Houser,+Early+Adopter

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
Destination Postcard:



Name: Amy Houser
 * Campus: Stratford High School
 * Grade Level(s): 9-12
 * Discipline: iCoach
 * Topic: Work with the early adopter teachers to help them achieve their goals.
 * Focus Question: How will my role as a campus iCoach help the teachers in 4 different disciplines to achieve their goals?
 * How often and when will I meet with teachers to plan, reflect, celebrate, and tweak their goals for students?
 * Will I work more in the planning process, or actually be in the classroom with the teachers?
 * How will my time off campus effect the teachers that I'm working with?
 * What are some good "go-to" web sources for me to utilize to help teachers?
 * Search for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - post below and be sure to add them to your campus Diigo
 * Jigsaw notetaking and sharing of resources
 * Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or project to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.


 * An Opportunity in Overalls**

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question? I am still struggling with the time off campus issue. Luckily there is still an iCoach on campus, who I can collaborate with to help the teachers be successful.
 * What question(s) remain? I feel that there is still so much information that I do not know. Where are some good places for me to research information for he teachers?
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far? I want to have teachers present and begin creating staff development opportunities for their peers, but I think that this will add too much to their plate, especially while they are still in the learning process themselves.

As a researcher:

What are you measuring? teacher attitudes in this new teaching process in their classroom
 * What patterns are surfacing? throughout this process there are highs and lows, as with anything that is new. However, when things are going well, there is a definite glow around them.
 * What themes are emerging? The teachers throughout this process ask for more help at the beginning, and wean off of help as their confidence soars.
 * What does your data suggest? The teachers are achieving success in their classrooms, but I now need to help them extend their ideas.

As a learner:
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process?
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * What //a-ha!// moments, elements of a 'spiritual awakening'/"breakdown" have you experienced? What might these insights suggested to you?

What story is unfolding from your research?
 * (//just bullet point notes for now//)


 * Resources: Elluminate, eCourse in Workshop, videos (create your own and add to your online course)
 * Activity: