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Bringing It Back Home

Bringing It Back Home. Mimi Baer, CAIS Executive Director Sandee Mirell, CAIS Director of Professional Development. Experienced Teachers Intellectual stimulation & challenge Autonomy & community Bonding & feedback from students Freedom to be creative & initiate change A sense of mission

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Bringing It Back Home

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  1. Bringing It Back Home Mimi Baer, CAIS Executive Director Sandee Mirell, CAIS Director of Professional Development

  2. Experienced Teachers Intellectual stimulation & challenge Autonomy & community Bonding & feedback from students Freedom to be creative & initiate change A sense of mission The renewal of outstanding teachers so vital to their continued enthusiasm & commitment is a spiritual issue. - Jackie S. Williams, Ed Leadership May 2003 Beginning Teachers Collaboration and teamwork Support from expert veterans Access to leadership roles - Project Next Generation Harvard University What Makes Us Stay?

  3. Veteran-Oriented High congeniality Low collegiality Little or no collaboration Integrated Collaboration On-going professional conversations Formal mentoring No-risk help requests Teacher leadership Professional Cultures in Schools The ABIT Autonomous Brilliant Idiosyncratic Teacher Howland & Picciotto

  4. Adults Learn Best self-initiated & directed connected to experience collegial & collaborative job-embedded sustained over time Most Effective PD learner-centered reflective inquiry collaboration problem-solving ongoing, site-based Research Says....

  5. Informational Changes what you know Transformational Changes howyou know understand make meaning see self/others Two Kinds of Learning

  6. Pillars of Professional Learningfrom Ellie Drago-Severson, Helping Teachers Learn Teaming/ Collaboration Teacher Leadership Inquiry/ Reflection Mentoring & Peer Coaching

  7. 4 Pillars to Transformative Learning Working in teams - inevitable sharing of different points of view with opportunity to define & refine one’s own Inquiry, Reflection - possibility of examining your assumptions underlying practice, your hierarchy of values Teacher Leadership - seeing from larger perspective and modifying one’s more limited point of view Mentors & Peer Coaching - formal agreements to observe and provide mutual feedback

  8. What Do We Need to Grow?Laurent Daloz, Mentor Support - recognizing & affirming how we and our colleagues make sense of our experiences Challenge - exposing ourselves to new ways of thinking/feeling, going beyond our comfort zones Vision - “Is school good for the soul?”

  9. A Professional Learning Project A first step I could take... A colleague-partner could be.... Possible challenges/obstacles I foresee... What I’ve got going for me... What I think will be a personal challenge...

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