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Creating A Culture of Collaboration Sarah Garr B.A. B.Ed. M.A.
Email [email protected] Twitter @garr_s SFU Summer Institute 2014 #sfusi2014 #sd36learn
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Mom
Educator
Learning Partners
Department Leader
Unwitting Innovator
“Risk Taker”
My Story
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Teacher Isolation
Agenda
MakingGlobal
& Local Connection
s
Taking Risks&
Innovation
Student Learning
& Achievement
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“Schools and systems that foster highly collaborative practices and purposely build social capital are places where new pedagogies thrive. In particular; teacher isolation is the enemy here.”
-A Rich Seam: How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy 2014
Teacher Isolation
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Do we have a responsibility as educators to connect and
collaborate with our colleagues?
Teacher Isolation
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Teacher Isolation
DetachmentDissatisfaction
Stagnation
Teacher Isolation
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Establishing Global and Local Connections:Digital and Face to Face
Global & Local Connections
It’s about relationships.
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Global Connections
--Dr. Alec Couros
There are numerous “tools that mediate connections…The people behind those tools are the most important.”
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“We often complain about the isolation that is evident in education, but it is no longer a foregone conclusion. Isolation is now a choice educators make.” -- George Couros
http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4156
Global Connections
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Twitter: Professional Learning Network
#sd36learn #cpchat #bced #aussied
Global Connections
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Self-Reflection & Sharing: Making Learning VisibleThe good, the bad, and the ugly.
http://www.teachergarr.blogspot.ca/2013_09_01_archive.html
Global Connections
“There’s a natural transparency that emerges.”
How To Make Better Teachers --Dean Shareski
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Global Connections
Global Audience via Twitter- But still about relationships.
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Twitter: School Community & Culture#1000awesomethingsaboutsulli #sullirocks #sullilearns
Local Connections
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Local Connections
Time is a valuable commodity.
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Sullivan HeightsLearning Partners Program
http://sullilearningpartners.blogspot.ca
Local Connections
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Local Connections
Learning Partners Program:
Decreases teacher isolation by providing opportunities to connect with colleagues.
Provides release time to teachers to facilitate inter-departmental collaboration.
Facilitates and supports reciprocal, non-hierarchical peer-mentoring partnerships (both beginner and experienced teachers).
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Local Connections
Teacher Drop in Day allows teachers the rare opportunity to visit colleagues’ classrooms as a method to discover and share teaching resources and strategies. #OpenDoors
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Local Connections
Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
http://youtu.be/9bxZ3HK3iiU
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The Importance of Disrupting Routines
Taking Risks & Innovation
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Digitization of Binders Open Source, Open Access
Binder Digital
Taking Risks & Innovation
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iTunes U: What is it?http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/itunes-u/
Taking Risks & Innovation
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Surrey School District #36iTunes U Course Development Project
Taking Risks & Innovation
Yup, definitely out of my comfort zone.
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iTunes U Course Manager: Course Creation
https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/coursemanager/
Taking Risks & Innovation
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Curating Content
Choosing content: Reflection & Selection
Copyright considerations: Creative Commons
Selecting Assets: Apps, iMovie, iBooks, documents
Taking Risks & Innovation
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iTunes U English 8 Course
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/course/english-8/id733901584
Taking Risks & Innovation
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Student Learning & Achievement
“The powerful collaboration that characterizes professional learning communities is a systemic process in which teachers work together to analyze and improve their classroom practice…[which] in turn, leads to higher levels of student achievement”.
–Richard DuFour, Schools As Learning Communities
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Student Learning & Achievement
Supporting Teacher
Collaboration
Supports Integration of
Innovative Instructional
and Assessment
Practices
Supports Student
Learning & Achievement
Supported Teachers = Supported Students
Makes sense to me.
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Questions & Feedback
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Picture CreditsSlide 1 Ripples: http://opsafeintl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79c29.jpgSlide 5 Open Door:http://healthewound.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/closed-door.jpgSlide 7 Connections:http://www.activeendurance.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Connection.jpgSlide 13 Alarm Clock: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b2010-07-20_Black_windup_alarm_clock_face.jpgSlide 19 Clock:http://img.ksl.com/slc/2498/249813/24981301.jpgSlide 28 Question mark:http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/agents/kutchuk/files/Man-With-Question-05.png
