Presentation for 2013 NAIS "Revolutionize Your Professional Development" Authors: Kim Sivick,Liz B. Davis, Anthony McGrann, Shannon Montague

1. Revolutionize Your
Professional
Development

2. Kim Sivick
SpringsideChestnut Hill Academy
ksivick@sch.org
@ksivick

3. Liz Davis
Belmont Hill School, MA
davis@belmonthill.org
@lizbdavis

4. Anthony McGrann
Epiphany School, Seattle
amcgrann@epiphanyschool.org
@mrmcgrann

5. Shannon Montague
Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore
smontague@brynmawrschool.org
@montysays

6. StandUp If....

7. StandUp If...
Your faculty is excited
by your in-house
Professional
Development Days

8. StandUp If....
You are satisfied
with your in house
Professional
Development Days

9. StandUp If....
You have in-house
experts who could
share their
knowledge.

10. Sit down If....
You are an
administrator

11. Sit down If....
You are a
classroom
teacher

12. What?
So What?
Now What?

13. What?

14. unconference

16. Passionate Learning
starts with
Passionate
Educators

17. Share
your
passion

18. Hang out with
passionate people

19. In Dec of 2009
a group of 10 educators
from 10 different schools
both public and private
decided to revolutionize PD
and planned the first edcamp

21. Free
Non-commercial
Participant driven
No keynotes
Anyone can present
Law of 2 feet

22. Videos on Edcamp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyceeXzuPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDUIoMavLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7teMAk-hA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7kBnudi_8I

25. Vision & 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.

26. Over 200 edcamps
since the first
edcampPhilly
in May of 2012

39. Edcamp.wikispaces.com
Edcamp.org

40. So What?

41. Public Private

42. space

43. people

44. model for
schools

45. commitment

46. motivation

47. collaboration

48. participation

49. differentiation

50. Curriculum Mapping

51. Engagement

52. Teacherleadership

53. collegiality

54. cost effectiveness

56. Now What?

57. learner centered
knowledge centered
assessment centered
community centered
"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School"
National Research Council, 2000

58. At your school . . .

59. At my school . . .

60. Learner Centered
explore
teach

61. Knowledge Centered

62. Assessment Centered
Project-based Learning in Elementary
School
Teaching Art Technology
iPads from Pilot to Implementation
Discussing Online Learning
Teacher Evaluations
"This style empowers teachers in a way that normal meetings do not, and I
believe heightens engagement and reflection after the meeting is over."

63. Community Centered

64. Considerations
facilitators first time length and size of
around sessions
ability for follow up;
time for faculty
thoughtful reflection
networking, teaming, c
(through
onversation
blogging, etc.

65. What's next?
Teachers Unplugged:
a Revolutionary Salon
Tomorrow
#NAISUP
@ksivick
@lizbdavis
@mrmcgrann
March 2, 2013 @montysays
www.edcampis.org

66. Methods of thought which
claim to give the lead to
our world in the name of
revolution have
become, in
reality, ideologies of
consentand not of
rebellion.
Albert Camus