Olga+Miles

MY POSTCARD DESTINATION

**Name**:Olga Miles

**Role**: My ideal job description :) !!! media type="file" key="I-Coach JB Movie MH.wmv" width="300" height="300" align="center"


 * Campus ** : ** Westwood **
 * Focus Question **:** How can we merge all the collective talents in our school in ways that we all feel supported, engaged, inspired and energized? **


 * How can I apply the benefits of Powerful Learning Practice (PLP) community in our school? **

The beauty of teamwork

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**Resources**: //s// // earch for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) that will help you address your sub questions - please be sure to tag (PL + EA) and add them to our [|Diigo] //
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 * Leading Learning **

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 * PL Activity 1:
 * 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/or 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?
 * ===== PL Activity 2: =====
 * 1) Individually, design a teacher resource, activity, or mini-challenge to test-drive in the next month.
 * 2) Post to our Professional Learning activity
 * 3) Gather feedback from team - adjust, modify, tweak
 * 4) Try out resource, activity, or mini-challenge during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collecting artifacts from teachers engagement.
 * PL Activity 3:
 * "First 5 Weeks" - Using CSI thinking routine, paint a clear picture of your reality
 * Born to Run
 * How did your actions, language and priorities support your vision/mission as an Early Adopter iCoach (aka your destination postcard)?
 * I have been trying to include the most possible number of teachers in Staff Development, to the point that my principal told me...Stop, spending all my money!!! but, it is important to me to keep the teachers inspired and exited in times of stress and have reminders of why we joined this profession. **
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * By spreading in too many directions, I feel like I don't have the time to have reflecting time with teachers. **
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * Complete one ICLE cycle with the new teachers, with the idea to meet them where they are and create individual plan of action. **
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * Qualitative measure, based on a "thermometers check" **
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your own "optimism and hope alive"?
 * I try to remember what I learned last month in a training " People don't do things against you, they are normally doing things for themselves!" Pete Hinojosa. **


 * I recharge my batteries at home and I stay true to point #2 in the article, I try to surround myself with positive people. (whenever I can as much as I can) **

PL Activity 4:
 * **Reflecting Forward, January 2014**
 * 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)?
 * I feel that I have been pulled in some other directions not having being able to support teachers in my school as an Early Adopter iCoach
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * My principal is piloting a coaching model with ILT called O3. My goal is to have at least one conference time with each of the three teachers that I will working with.
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * For one part by making myself available for teachers and for the follow up and hopefully observations that we'll be doing.
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your own "optimism and hope alive"?
 * How is that goal evident in your every day actions, language and priorities?
 * What have you been able to achieve, given your efforts?
 * What specific strategies have you used to keep your own "optimism and hope" alive (Developing A Positive Mindset)?
 * In what areas would you find additional support helpful?
 * How will you continue to "seek the small wins" and "illuminate the bright spots"?
 * In what areas would you find additional support helpful?
 * How will you continue to "seek the small wins" and "illuminate the bright spots"?