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Our Models of Connected Learning
 * EA iCoaches**: //Empowered Role, Empowering Others//

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**February** //Your Personal Learning Network: Feeding Yourself & Feeding Others//
 * Our Models of Connected Learning
 * Our Roles in Digital Spaces
 * Blog, wiki, or other site
 * Diigo
 * Twitter
 * Other...?
 * Drawing Critical Connections
 * Literacies to...
 * T-2-4
 * [[file:Balanced Literacy Graphic.pdf|"Balanced" Literacy Material]]
 * Early Adopters & Balanced Literacy--How do they fit together?
 * [[file:Rigor and Relevance Rubrics.pdf|Rigor & ]] [[file:Rigor and Relevance Rubrics.pdf|Relevance Material]]
 * Growing the Culture of a Learning Community
 * Moving Forward

**January** //Your Personal Learning Network: Feeding Yourself & Feeding Others//
 * Reflecting & Connecting
 * Please visit your personal learning journal (linked at top of page)
 * Review your post from our //Reflecting Forward// activity in October
 * Consider the responses you posted to each question...
 * How did your actions, language and priorities support your vision/mission as an Early Adopter iCoach (aka your destination postcard)?
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your //__own__// "optimism and hope alive"?
 * Reflect on the goal you set for yourself...
 * How is that goal evident in your every day actions, language and priorities? I did a great job of being out and going into classrooms at the beginning. As the benchmark and practice STAAR seasons have begun, I am finding this more difficult. I am going to make it a priority to calendar times in teachers' rooms and stick to my schedule. I have learned some valuable lessons with calendaring and being prepared ahead of time for meetings, as I never know what might suddenly arise to take my time/plan.
 * What have you been able to achieve, given your efforts? I have built more relationships with my teachers and have really grown professionally with learning how to effectively work with adults. I have more confidence in me and my role and am ready to learn more so that I can be more helpful to my teachers with their growth.
 * What specific strategies have you used to keep your __//own//__ "optimism and hope" alive (Developing A Positive Mindset)? I have read books and articles on working with different styles of people and how to stay true and authentic to myself at the same time. I talk regularly with other iCoaches (most especially EA ones) and Sara, whether it be for moral support, ideas, or mentoring. This has helped TREMENDOUSLY!!! It has also built a safe group of colleagues that I can be honest with and receive help and support on this journey.
 * In what areas would you find additional support helpful? The thought of not having this special time with the EA iCoaches and Sara next year is extremely disappointing and we've not been told this will be gone for sure. So being able to have this support network that I feel is really strong and invaluable next year would be great!
 * How will you continue to "seek the small wins" and "illuminate the bright spots"? I'm considering creating a special journal for my "small wins" so that I will always remember them, especially when I'm in a dry, dark place in my role and journey. Illuminating the "bright spots" will be through technology and also on a more personal note through cards, emails, etc.
 * TPaCK WebQuest
 * In what areas would you find additional support helpful? The thought of not having this special time with the EA iCoaches and Sara next year is extremely disappointing and we've not been told this will be gone for sure. So being able to have this support network that I feel is really strong and invaluable next year would be great!
 * How will you continue to "seek the small wins" and "illuminate the bright spots"? I'm considering creating a special journal for my "small wins" so that I will always remember them, especially when I'm in a dry, dark place in my role and journey. Illuminating the "bright spots" will be through technology and also on a more personal note through cards, emails, etc.
 * TPaCK WebQuest
 * TPaCK WebQuest
 * TPaCK WebQuest


 * November** //Less Is More; More & Different//
 * Less Is More
 * More & Different
 * Connecting our effort and achievement// : // []
 * review, reflect, respond
 * commenting
 * question starters
 * reflection prompts
 * online discussion rubric
 * quad chart
 * summary of elements in each category
 * The Diagonals?

**October** //** Leading Learning... **// include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="TEKS" limit="100"
 * Welcome Back!
 * Reflecting Back: "First 5 Weeks"
 * Using CSI thinking routine, paint a clear picture of your reality of "The First 5 Weeks"
 * Post to your page
 * Reflecting Forward: Developing A Positive Mindset
 * How did your actions, language and priorities support your vision/mission as an Early Adopter iCoach (aka your destination postcard)?
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your //__own__// "optimism and hope alive"?
 * [|Creating Edutopia]
 * Summary of activity
 * Key differences?
 * Talking TEKS - //it's all about the verbs, baby!//
 * In pairs, pick a TEK that your teachers will address this year
 * Create a New Page:
 * **Title**: Discipline, TEK
 * **Template**: TEKS Exploration
 * **Tags**: ea, TEKS, last name of each partner
 * Identify the Knowledge and Skills statement
 * Identify the Student Expectations
 * Cognitive Rigor (verbs in //both// K&S and SE)
 * The level at which students are expected to perform in order to meet the standard
 * Determined by the verbs used in both the knowledge and skills statements AND student expectations
 * Content Rigor (demonstrations)
 * The content items for which students must demonstrate understanding at the appropriate cognitive level in order to meet the standard.
 * How might digital resources serve to support or enrich student learning and/or demonstrations of understanding?
 * [|Activity Types], College of William & Mary
 * Crowd Sourcing - 3 Rounds
 * Communication & Relationships:
 * How will you communicate the efforts of your teachers (EA and other)? (illuminating the bright spots - blog, wiki, Twitter, etc.)
 * How will you encourage, manage and support sign-ups for in-class support and planning time (iCal, Google Calendar, etc.)
 * How will you maintain consistent and transparent communication with your building administrators?
 * How will you leverage your communication tools to bridge the efforts of EA teachers with those of non-EA teachers?
 * Building Your Vehicle:
 * 1) Individually, design or strengthen your teacher resource
 * 2) Post to our Professional Learning activity
 * 3) Gather feedback from team - adjust, modify, tweak
 * 4) Try out resource during the month ahead, documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collecting artifacts from teacher use.

**September** **At This Moment...** **Shaping Your Opportunity**
 * Review Day 1 Reflection (discussion area)
 * EA Teacher Impact
 * In groups of 4
 * **choose** who will read and represent each component
 * as you read, take bullet point notes and be prepared to:
 * summarize article
 * identify critical elements and how you see each connecting with SBISD EA experience
 * consider and share why you think the idea behind your resource is being offered as one of 4 shaping features of EA perspective
 * **reconvene** as a team of 4
 * **work together** to share notes, summaries, elements, connections and believed significance
 * **individually reflect** on your discussion and how/where it connects to the identified NEED for change (//doing some things differently, as opposed to doing something else//)
 * create a bullet point list on an index card or post-it note
 * **collaborate** to draft a job description for your role as a coach of the __**EA**__ effort
 * Every Hand, Every Mind, Every Voice - //job description must represent elements of each members thinking// (bullet point lists)
 * **record & share** your job description - (audio, video or text-//with-//image; post it to each of your personal pages)[[image:sbisdlearnsymphony/GrnBootsDig.jpg align="right"]]
 * Resources
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**Considering Teacher Focus...** > ** Narrowing Your Own Focus... ** Papert
 * Review
 * Connect
 * Question
 * 1) Dissatisfaction Dump
 * 2) If Only... additions?
 * 3) Greatest Hopes & Worst Fears
 * 4) Pull A Thread
 * 5) Share
 * 6) Ideate (5 min) - individually, post to page
 * 7) Prototype (10-15 min w sketch)
 * 8) Test (//on-going, with shared reflections, iterations and continued testing....)//

**Growing the Culture of Our Learning** - //you are what others see, consistency counts!//
 * Developing Our Learning Community **
 * Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement - Attributes of Professional Learning Communities
 * Read & Consider:
 * What elements of a learning community are already present among our team?
 * Of these elements, which are our strongest? Which need our attention?
 * What is the purpose of our goal?
 * How does our goal represent and support our shared vision and values?
 * How do our individual goals point to our purpose?
 * What do we want or need to avoid to make the most of this opportunity?
 * Pair: partner up, discuss, record and post below
 * Share: with whole team
 * iCoach: “//action research//”
 * Our Twitter & Diigo

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 * [[file:F&D.doc]]
 * Reflections on SBISD //Findings & Direction//s
 * Ridgecrest

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 * EA Campus Goals**: Learning Out Loud
 * EA Students: Digital Learning Portfolios (archiving process)
 * **R3**: Read-Reflect-Revise [[file:Digital Portfolios Guidelines for beginners Feb draft.pdf]]
 * Resources:
 * @http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/08/15/moving-to-digital-student-portfolios/
 * @http://billcarozza.com/category/digital-portfolios/
 * @http://www.scoop.it/t/electronic-portfolio
 * @http://www.amle.org/Publications/WebExclusive/Portfolio/tabid/650/Default.aspx
 * iTunes
 * Questioning Prompts: http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Ideas+and+Question+prompts
 * Primary Reflection Forms: @https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sjmoUM7GAONq-4BHGeFm8XTC0zyDKMZA05ZuYWLBBzc/
 * Template: https://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Thinkering+Studio+-+Portfolio
 * Effort & Achievement Rubric (adapted from Marzano)
 * sample template: https://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Thinkering+Studio+-+Journal
 * Examples
 * VoiceThread Portfolios
 * Student Portfolio - []3rd and 4th grade portfolios show students' mastery of the tools and their mastery of the particular curriculum component.
 * Multi Year Portfolio - []
 * Student Goal Setting
 * Student-Led Conferences
 * Relatives Network
 * Classroom Meetings
 * Classroom Meetings