Breakout 1

• Within each topic, identify challenges that you see within your own school or district
• Be specific
• For each topic, determine your vision for the future and what you would like to see at your own school or district
• As a group, choose 1 challenge to move forward with & collectively set the direction for a future vision

• Not having dedicated time to connect as a full faculty / staff
• Parents do not come onto campus anymore – all meetings are virtual

• Spotty wifi connections
• 1:1 only for high school students

• More students require support than we have time / resources for
• Limited training on personalized learning

• All teachers have regular training on how tools can support student learning

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Challenges & Future Vision

Student Engagement

More students require support than we have time / resources for

• All teachers have regular training on how tools can support student learning
• All students feel appropriately supported & challenged during the schooling career
• Students can bring in their personal passions into their learning to lead to greater engagement

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Focus:

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Challenge:

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What vision for the future do you have for this focus?

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• Professional Development is choice-based [no face-to-face time]
• Lunch time = isolated in classrooms / working with students instead of meeting with colleagues
• Workload increase

• Spotty wifi
• Access to devices

• Students don’t learn the way they used to (short attention span)
• Students not collaborating (SEL)
• How to School (how to sit, pay attn, etc)
• Teachers managing classes

• Organizing parent orientation / meeting parents more frequently
• Opportunities for staff cxn (staff meetings, pot lucks)
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• Free internet access / access points
• Wifi hotspot access
• Funds for devices (quality)

• After teachers are out of survival mode, help them learn new engagement strategies
• Meet teachers where they are
• Students taught collaboration strategies
• Class for SEL

Challenges & Future Vision

Building Community

Teachers are isolated (finding ways for teachers to interact without it increasing their workload)

• Creating opportunities for staff connection
• Discussions during department meetings (casual conversations about best practices)
• Adding informal meet-ups (lunch time / after school)
• Grade-level team time [finding time to meet that doesn’t add to the day]
• Team bonding time
• Modeling collaboration during staff meetings

Focus:

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Challenge:

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What vision for the future do you have for this focus?

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• Listen to each question
• Generate as many ideas for a training session using the question as inspiration
• Consider the tools that can be leveraged, both as a focus for the training and as supplementary resources
• You will have 1 minute per box – we will stay on the same box together

Inspiration Generation

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Kelli

Ritika

Wilian

Jamboard

Jamboard

Jamboard

Jamboard

• Write your name in one of the spaces below.
• Click on your assigned Jamboard to open up your individual Inspiration Generation template.

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• You will have 1 minute to pitch your idea to your colleagues
• Ensure your pitch includes the what & the how
• What activities will you bring forward??
• How do these ideas amplify technology for in person learning?

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Pitch

• With each pitch, ensure one person captures your team’s thinking on your collaborative slide
• Consider:
• Starting with the present
• Honoring the past
• Looking ahead to the future

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Have teachers engage in a tuning protocol using a lesson they have previously designed

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The lesson will be annotated using Google Keep & Jamboard to capture the dialogue that is happening in person. Participants will see the value in technology in capturing key thinking so that they can see their growth over time.

Educators will feel greater confidence in their ability to support & engage students, which will lead to better overall engagement

Instructional videos will be posted on Google Site to help make connections between how the tools can support engagement

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Aaron

Videos will highlight key features of the tools and will be levelled based on need & readiness

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Training Pitch

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Name:

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What ideas do you wish to move forward with?

How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?

How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?

How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?

• Create an instructional playbook of community-building strategies generated by teachers that are modeled at staff meetings and then used within the classroom

• Technology used to promote community
• Technology to crowdsource ideas

• Modeling community
• Teachers learning to interact and share ideas → Students learning and sharing ideas

• Every teacher will have the ability to share their unique ideas during staff meetings and then select the strategies of their choice to implement in their classrooms

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Training Pitch

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Name:

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What ideas do you wish to move forward with?

How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?

How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?

How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?

• Create a collaborative activity for teachers to have an opportunity to interact with others.

• Teacher can use the SEL activities in their classroom to build a classroom community while also building a community with their peers.

• Teachers aren’t isolated anymore
• Not adding to a teachers workload, but giving an opportunity to be creative while learning at the same time.
• Modeling how to build a community.

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Kelli

Training Pitch

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Name:

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What ideas do you wish to move forward with?

How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?

How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?

How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?

Create a plan for teachers so that they get to develop professionally without increasing their workload

They get a chance to interact with each other and share their best practices

Quality PD sessions can be given with proper plan

Subject-specific meetings (weekly/bi-monthly) will help to narrow down their needs and share their problems with the teammates.

Ritika

Training Pitch

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Name:

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What ideas do you wish to move forward with?

How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?

How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?

How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?

In person event for “energizer” the teachers and have the training

Share good practices, receive feedback and improve their classes using slides, jamboard and docs.

Create some spark sessions to engage and courage the teachers to keep using technology

They will have the opportunity to choose what area/sessions they want to join, and create a Google Site to list all the sessions

Wilian

Training Pitch

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Name:

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What ideas do you wish to move forward with?

How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?

How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?

How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?

• Listen to each group member’s pitch – each pitch will be 1 minute in length
• After each pitch, determine as a group which ideas are pertinent to move forward
• Consider:
• The ‘musts’
• The Google Tool specific skills you are developing
• Ways to extend or scaffold the training

Breakout 2

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Pulling it Together – use this Google Form to develop your Training