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Fostering Growth with an Innovative Learning Community |
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Dr. Lisa Flanders-Dick
Fostering educators' growth is a crucial element of effective technology-enhanced teaching & learning. This includes a variety of learning opportunities/formats, collaboration, networking, and professional organizations. Walk away from this session with ways to integrate an innovative learning community to foster professional growth for a district, university, or teaching program.
| Audience: | Curriculum/district specialists, Professional developers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
| Topic: | Personalized learning |
| ISTE Standards: | For Education Leaders: Empowering Leader
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The purpose of this session is to spark interest in fostering educators' professional growth while exploring the personalization and "out-of-the-box" solutions offered through an innovative learning community that can be joined or replicated within a school, district, university, or teaching program.
In this interactive session, the objective focus is as follows:
1. Participants will explore an innovative learning community aligned with pedagogy aspects.
2. Participants will investigate avenues to personalize professional learning opportunities while supporting a collaborative community.
3. Participants will generate possible uses and solutions the innovative learning community can provide.
Technology Intervention
The Hub Innovative Learning Community is part of the Hub in the College of Education at Louisiana Tech University. It was built using Coursera. Coursera partners with over 200 universities to provide courses, hands-on projects, specializations, and certifications. There are over 7000 courses and projects available on Coursera. The Hub Learning Community has incorporated 200 courses/projects and is also adding its own material. Additional courses/projects can be added according to the needs of the participants.
Models Employed
Fostering Growth is one of the six elements of the TETL School Leadership Model.
Flanders-Dick, L. (2022). A qualitative study identifying a school leadership model promoting and fostering technology-enhanced teaching and learning (Publication No. ) [Doctoral dissertation, Louisiana Tech University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
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Liu, F., Ritzhaupt, A. D., Dawson, K., & Barron, A. E. (2016). Explaining technology integration in k-12 classrooms: A multi-level path analysis model. Educational Technology Research and Development, 65(4), 795–813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9487-9
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World Education Forum. (2015). Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality lifelong learning for all. Incheon, South Korea: World Education Forum.
Dr. Lisa Flanders-Dick is an educator with over 25 years of experience. She is passionate about empowering educators through leadership, professional learning, and effective technology-enhanced teaching and learning. Flanders-Dick is currently at Louisiana Tech University where she serves in the College of Education as an Early Childhood and Elementary Education professor. She also coordinates the Hub in the College of Education, a learning community for educators which supports and strengthens teaching and learning across all stages of education through professional development, resources, and research.
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