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.
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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)
Brianna Crowley defines a Professional Learning Network as “a vibrant, ever-changing group of connections to which teachers go to both share and learn.” (2016) Prior to taking my first graduate course in the Digital Learning and Leading program, I was involved with two of the PLNs listed, but I did not realize that is what they were. I will admit that I have not been a very involved member of my PLNs, I do a lot more learning than sharing. The Facebook group for AVID teachers is the one that I use the most as I am the only AVID elective teacher on my campus and this connects me to AVID elective teachers all over the nation. I go to this group to see examples (in picture or video format) of team building activities other teachers are using and occasionally ask questions when I face difficulty finding resources on my own. The technology department in my district has a twitter account and they host twitter chats a few times per semester. I participated once did not return because I was frustrated with the twitter app; I will admit my fixed mindset took over and instead of viewing the hashtags/handles/retweets as a challenge I could grow from, I gave up. I recently discovered the Teaching Channel and I am very intrigued by it because it offers video sources and gives teachers a space for Q&A over any topics.
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