In this webinar, Learning and Innovation Manager Gina Hartman is joined by three key members of the Ohio Blended Learning Collaborative to discuss their program, their keys to success, and what we can all learn about collaboration. Listen to the discussion here: License: Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND

1. A Blueprint for Effective Faculty
Collaboration in Education
A Discussion with the Ohio Blended Collaborative

2. Who We Are
Gina Hartman
Learning and
Innovation Manager
Schoology
@ghartman
Jennifer Fry
Technology Integration
Coordinator
Westerville City Schools
@JenFry1
Jessica Fields
Curriculum Supervisor-
Instructional Technology
Olentangy Local Schools
@JessFields_OLSD
Chris Deis
Chief Technology Officer
Grandview Heights Schools
@christopherdeis

3. Our Agenda
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1. About the Ohio Blended Collaborative
4. The Keys to Effective Collaboration They’ve Discovered
2. The Collaborative Structure They’ve Developed
3. Examples of Their Successes
5. Questions from the Audience

5. What’s the OBC All About?
The Gist
Three districts realized they shared common goals and teamed up to design,
build, and share complete blended learning courses.
This has increased the resources, educational quality, and production
capabilities of all districts involved.
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6. Why Did You Join the OBC?
Marysville Schools
● Going 1:1 and needed a variety of resources (paid, curated, created)
● Needed to prepare our teachers
● Dealing with the “New Platform Effect”
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7. Why Did You Join the OBC?
Westerville Schools
● Have 2:1 student/device ratio
● Serve 15,000 students
● Looking to enhance current curricula with teacher developed materials
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8. Why Did You Join the OBC?
Olentangy Schools
● Have a 3:1 student/device ratio
● 21,000 students = budget restraints for software/applications
● Promoting station rotation
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9. The OBC is Always Developing
● Support strategies are evolving
● Rubrics have been developed for teacher readiness
● Courses now have a full year for revision
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10. The Lifecycle of an OBC Course
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11. Examples of OBC Successes
The OBC Has
● Grown to 10 districts across Ohio
● Seen an increase in the use of the LMS for personalizing learning
● Provided PD for their most tech-savvy teachers
● Increase student engagement
● Developed 28 courses (examples to follow)
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12. 30 Courses Built to Date
5th Grade Social Studies
5th Grade Science
5th Grade ELA
6th Grade Social Studies
6th Grade Science
6th Grade Math
7th Grade Social Studies
7th Grade Science
8th Grade Pre-Algebra
8th Grade American History
8th Grade Science
8th Grade ELA
9th/10th American History
World History
American Government
Algebra I
Algebra II
Geometry
Biology
Chemistry
Physical Science
9th/10th/11th/12th CP English
Health
Art 1
Spanish
French

13. The Anatomy of an OBC Course

14. Learning the Keys to Collaboration

15. How Collaboration Benefits Education
More Resources More Brain Power More Production
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16. 4 Questions to Ask BEFORE Collaborating
● What is something you do individually that would be better done
collaboratively?
● How do you structure collaboration for success?
● What platforms do you use to collaborate?
● What is your most current need that could benefit from collaboration?
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17. What two ingredients do you consider the
most important in a healthy collaboration?
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18. The Ingredients of Successful Collaboration
Feeling Valued Selecting the Right
Leaders
Establishing
Expectations and a
Rubric
Time for Reflection,
Sharing, Discussion,
and Implementation
Ability to Take Risks
Flexibility
Personal and Group
Ownership
Effective Time
Management
Common Philosophy
and Shared Vision
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19. 6 Things the OBC is Looking Forward To
● Creating smaller blocks of professional development ”OBC Lite”
● Revise! Revise! Revise!
● Turning early participants into future leaders
● Creating PD courses with the same collaborative system
● Developing OBC meet-ups
● Sharing methods and practices outside of OBC
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20. Questions?
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21. Learn More About the OBC
Visit ohiobc.org to learn
more about the OBC

22. See You Next Time!
Visit Schoology.com to learn
more about our LMS
Learn about our PD services
at Schoology.com/pd
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