Monday, July 20, 2020

Day 1 - Welcome!

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Please mute yourself. Also, in the top right hand corner of your video display, click the three small dots, then click rename and add your pronouns there.

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Agenda: Monday, July 20

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Review of Agenda

9:10 - 9:15 Writing into the Day: 2020 So Far

9:15 - 9:35 Introductions and Sharing in Virtual Circle

9:35 - 10:05 Focus Question and “We Can Educate All Our Children”

10:05 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:55 Working Within, Beyond, and Against the System

10:55 - 11:25 Home Group Discussion

11:25 Reaction Sheets, Journal Groups, and Review Overview

Prepare Readings for Tomorrow

Follow Up on TPS Teachers Network Posts

Links for Today

9:00 Parking Lot, SIGs, and Shared Resources Document

9:35 Clayton (1989)

Shared Writing Document

10:05 Contact List Spreadsheet

10:15 Lytle et al. (2009) and Smith (2020)

11:00 Shared Writing Document

11:20 Reaction Sheet

TPS Teachers Network Posts

Welcome! Pull up a chair around our circle

(grab a “chair”; click to edit your name, then drag and drop to sit next to someone)

Trey

Erica

Maddie

Alondra

Tricia

Beth

Jen

Sara

Reed

Rolyn

Ismael

Template by Training for Change

June

Dina

When we go around the circle, please share:

• Your name
• Your pronouns
• Where you teach
• Grades/subject you teach
• 1 sentence from what you wrote

Lisa

Serial Testimony Protocol

• Do not interrupt with comments, questions, or physical signs.
• Concentrate on what others are saying before your own turn comes and immediately after your turn, tune back in, rather than wondering “how did I do?”
• In speaking, stay with your experiences and feelings and reflections.
• During your turn, try not to refer to what others have said before you. Focus on contributing your own thoughts and feelings.
• Keep your comments within the one minute time allowance.

Home Groups

• Group A — Alondra, Geena, Maddie
• Group B — June, Lisa, Sara
• Group C — Beth, Rolyn, Tricia
• Group D — Erica, Ismael, Jen

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Contact Information Spreadsheet

Use a word to describe how you are feeling during day 1.

compelled

Curious.

thoughtful

Inspired

Reconnected

Refreshed

Brain-full

Community

Hybrid

Heavy

engaged

inspired

Contemplative

Bursting

Afternoon Activities

1. Complete Reaction Sheet
2. Meet with Journal Group (introductions today)
3. Review Advanced Institute Overview Slides (9-20)
4. Prepare Readings for Tomorrow
1. Everett (2018)
2. Garcia & Dutro (2018)
3. Kendi (2016)
4. Rivera-Amezola (2020)
5. Follow Up on TPS Teachers Network Posts

Journal Groups

Group 1 — Alondra, Erica, Lisa, Tricia

Group 2 — Beth, Geena, Sara, Jen

Group 3 — Ismael, Maddie, Rolyn, June

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Contact Information Spreadsheet

Social Practices

ISI includes writing/writing groups/use of writing; after the ISI TCs use writing as a practice in order to do many things, including reflecting and inquiring.

During and after ISI we might make our practice public in articles, workshops, cross-visiting, observational rounds, demo teaching, publishing curriculum.

ISI has reading groups and visiting speakers to engage with literature/research and questions about aspects of your practice; after the ISI TCs engage in reading research and contributing to it through their own publication, participate in professional activities like developing standards, etc.

ISI requires teachers to be engaged and reflective participants so that the role of responder in a writing group is as important as the presenter; after the ISI involves continued use of learning protocols, “oral inquiry processes” as Lytle and Cochran-Smith describe, or the participatory structure of events where everyone is a participant, or teacher research.

Taking role of facilitator/leader in ISI activities as a kind of ‘requirement’ of successful participation; planning and leading work under the PhilWP banner after ISI.

Helping new TCs advocate for policies and practices at school, district, state, and national levels; working toward equity, including taking action with and on behalf of marginalized students, families, communities, and/or professionals; hosting a legislator in your classroom, advocating at spring meeting, writing to advocate for the profession.

Ideating/Discovery: Roses, Thorns, and Buds

Rose

• “I feel like I’m already doing some of this…”
• “I feel comfortable doing this…”

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Thorn

• “This feels challenging to me…”
• “I have concerns about how to do this…

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Bud

• “I see a lot of potential for my own growth here...:”

Overview of Advanced Institute

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ORIENTATION

June 6

INSTITUTE WEEK

July 20 - 24

READ / WATCH / LISTEN

Readings, podcasts, and videos

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WRITE / SHARE

Brief reflections and responses on TPS Teachers Network

WRITE / WATCH / READ / DISCUSS / CREATE / PLAN / COLLABORATE / CURATE

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Prepare to:

• Engage in school and classroom inquiries that can be shared with colleagues, including through publications and conference presentations
• Designing and facilitating professional development with/for other teachers and leading school-wide change
• Advocating for our students, schools, communities, and profession

Overview of Advanced Institute

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ORIENTATION

June 6

INSTITUTE WEEK

July 20 - 24

CELEBRATION OF WRITING AND LITERACY

October

CHECK-IN 1

November

CHECK-IN 2

December

CHECK-IN 3

January

CHECK-IN 4

February

CHECK-IN 4

March

CHECK-IN 6

April

Everything You Need in One Place...

tinyurl.com/philwp2020ai

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• Go to Daily Agendas > Orientation

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• Find today’s agenda and links to (1) focus questions, (2) readings, (2) shared documents, (3) resources

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Readings During Summer

Readings During Fall and Spring

• Grouped with focus question
• Primarily found in physical bulk pack, delivered to your home in about 2 weeks
• Also available digitally through our shared site

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• Selected by Monthly Paired Facilitators (You!)

Course Registration

• Tuition is free ($970 paid by TPS grant)

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• $50 fee for materials paid via “Donate” button on PhilWP website

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• To register for the course, complete form on our ISI site
• Asks for SSN and PA Professional ID (PPID)
• May call Miriam to share SSN by phone

Billing

1. Once Miriam registers you for this course, Penn will generate a bill.
• If you’re new to Penn, you’ll also receive a PennKey.

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• Bill will be mailed to your home address (late July or early August).

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• Grant funds covering tuition will later be applied to your account.

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* Be mindful: Billing and application of grant funds are not simultaneous; therefore, you may see a balance one month. That balance should disappear with the next month.

Course Credit

• 1 continuing education course unit (CEU) from PennGSE equivalent to 3 continuing education credits
• You will receive a grade of “Pass” after completing all requirements, which includes participating in all sessions and submitting a final portfolio by the due date.
• You will receive an “Incomplete” if all requirements are not fulfilled by due dates.
• If all work is not completed, the “Incomplete” may be permanent.

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• 30 ACT 48 credits

New This Year: All Online!

• Hoping to use affordances of Zoom each morning to be present with one another and collaborate
• Lunch and afternoons will largely be asynchronous, although you will find times for Journal Groups, Reading Groups, and SIGs to convene

Morning Meeting

Journal Group

Reading Group

SIG

9am

noon

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