#BadgeChat was founded in December, 2014 by a group of educators who are passionate about credentialing learning and achieving. While there are thousands of us around the globe issuing badges to learners, there was not yet a regular twitter chat for those of us in the K-12 space to gather for learning and sharing about badging. After reaching out to leaders in the field (like the good folks at Mozilla and The Badge Alliance) for their thoughts, #BadgeChat was born.
Welcome to #BadgeChat!!! Grateful for your time and energy this afternoon. Please let us know who you are and what excites you. Lurkers, you are welcome to say "Hola" as well!
I'm Noah in Denver. Proud collaborator of @aurorak12, passionate cheerleader and #BadgeChat community organizer. I'm excited about learning and using that learning to grow and improve!
Q1: Commitment to Continuous Improvement starts with CULTURE. What are an organization’s cultural conditions that support Continuous Improvement work? #BadgeChat
A1: I think a big part of this is having a culture where mistakes are allowed. Its never helpful when we expect things to be perfect the first try. #badgechat
Q1: Commitment to Continuous Improvement starts with CULTURE. What are an organization’s cultural conditions that support Continuous Improvement work? #BadgeChat
A1: Leaders who create **safe space** for sharing critical (and caring) input is huge for Culture that supports Cont Improvement. People who know critique is valued will be honest in sharing it rather than tip toeing in fear of repercussions #BadgeChat
Q1: Commitment to Continuous Improvement starts with CULTURE. What are an organization’s cultural conditions that support Continuous Improvement work? #BadgeChat
So true!!! Mistakes are inevitable in the most innovative work that serves learning communities. Like the word "allowed" as it's something deeper than "accepted" or "tolerated" #BadgeChat
When teachers are encouraged and welcomed to implement improvements with meaningful feedback from colleagues and administrators, that may foster an atmosphere of openness towards continuous improvement. #BadgeChat
That’s true in my experience.I’ve been attempting many new things this year that might look untraditional & sound that way, trusting the process & knowing that short term new practices may take a while to come to fruition is a piece of the puzzle. We need time & space for this
#badgechat A2: encouragement toward exploration, expectations to be vulnerable when things don’t go S expected, allow for grace & most important: C E L E B R A T E for oneself & others when things do work well.
A2: Assume positive intent. When feeling defensive, respond with questions bc input is about your work, not about you. It's OK to be frustrated/upset...handle it with class and everyone will support you. #BadgeChat
A2: On top of everyone's great comments for Q1, I would say having a regularly scheduled time or part of your process that encourages this feedback helps.
We rarely get better by accident. It takes intentional Continuous Improvement. If that's the stuff that excites you, join us in 10 minutes for #BadgeChat!
Q4: Talk is cheap. How do we show through our actions that Continous Improvment is a valued and a central piece of our initiatives?
(yes, I skipped Q3) #BadgeChat
Totally! The Revisit one could be really key...How often do Teachers get a survey that we suspect nobody is even checking responses, much less utilizing then to inform improvement? #BadgeChat
So, in other words, don't wait for an end-of-semester moment to improve...institutionalize regular, real-time opportunities to collect feedback? #BadgeChat
A4: Be intentional about identifying changes in the work that can be traced to improvement feedback and share that with users...let people know their input impacted change! #BadgeChat
Thanks for the small and mighty #BadgeChat tonight! Pleasure to have @ms_mouna join as well as our regular Badge Chatters Kyle and Amy dropping inspiration bombs on us!
