Listen and learn: Ed talk 
- Challenge/ Situation: 1.) There are two- Teachers often do not connect to PD. 2.) There is a high turnover rate/ teachers leaving because they do not feel appreciated, effective.
- Technology Intervention- This is actually the teachers who do not realize that they are doing incredible things to increase student engagement, learning, and student directed/led learning. The intervention here is actually a framework to identify teacher leaders who do not realize they are innovative and effective, build their capacity as teacher leaders so that they are engaged and support teachers across the district in the use and innovation of instructional technology.
- Our model is framework of personal connections, visits to the schools, teacher designed models for PD, optional PD, different modalities of learning (virtual synchronous, face to face, short intro sessions, longer lab sessions, videos, one pagers, and one on on), follow ups, recognition and leadership opportunities in the instructional technology PD circuit in the district.
-Evidence of Success- we will be sharing an outline of how this started, how it evolved and where we are now. We will share examples of change in student and teacher implementation of technology, as well as some data showing the growth of this program to incorporated more teachers.
-Opening Activity: "The Disconnected Connection"- using for seemingly unrelated pictures, participants will select one and identify which to them most represents the implementation of on-going support and PD for instructional technology classroom implementation in their districts. A few will share. Purpose of the activity will be shared (5 minutes)
-What do YOU as an adult learner NEED from your PD? What is your DREAM PD?- Share. (4-5minutes)
- Background of this framework (need for PD/Support during COVID) (1 minute)
- How we started it
- WHY we started it (educator support for Inst. Tech, teacher development, teacher retention) (2 minutes)
-PERSONAL outreach-- strategies we used for that. What worked/What did not. Insight from teacher feedback from that initial step. ) (3-4 minutes)
- The amazing, unexpected outcomes of year 1 (5 minutes)
- Year Two- Follow Up and Support; Teacher Leaders Take Charge; Getting Techy With It Blossoms (5-7 minutes)
- Flexible options (1 minute)
-Teacher driven times and design (1 minute)
- Bringing in more 'unsuspecting' teacher leaders to explore instructional technology (2 minutes) Unassuming Leaders (2 minutes)
Year Two Design and highlights (artifacts/data) 5 minutes
-Summer After year Two- Getting Techy With IT takes off
- Teachers Lead the Effort for Instructional Tech PD in the Summer (2 minutes)
- What it Looked Like (included brand new-to-us teachers) (3-4 minutes including outcome data)
- How we acknowledged all who engaged. (2 minutes)
- Year Three- The Teacher Leaders Lead- Technology and Student Engagement, Student directed/led learning, Teachers Leading Conference Sessions, Teachers Leading District PD- (2 minutes) Data (2 minutes)
- Where this year is going (2 minutes)
-Data we are looking for next (1 minute)
- START WITH ONE- participants create one way that can reach one new teacher leader to start the process., the Quiet Good- find the gems behind closed doors, create one new goal for teacher leadership to increase the effective use of instructional technology. Share.
Closure.
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