Group+3

Holding the learning... building a plan

First! Name your page
 * Go to the edit bar in the right hand corner and click on the ... (which provides you with more options)
 * Click on rename and use your school or organization's name to label your site. Feel free to work as a team if you are from the same school, or to open and name your own. Choose the option that best supports your learning.

Using Graded School as a trigger, what characteristics define your "case study"?

**Consider: ** > YOUR THINKING...
 * Environment:  What makes your "place" unique?
 * =====The size of our school and compartmentalization. 3 grade levels in the primary, but 13 classes in each, operating almost like separate schools. =====
 * =====State of change for technology, platform and use of gmail etc. =====
 * Student body:  Who are the students? What are the expectations for learning? For engagement? How consistent are those expectations?
 * International student body, predominantly American. High expectations from parents regarding achievement levels.
 * Initiatives:  What are the explicit and implicit learning demands your organization has placed on teachers?
 * Specific programs in literacy and math that need to be adhered to. Reading and writing workshops in particular. Modern languages will be changing the schedules significantly.
 * Personalization: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;"> What do teachers want?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Fewer new initiatives. Teachers often say, "Not another...."
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">More flexibility in the delivery of their program.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Learning Environment: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What implicit and explicit structures exist for learning? How do people learn in your organization? What other characteristics may be significant? Why may it help to inform refining your plan?
 * Individual PD funds and plans.
 * Office of learning guidance for whole school PD
 * TPR process guiding PD for people to be involved in.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Other?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">WHAT STANDS OUT FROM YOUR "3 LEVELS OF TEXT" DIALOGUE?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Moving on to the next step

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Based on your reflections, what is the next step you can take to support deepening the professional learning culture of your school/organization?

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Build out your theory of action: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Proposed Strategy: If I do this...

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Then x will happen...

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">And I will see...