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**Re-Imagining Professional Development ... Again?** As Graded School continues to refine its support to build an environment that leverages technology to enhance learning, we recognize that we expect teachers to re-imagine schooling as significantly different from their own educational experiences. As a result, we refined our Professional Learning Communities to immerse our teachers in the learning environment we hope to foster in our classrooms, providing an ongoing, experiential design of professional development.

This site serves as an anchor for our thinking in today's presentation. I invite you to engage in this case study focusing on a professional learning model in which teachers employed digital tools to serve their authentic learning needs based on a school-wide goal of assessment.

**Session Learning Targets **
 * I can compare/contrast the strengths and challenges of Graded's professional learning environment with my own.
 * I can consider key effective characteristics of a professional learning model that engages teachers in the environment we hope to foster in our classrooms.
 * I can develop a theory of action to refine professional development (classroom learning) at my school/organization.

**Crafting Our Learning Environment **

Building on our present thinking: Holding your thinking:   Keeping the conversation going:
 * Please go to Wall Wisher and add your __position__ and __what you would like to get__ from the session. Wall Wisher is NOT compatible with Ipads (Beta out soon!) so please reach out to our Ipad colleagues and post their session wishes for them.
 * This has been designed so you have your own page to hold and plan with your thinking now. You can navigate to your page (once assigned) using the sidebar to the right. As you move to one of the new pages, please rename to reflect your school or organization. Through this site you will have access to each other's reflections and plans.

Please feel free to continue to add to this space as your thinking and work grows. We also invite you to take the conversation to the global level at Graded's Innovate 2013, coming to Brazil in January 2013. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Before leaving, please take the time to provide feedback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">on today's workshop using the evaluation form or identify strengths and weakness of the workshop on twitter... (@Cbrodders) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">

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