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Professional Development Implementation Plan Dustin Ellis Azusa Pacific University Application of Tech-Support, Curriculum Tools EDTC 520 Elisabeth Silver July 21, 2013

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Professional Development Implementation Plan This year I will be starting a new job as a teacher on special assignment for EdTech Integration. One of the most important parts of this job will be providing professional development or PD to nearly 2000 teachers on 28 campuses. I have identified this as both an incredible opportunity and an incredible problem. At the end of the last school year due to budgetary issues our only two PD days were removed from the school calendar to save money! So the questions for me become; How do you change the paradigm from the traditional Sit-&Get model of PD to a more Make-&-Take model, and how do we achieve this with only one person actively working on the problem? First, to understand how to be an agent of change one must attempt to become a member of another paradigm. For past year I have immersed myself into a very different style of professional development. This is the unconference movement, specifically edcamp, which is quickly becoming a grassroots power in educational reform. Eduard Lindeman and Malcolm Knowles advocate that adult learning should be social and that small group discussion is a key element. Adult learning theory suggests that adult learners have a desire for control, flexibility, and feedback which are satisfied by the self-directed nature of edcamps.(Fucoloro, 2013)

It is not an organizationally led, politically led, top down model, instead it lives by the following vision and mission: Vision: Promoting organic, participant-driven professional development for k-12 educators worldwide. Mission: To support free edcamp unconferences for educators to exchange ideas and learn together. Edcamps are: free

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN non-commercial and conducted with a vendor-free presence hosted by any organization interested in furthering the edcamp mission made up of sessions that are determined on the day of the event events where anyone who attends can be a presenter reliant on the law of two feet that encourages participants to find a session that meets their needs (Vision & Mission, 2011) This is the culture that I will begin to foster beginning this fall. My Goals to achieve this new culture are:

1. Create a single sign on (SSO) portal page to serve as a login for all teacher web-services, a resource bank for teachers, a communications hub, and a PD library of tutorials and help files. a. Timeline: Take website live in September 2013. Resources, and libraries populated, and communications hub working by December 2013. b. Action Plan: 1. Select SSO 2. Select CMS 3. Design interface 4. User survey test 5. Go Live c. Assessment of Effectiveness: Initially by Test Users Survey, Then by Randomly selected users surveyed using Google Forms, and ultimately by the number and type of complaints/comments from daily users. 2. Educate teacher on the SAMR model of technology integration (Puentedura, n.d.) a. Timeline: Introduce concept initially to one-to-one mobile device pilot teachers, then to all teachers (timing depends on vendors and IT staff) using flipped video as all teachers get new laptops this fall.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN b. Action Plan: Develop f2f presentation using Google Sites and other online resources for one-to-one mobile device pilot teachers. Then refine this into a 3

minute or less video for district wide distribution as teachers receive new laptops. c. Assessment of Effectiveness: This is an technology integration model that is intended to provoke first thought and then transform a teachers idea of how to use tech in their teaching. This is non-evaluative, but I will look for clues as I move from class to class in my mentoring roles. 3. Use the adoption of Google Apps for Education as a starting place to begin to develop teacher PLNs and students PLNs a. Timeline: Implement Google+ for all teachers by September 2, 2013. Be in the process of building a library of documents, tutorials, and videos of Google+, Twitter, blog, and social bookmarking by November 20, 2013. b. Action Plan: Begin with intra district G+ communities; include documents, tutorials and videos of further usage and tips and tricks, as well as introductions to Twitter, blogs, and social bookmarking. c. Assessment of Effectiveness: Use Google Analytics to monitor usage, and also take note of activity on communities through the use of the GAFE Dashboard. 4. Rework face-to-face PD into an unconference model of participant led, make and take, experiential, personal choice driven affair! a. Timeline: [July] Discuss this concept with district level administrators and explain the benefits to everyone involved. [September] Present to site level administrators as a new option for PD that teachers will love. [September] recruit team of admins and teachers and plan the events (one day, multiple locations)[October]

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN begin to promote and educate teachers about this event through print ads in

mailboxes, using the portal, using emails, and using inspirational videos about this type of learning/development experience. [December] Final meetings and preparations. [January] Hold event. b. Action plan: Get leadership on board, recruit team, advertise/educate, implement, execute! c. Assessment of Effectiveness: Post event survey of Participants, planners, Administration. It is my hope that in these goals there is the spark to ignite a culture shift in the fabric of my school district. Professional Development has long been a vital tool for professionals of every stripe, and for educators too. Now that we are quickly moving into the world of tech in education we must realize that tech is no longer the icing on the cake, its the dough,(Bellow, 2013) and make it part of parcel of everything we do, and especially professional development.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN References Bellow, A. (July 26, 2013). ISTE 2013 Keynote address [Speech]. Given at ISTE 2013 Annual Conference Fucoloro, D. J. (2013, July 23, 2013). We are all #BetterTogether [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://theeducatorscafe.com/ Puentedura, R. (n.d.). SAMR Model. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/a/msad60.org/technology-is-learning/samr-model Vision & Mission. (2011). Retrieved from http://edcamp.org/vision/