmbBYpbkskkoIjwfDc

XdUfCigOl

imagineEd – Subscribe:

http://tinyletter.com/skunkworksedu

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/how-to-fuel-the-innovation-engine-in-learning/

http://www.edutopia.org/

http://www.facultyfocus.com/

http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fHmbBYpbkskkoIjwfDcXdUfCigOl

http://tinyletter.com/skunkworksedu


Free Professional Learning This Month!

Dec. 5:Tech Tools to Enhance Classroom

http://live.classroom20.com/

Get Ready for eRate 2.0 webinar:

https://thejournal.com/webcasts/2015/12/xirrus

-get-ready-for-erate-120315.aspx

Just finished: Global Education Conference

(recordings)

http://www.globaleducationconference.com/

K-12 Online Conference (Yearly in

October) – http://k12onlineconference.org/

http://live.classroom20.com/

https://thejournal.com/webcasts/2015/12/xirrus-get-ready-for-erate-120315.aspx

http://www.globaleducationconference.com/

http://k12onlineconference.org/


Professional Learning / Organizations

CUE Organization:

www.cue.org

ESS – Today!

iNACOL: www.inacol.org

http://www.cue.org

http://www.inacol.org


Build your own

Professional Learning Network

Via your blog

Via Twitter

Via Facebook

Via colleagues

Via most any social media

With each other ! (a PLN)


Research Shows:

Policies Important

Tech Engages Students

Professional Learning Important

But, teachers and leaders

are the MOST important!


Go out and make it happen

Just DO it!

Do the right things!

Use the technology!

Manage your learning and

your digital footprint!


As we consider providing more engaged learning for our students via online and blended learning …remember that…

“The only thing harder than starting something new – is

stopping something old”

- Russell Ackoff -“Redesigning Society”



Think in terms of 3-5 years from now (not just today).

Think about what can be, not what is.

This is a journey, not a destination.


Resources

http://plpnetwork.com/2011/08/18/out-with-professional-development-in-with-

professional-learning/

Standards for Professional Learning:

http://learningforward.org/standards#.VlnQ_9-rRPM

http://www.plainfieldnjk12.org/Staff/Teacher%20Tools/Chapter%201.pdf

California: http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ps/qpls.asp

Dept of Ed:

New York Professional Learning Toolkit:

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/ProfessionalLearning/P

LHandbook.htm

Dept of Ed. / Future Ready Intitiative: Professional Learning Toolkit:


Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/professional-learning-communities-

collaboration-how-to

http://plpnetwork.com/2011/08/18/out-with-professional-development-in-with-professional-learning/

http://learningforward.org/standards#.VlnQ_9-rRPM

http://www.plainfieldnjk12.org/Staff/Teacher Tools/Chapter 1.pdf

http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ps/qpls.asp

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/ProfessionalLearning/PLHandbook.htm


http://www.edutopia.org/professional-learning-communities-collaboration-how-to


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