Megan+FWE



**Name**:Megan Hogg

Faces of Me:



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 * Campus ** :Frostwood Elementary


 * Focus Question **: How can I collaborate on a global level in order to assist my teachers learning, when they often don't have time to spend on global collaboration with their peers and authorities in the field?

1) How do I find the best minds in education to learn from? 2) How do I interact and learn from a variety of sources within the timeframe I have available? 3) How can I make sure that I am sharing things that are relevant to my teachers? 4) What is the best way to share the information learned with my teachers?

**Resources**: //twitter: Pam Moran, November Learning, Roger Schwank, Action Research// Ambiguity Becoming Clear
 * CSI - Session 2 - Summarize first few weeks**


 * Leading Learning **


 * PL Activity 1:
 * How will you communicate the efforts of your teachers (EA and other)? ( // illuminating the bright spots // - blog, wiki, Twitter, etc.)
 * I am using my google site to illuminate a classroom or grade level of kids each week so that others in our school can see what is going on. I need to find a way to illuminate them on a more global scale.
 * How will you encourage, manage and support sign-ups for in-class support and/or planning time (iCal, Google Calendar, etc.)
 * I have my google calendar attached to my google site to which teachers get a weekly update e-mail on how to access and what has changed. This lets them know when I am available so that they can sign up to work with me.
 * How will you maintain consistent and transparent communication with your building administrators?
 * I communicate daily with the administration about what is going on in my position and on the campus. We work collaboratively in order to achieve our goals for the teachers and our campus.
 * How will you leverage your communication tools to bridge the efforts of EA teachers with those of non-EA teachers?
 * I can make the things the EA teachers some of the bright spots on my google site. The EA teachers have also done a great job of sharing with others what they are doing so that others can come in and watch them during teacher peer observations.
 * ===== 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
 * How did your actions, language and priorities support your vision/mission as an Early Adopter iCoach (aka your destination postcard)?
 * I have learned more about the initiatives and data and how they all go together. I have spend time in teacher's classrooms getting to know them and their students. I have worked with them to support campus and district initiatives. I have begun to develop relationships where they feel they can come to me for support.
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * ====I have had to work ahead of my knowledge base in some areas which may have hindered clarity of ideas. I sometimes realize that there are certain teachers I have not worked with in many days, which is detrimental to building the relationships I am trying to create. The teachers often don't know where I am (in classrooms or off-campus) so they cannot come to me in person for help. ====
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * Develop a schedule in order to support early adopter teachers and get in their classrooms to assist with their early adopter initiative.
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * Whether or not I am with each of those teachers in their classrooms during that timeframe.
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your own "optimism and hope" alive?
 * Focus on the positive. Find the small moments. Remember the successes of those around me (the teachers).
 * 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 am working on synthesizing information from different sources (CCP, TEKS and quadsheet) into a singular source for the teachers to access, modify and use. This supports my destination postcard of incorporating different initiatives. I am also finding experts in the field of education through twitter and blogs which supports my personal learning journey, of learning from experts in order to be better able to assist and share insights with the teachers on my campus.
 * In what ways did they dilute your efforts?
 * I am scattered in a bunch of different activities and often don't have the time to focus on the ones that I think are the most important. I am still learning other's expectations of my role and each time I discover something new I have to figure out how that piece will fit into the puzzle.
 * What goal will you set for yourself to act toward in the next four weeks?
 * I want to continue working towards this singular source of information for the teachers. I want to colloborate with the teachers and specialists in order to make it as useful as possible.
 * How will you measure your achievement?
 * I will still be in process on this goal so I don't know how to measure it in parts. I think it will be based on how much collaboration I have done and how far I have gotten in the process.
 * What specific strategies will you use to keep your own "optimism and hope alive"?
 * Lots of reading and research to have comfort in the fact that I am working in a good direction for the students. Also, checking in with those I trust in order to make sure I am making a workable product.
 * Reflect on the goal you set for yourself...
 * How is that goal evident in your every day actions, language and priorities?
 * I really feel like I talk about it multiple times each week with others on my campus, and I always have the work product with me (I carry it home and to school everyday to be able to work on it). I am collaborating with people on my campus and most of the teachers know what I am working on.
 * What have you been able to achieve, given your efforts?
 * I have finished vertically aligning the grade levels within CCP, the quadsheet and TEKS. This was a huge step because now I can work on the individual grade levels which is really my goal.
 * What specific strategies have you used to keep your own "optimism and hope" alive (Developing A Positive Mindset)?
 * I always focus on making sure what I am doing is something that the teachers want and support. This keeps my "optimism and hope alive" because I know I am being successful at my job if I am supporting them.
 * In what areas would you find additional support helpful?
 * This is really a big task and I need to make sure that I am including others in the process. Their voices can help make a far better product than I could make on my own. It will also take some of the pressure off.
 * How will you continue to "seek the small wins" and "illuminate the bright spots"?
 * By not letting it get stagnant and working with others so it does not become an overwhelming project. Also, by checking in with the teachers collectively to see what they want it to look like so it will be useful to them.


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** Mining the Effort **

 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting?
 * I have started a blog to track my learning. I have been using Diigo to keep some of the important articles and websites that have information I need for my personal learning. I have also been reading books and applying them to my practice in order to enhance my practice.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice?
 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting?
 * I have been checking in with the teachers to see what they are working on and observing in their classrooms. I am also following Karen's class on Edmodo and I check in on Sally's blog to see what her students are doing.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice?
 * They are all working hard in order to involve more global communication and student owned learning. The strides they have made this year in helping the students become owner's of the classroom and able to communicate in a meaningful way will make an impact on the rest of their lives.


 * An Opportunity in Overalls **

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher? The act of using a wiki (an a blog) makes the process kind of like a storyteller because we are documenting our process. We are in the act of telling the story of our learning journey. I also have done (and continue to do) a lot of research. There are great minds in education that we should listen to if we want to better our practice. I am trying very hard to better my practice so I am doing action research where I research about my practice and then apply it to see how it works for my community.

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?

How can I collaborate on a global level in order to assist my teachers learning, when they often don't have time to spend on global collaboration with their peers and authorities in the field?
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question?
 * I am also working on researching how to incorporate innovation into learning in the classroom through researching from the best minds on the topic.
 * What question(s) remain?
 * Many. I still have a lot of work to do to get where I want to be. I want to apply what I have learned but I am still in the learning part of the process.
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far?
 * How to get the information to the teachers. How to help the teachers implement the information. How to get the teachers interested in the information. How to make more innovative classrooms within the system we have.

As a researcher:
 * What are you measuring?
 * What patterns are surfacing?
 * What themes are emerging?
 * What does your data suggest?

As a learner:
 * Where have you allowed yourself to be vulnerable in this process?
 * I have tweeted, and I have started a blog. I have also begun posting responses in places. These were very difficult for me and I felt like I was putting myself out there, so I felt very vulnerable.
 * How are you allowing yourself, your professional learning to be 'seen'?
 * I have tweeted, and I have started a blog. I have also begun posting responses in places. The teachers also know a lot of the research I am doing and see me constantly trying to grow in my practice.
 * In what way(s) have you found the courage to be 'imperfect'?
 * I am putting my thoughts and ideas out there. They are incomplete and there is a lot of room to grow, but I do not have to grow alone. Being publicly imperfect allows shared growth.
 * 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//)