I had been hearing many fellow educators rave about the positive impact vision boards can have, so I decided to have my students create them as a project for the end of the year. Here are a few examples of the finished products:
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I define disruptive innovation as the process that occurs when a new idea/practice that dares to challenge an old idea/practice is presented. According to Horn and Staker (2015), disruptive innovations "must get better and better according to the incumbent definition of performance while remaining more affordable, convenient, accessible, or simple." (p. 3) Basically that they have to 'one up' whatever the current standard is. Disruptive innovation is of high importance because without it, we would be at a standstill and not be progressing forward. Can you imagine a world without Netflix, Skype, or GPS? Upon their launch, all these were disruptive innovations.
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the AVID Summer Institute 2017 in San Antonio, Texas. Once again, this was a wonderful learning experience. The AVID Summer Institute is composed of strands and site team meetings; the strands are specific to your role on campus or content area, while the the site team meetings are based on your campus. This summer I attended the strand titled, "Advancing the AVID Elective in MS/HS". The wonderful thing about this strand was that all of the members present were the AVID elective teacher at their campus and were searching for ways to improve the elective to better benefit the students. It was great to have the time to engage in conversation with members from one of my professional learning networks face-to-face in a structured setting. Through discussion and collaboration, we were able to draft up many ideas and set goals for the upcoming school year.
This week wraps up my second course of the Digital Learning and Leading Program, EDLD 5303. This course gave me the opportunity to do the following:
-Learning Manifesto -Learning Communities (PLN)
Every year during the fall semester our school district celebrates College Week. During the 2016-2017 school year, in order to prepare for this week, my AVID elective classes worked on a project in which they had to research information about different universities and present this information to their classmates. In an effort to raise college awareness school wide, I had their Power Points streaming during all lunches that week. Something that took me by surprise was how excited the students were to have their final projects displayed during lunch. As I walked by the cafeteria I could overhear the students eagerly talking about their projects with other students; it was beautiful.
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