DEVELOPING A DISTRICT INCUBATOR FOR ONLINE PD - METC 2014

“DEVELOPING A
DISTRICT INCUBATOR
FOR ONLINE PD”
METC, February 11, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 14

hello
@nashworld
nashworld.me
nashworld@gmail.com

3 questions

WHAT IS ONE?
1
1

WHAT GOOD
IS IT?
2
2

HOW DO I MAKE
THIS HAPPEN?
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3

ORIGINS

stjoeh2o.ning.com

highlighted
here:
This network

“Connections on
social networking
sites can provide
students with
experiences and
knowledge they
would otherwise
lack.”
from pages #152-153

“Students ask
and answer
questions, share
photos or videos...
and in doing so,
they’ve created a
real sense of
community.”
from pages #142-143

saintjosephschools.ning.com

Groups: permanent & ad hoc

21,382 unique visitors from 2009-2011

“For a great
example of a
school change
Ning site, check
out the ‘St. Joseph
Digital Express’...”from page #95

THE PRESENT

N K C S C H O O L S
NKCS Professional Learning Incubator
1
Professional Learning
Incubator
A Culture of
Collaboration
Providing opportunities to “soften” the walls of our
classrooms as we continue to grow into the 21st Century
The North Kansas City School District is vast with
respect to both geographical area and total number
of faculty. In order to turn challenges into assets,
some form of collaborative sandbox for instructional
alignment & innovation is needed. The Ning
platform is rich with opportunity for the sort of
local customization we need to assist staff in
building relationships with colleagues and coming
together around instructional issues and challenges.
These actions directly impact professional growth,
and ultimately, student performance and
empowerment.
Removing Barriers
Teaching today is an increasingly sophisticated
endeavor. More and more is expected from our staff
as we seek to provide the best for our children. The
ceiling we increasingly push against is time. The
simple fact remains that our days will never number
in excess of 24 hours. In light of this, we must seek
to maximize our time in planning, highlighting and
sharing our bright spots and next practices.
Leaders at all levels know we can never afford to
schedule enough face to face time for professional
learning. The logistics aren’t there, and funds are
limited. Given this fact, we are led toward making
the most effective use of the time we have. The
question becomes... how do we give teachers more
feedback from peers, Administrators, Instructional
Coordinators, Teaching & Learning Coaches, SALTs,
etc.? How do we do this in a way that honors the
time of all of the professionals involved, and yet do
so in a way that credits the ways in which we
increasingly interact in a digital world?
We feel that an online incubator for professional
learning will allow us to better connect research to
planning and planning to practice. Ultimately, this
culture of collaboration will help to spread the best
of our work beyond the walls of our individual
classrooms and in a way that allows us to interact
when and where we work best.
Getting There
Startup for this is simple. The roadmap to
implementation is easily articulated. Soon we can
share practices, troubleshoot for alignment, coach
one another, document the powerful work of our
PLTs, and continue the engagement with our
consultants.
Together we can all become more effective in
meeting the needs of our children for today and into
the future.
A place where ideas and innovations find growth, development, and
instructional alignment.
Immersion in Digital
Culture
The social web is
currently a part of the
lives of all children...
and most adults. This
approach will
purposefully immerse
adult learners in
modern, online 2-way
tools explicitly shifted
toward learning.
Sharing Instructional
Practices
Shining light on bright
spots across our
organization. Providing
opportunities to
troubleshoot.
Making PLT Work
Transparent
Grade-level teams
across the district.
Content level teams.
Cross functional teams.
Multidisciplinary
approaches. Support for
Encore programs.
Empowering
collaboration &
accountability
Thursday to Thursday.
Extending Professional
Learning
Capturing the rich
work of and with our
paid consultants.
Extending these
relationships forward.
Curriculum
Collaboration
Helping our
curriculum come to life
and find alignment
with both solid
instructional practice
and common, targeted
assessment
districtwide.
Curriculum becomes a
living, breathing entity.
Opportunities to Coach
With teachers reflecting
throughout a common
network, our many
support teams gain
another venue for just-
in-time coaching.
A multifaceted approach to adult learning... ...that incubates and reinforces best practices
Face to face sharing is the best form of
synchronous collaboration. Yet,
asynchronous learning can easily
evolve beyond the physical constraints
of time and place.
bit.ly/nkcsdincubator

N K C S C H O O L S
Professional Learning
Incubator
the most effective use of the time we have. The
A place where ideas and innovations ﬁnd growth, development, and
instructional alignment.
Immersion in Digital
Culture
The social web is
currently a part of the
lives of all children...
and most adults. This
approach will
purposefully immerse
adult learners in
modern, online 2-way
tools explicitly shifted
toward learning.
Sharing Instructional
Practices
Shining light on bright
spots across our
organization. Providing
opportunities to
troubleshoot.
Making PLT Work
Transparent
Grade-level teams
across the district.
Content level teams.
Cross functional teams.
Multidisciplinary
approaches. Support for
Encore programs.
Empowering
collaboration &
accountability
Extending Professional
Learning
Capturing the rich
work of and with our
paid consultants.
Extending these
relationships forward.
Curriculum
Collaboration
Helping our
curriculum come to life
and ﬁnd alignment
with both solid
instructional practice
and common, targeted
assessment
districtwide.
Curriculum becomes a
living, breathing entity.
Opportunities to Coach
throughout a common
network, our many
support teams gain
another venue for just-
in-time coaching.
A multifaceted approach to adult learning... ...that incubates and reinforces best practices

The social web is currently a part
of the lives of all children... and
most adults. This approach will
purposefully immerse adult
learners in modern, online 2-way
tools explicitly shifted toward
learning.
1. Immersion in digital culture

“The more skilled a person is on a
dimension, like academia, art,
music, the more important they
consider that activity to be.”
-Pelham, 1991

NCTE’s 21st Century Literacies Framework:
Create, critique, analyze, and
evaluate multimedia texts
Design and share
information for global
communities to meet a
variety of purposes
Attend to the ethical
responsibilities required by
these complex
environments
Build relationships with
others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and
cross-culturally
Manage, analyze, and
synthesize multiple streams
of simultaneous information
Develop proﬁciency with
the tools of technology
~NCTE 21st Century Skills Framework

“Is it OK to be a
technologically
illiterate
teacher?”

Shining light on bright spots
across our organization.
Providing opportunities to
troubleshoot.
2. sharing instructional
practices

“Showing someone a picture of
a slow animal causes them to
walk more slowly. The
presentation of fast animals has
the opposite eﬀect.”
-Aarts and Dijksterhuis, 2000

Grade-level teams across the
district. Content level teams. Cross
functional teams. Multidisciplinary
approaches. Support for Encore
programs. Empowering
collaboration & accountability
3. making plt work transparent

“Connecting people to people.
Over and over again, that’s what
lasts online. Folks thought it was
about technology, and it’s not.”
-Seth Godin

Capturing the rich work of and
with our paid consultants.
Extending these relationships
forward.
4. extending professional
learning

Helping our curriculum come to
life and ﬁnd alignment with both
solid instructional practice and
common, targeted assessment
districtwide. Curriculum becomes
a living, breathing entity.
5. curriculum collaboration

“The value in media is no longer
in sources but in ﬂows; when we
pool our cognitive surplus, it
creates value that doesn’t exist
when we operate in isolation.”
-Clay Shirky

throughout a common network,
our many support teams gain
another venue for just-in-time
coaching.
6. OPPORTUNITIES TO COACH

Leaders promote and model
eﬀective communication and
collaboration among all
stakeholders using digital age
tools.
+ OPPORTUNITIES TO LEAD

CULTURE
OF
COLLABORATION

CULTURE TRUMPS
STRATEGY

REMOVING
BARRIERS

24 HOUR DAYS

FUNDING FOR
PD

LOGISTICS FOR
F2F

ASYNCHRONOUS
HONORS TIME

“The old, hardwired ‘plan & push’
mentality is rapidly giving way to
a new dynamic ‘engage &
cocreate’ economy.”
-Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams in Wikinomics

Getting members to read is easy;
getting them to participate is
hard.
PARTICIPATION

-Allison Leahy, Ning

BELIEF
VS.
ACTIONThursday, March 13, 14

THE CHANGE PROCESS
IN SCHOOLS
Is it this? Or is it this?
1.Professional development
2.Change in belief
3.Change in practice
4.Change in achievement
1.Professional development
2.Change in practice
3.Change in achievement
4.Change in belief
-ThomasGuskey

“It is easier to act your
way into a new way of
thinking than it is to
think your way into a
new way of acting.”
-Burchell & Robin, The Great Workplace

NING
PLATFORM
The details:

$588/year

To post:

To comment:

“What the web has done is it
has just kicked the ever-loving
crap out of the cost of
organizing people.”
-Cory Doctorow

LIVE TOUR

nkcsedu.ning.com

“The true value of a network is less
about information and more about
community. The information
superhighway is more than a
shortcut to every book in the
Library of Congress. It is creating a
new, global social fabric.”
-Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995

Thank you.

@nashworld
nashworld.me
nashworld@gmail.com

ARTWORK THANKS
“Tweaking Rock Junkie” by Caillum Smith on Flickr via CC
“Indoor Rock Climbing” by Steven Depolo on Flickr via CC
“A Soldier’s Still” by Lyle58 on Flickr via CC
“30 Days of Gratitude- Day 8” by ausiegall on Flickr via CC
“the pilot p-500 by Matthew C. Wright” on Flickr via CC
“867-5309” by Mike Blitzenhofer on Flickr via CC

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1 thing i knew
1 call to actionThursday, March 13, 14

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