I am a director of teaching and learning for @knowledgeworks. my edu-celebration is being able to work with different colleagues to build our team and capacity! #akedchat
Hi I’m Sue, located in Juneau. My edu celebration comes from my little man finishing his last days of his first year of preschool! So proud of him! #akedchat
I'm Angie in Brevig Mission. 9-12 Social Studies and Language Arts. I'm celebrating the near end of a successful two week Art Camp at our school! #akedchat
A1) Ts working, researching, learning, reflecting and growing as educators together to find the most effective ways for kids to learn and grow. #akedchat
I am Laura, 5th Grade Teacher, Wrangell, Alaska. I am celebrating that my son who struggles a bit in school loved Kindergarten and played in his first violin concert! #Akedchat
A2: I imagine that as teachers we are stronger together than we are alone. It's tempting sometimes to shut the door and focus on my own little world, but that's not necessarily what's best for kids... #akedchat
So thankful you did and I feel like that is one of the wins from these chats-quick and easy way to lift our practice and share. We are all learners! #akedchat
@hilgerl#Akedchat A3: This school year, I enjoyed reading all the tweets from across Alaska and trying to conect those educators to people & tools that can help them at their local level.
I challenged myself to read all the tweets that came from Alaskan Educators for a year...
My heart is full of joy and hope from all the incredible things that they shared!
https://t.co/FkDUIwD2sC#tlap#leadlap#culturize#akedchat
My celebration in this area is being intentional about connecting evidence from our work as a collective to impact on learners. The more we can discuss our evidence, I feel like the more we believe in one another as a team! #akedchat
Oh Angie, I think you have a great collective impact on highlighting teaching in Alaska... especially bush Alaska! It’s such an important perspective and I hope it inspires others to go teach in a rural district #akedchat#ruraledchat
Yes, I remember you posting about this challenge-so unique and a great example of how to begin thinking about this at a state level. Thanks for sharing! #akedchat
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A3) As a Principal it’s important that decisions made follow our school’s vision and are made by figuring out they “why” b4 the “what”. I’ve got to be better at learning together and then moving forward #akedchat
This is powerful. We are too into the what, what, what at times. Why is one of my favorite questions because it helps us stay grounded and focused on the north star so to speak-our students. #akedchat
A3: working with community members and teachers to give students more opportunities to improve their fitness. Started with a mile run last week. #akedchat#running
My area of improvement is to work more with my colleagues on reflecting about our evidences, even if it is from separate projects or sessions, so that it becomes more habitual. #akedchat
That’s awesome! I know some schools invite local yoga or Zumba instructors into the classrooms too! Involving the community is such a great idea! #akedchat
A5: I know my principal @gingacrockett has been reading loads of books on collective efficacy. Anybody have any recommendations I can download on my kindle? #akedchat
There are a bunch at the end of a great article on collective efficacy in the March edition of EL. Many from Hattie. There are several articles listed as well that I would like to read. #akedchat
I have really enjoyed seeing all the global collaborative projects like the #cardboardchallenge or global School Play day or read for the record where there is a common goal for people to share #akedchat
Try to nab a copy of Educational Leadership, March edition. There are several books listed worth a read, one being Hargreaves Professional Capitol: Transforming Teaching in Every School. There are a lot of articles listed to that I want to learn from. #akedchat
Because collective efficacy is such a huge leverage action, I really want to be thinking about this at the systems level and how we might offer more time for both teachers and leaders to build it. I hope you gained at least one thing from tonight's chat! #akedchat
#akedchat I think collective efficacy needs to be a term that is more familiar to people... I love that it emcompasses a team-based towards a common goal. Would love to see more!
