This document describes a Professional Learning Program (PLP) that aims to immerse educators in 21st century learning and teaching practices using both in-person and online tools. The PLP includes full-day workshops, online learning opportunities, mentoring, and learning communities to connect educators. An example workshop focused on exploring changes needed and hands-on experience with tools. Outcomes of one workshop showed a dramatic increase in educators exploring innovations through online discussion and sharing of examples using tools like blogs, wikis, and social media to enhance instruction.

1. Alternative
Professional
changing how we learn
to change how they learn

2. one example
smartphones
mini apps - wild, new forms of
expression

3. trouble with Pro Dev

4. trouble with Pro Dev
quick hits - few sustained measures
time to play
opportunity for follow up
lack of mentoring
on time and as needed

5. PLP
PLP is a professional
development model that
immerses educators into
environments and practices that
allow them to learn and own the
literacies of 21st Century
learning and teaching.

6. uses in person and online tools
connect with other learners
connect with mentors/ role MODELS
connect with learning communities

7. Powerful Learning Practice Delivery Model
Full Day Workshop
Pre-Workshop October 13th Post Workshop
Where we deepen
Online understanding,
Introduction to why
opportunities for change? network, share
interested staff to Discussion of resources and grow
use tools to Curricular Concerns as a community of
prepared for full Hands On Labs practice.
day workshop
Learning Teams
Teams who meet f2f and work
towards scale and alignment of
21st C skills with school
improvement goals with focus on
topics like assessment,
instructional practice,
communications
*slide stolen from PLP information presentation without permission

10. Outcomes and Results from October 13th Professional Development Day
! After the professional development day on Tuesday, October 13th there has been a
dramatic increase in faculty exploring how innovation/technology can improve instruction. We
have 91 faculty members who have joined the World's Best Faculty Ning and are participating in
discussions about instructional practice and innovations. While I believe it is important that we
are using new tools, the most important element is that faculty are being deliberate about
exploring ways to improve instruction to meet
21st century and global standards. The
increased interest has also caused us to
need greater bandwidth. We are currently
exploring options to resolve this concern.
Number of new users over the last year.
Tremendous spike immediately after
October 13th.
This charts shows the daily activity over
the last year. The
last 30 days show
more consistent
daily use.
Blog activity continues to
significantly increase. At
the beginning of October,
we were seeing 10 blog
updated daily, 37
post daily, and
12 comments
daily.

11. webinars
com mon craft
my personal learning
network
NCAIS COT
blogs

12. example sharing

13. Facebook
examples

14. Twitter key terms examples
"Byzantine Empire"
“Justinian rises in the east with Byzantium & uses revised
Roman laws. Christianity splits, Turks invade Anatolia, Crusades
sparked by Alexiusʼ letter. Turks take over.”
“Byzantine, east rome, Constantinople, Justinian and Theodora,
chariots, blues, greens, whites and reds, hippodrome, hagia
sophia, themes, nomisma, Justinianʼs code, Christianity,
crusades, caesaropapism, mosaics, Ottomans.”

15. Wordle "word cloud" examples

16. Other
interactive
projects

17. First Graders use Voice Thread
Voice Threads Project to introduce our Plymouth Unit.

18. First Grade Teacher Uses Wiki to
Communicate with Parents

19. Twitter with Students to Encourage
and Practice Writing Skills
Teacher
Student

20. AP Env. Science Exam Review Wiki

21. AP Env. Science Speaker via Skype

22. Podcasts
of
fieldtrips

23. Sample student blog - Midsummer Night Reflections

24. student writing in blogs organized in igoogle