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As a site academic specialist, my role includes providing professional development for my site. I present information to teachers during PLC's, staff meetings, and to our site leadership. I also present our school goals & data to parents during site council meetings and ELAC meetings. Our school and leadership determines our schools goals, all of our professional learning is based around these goals. With the help of other district academic specialist and administration, we come up with professional learning that will help our staff meet our school and district goals to better prepare our students for the future.
For this project and for my role as an academic specialist, my audience will be my staff of teachers. I am hoping that I will be able to use my capstone project in the professional learning for next year. As a school site, we have already been looking at academic language and how to improve and increase it. This capstone project will allow me to build on our school goals and create powerful professional learning for my school. My initial ideas are to continue to work with academic language and increasing student talk. I would like to expand the focus to include all subject areas, not just reading. How does increasing academic language effect student learning in all subject areas? I am thinking that I might plan some professional learning in Edivate. Edivate is a professional learning platform that the NVUSD uses to store sample lessons, training videos etc.. I am wondering if I could build units in Ediviate with multiple lessons about increasing academic language. These units could be presented during whole staff professional learning, during grade level PLC time or teachers could watch them on their own. It would provide choice for the teachers and lessons could be broken into small pieces or view independently to free up our precious staff time. The lessons built in Edivate could be customized for varying degrees of novices. The lessons could focus on different strategies and teachers could choose a strategy that would most fit their teaching style. I have no firm plan yet....just a lot of ideas. The readings for this week give me a good ideas about the structure and considerations that I need to think about before planning these lessons. What are the needs of my teachers? How do they learn the best? I think I need to start with narrowing down my driving question. After that, find out if Edivate will work for the purpose of this capstone project. Agggg...lots to do.
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Diane
2/19/2017 02:51:17 pm
I really found your blog post very interesting. It's so wonderful to have that extra support. I think your teachers that you help are very lucky to have you. I really liked your idea about putting lessons plans on edivate. I think it would be so helpful for teachers and they can get together in their grade level teams and agree on some strategies sharing what they think might work.
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Karly Miller
2/20/2017 10:49:43 am
Hi Becky
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Jennifer Wade
2/20/2017 10:56:05 am
I must commend you on this ambitious endeavor, I think you are up for the task and that it would serve NVUSD's teacher/student community greatly. The initial undertaking is daunting, but just think, it will be there forever. I often do this kind of assessment in my classroom, if it is a lot of work for one lesson, then no way, but if the work I put in can be used for years, then I am willing to spend a lot of time. We do need to think more about where each teacher is in their experience and tech skills and I think your idea here does just that. The idea that the academic language can benefit all curriculum areas is key to integrating lessons and developing lessons that fit the TPAK model. Also, if students are going to be reading and writing as they speak, then it seems to make sense that we need to improve their speaking.
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Todd
2/20/2017 11:02:51 am
Hi Becky,
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