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__Supporting Faculty and Creating Best Practices__ Bryan Rosen - brosen@nightingale.org Christine Zaremba - czaremba@nightingale.org Pat Haugh - phaugh@isbrooklyn.org Robin Newman - rnewman@owncs.org

Is it that faculty don't want to come or they don't have time to be trained?

What works? Faculty meetings? 1:1 trainings? Inservice?

Food and money and acknowledgement are really big motivators.

Ideas/Past Practices Weeklong commitments - stipends were provided over the summer. (Selected groups of people at first) Expectation to work independently over the summer - bring curriculum, work on it, showcase. Teachers turn keyed that information in the future. Check in on projects - projects were exit tickets. Followup was meeting and classroom support.

Keep the group small and manageable.

Or, sign ups - paid, food, one week in August -exit ticket was completing a number of projects

Encourage teachers to visit other schools, or teaching with technology conferences

Tech spotlight - showcase great use of technology by teachers. Invite Head of School in to the classrooms, invite Communications to take pictures. (gaining buy in - recognition)

Opportunities to involve the faculty: Present to the board about great things happening in the classrooms (gaining buy in - recognition) Present to the parent association - have kids present to the board or to parents. (gaining buy in - recognition) Let parents know what's happening, show off! Put videos or student created projects/apps on the school website

Dangling carrot approach - throw out interesting tidbits and let them come to you. Actual training versus primers - here's how we all do this one particular thing versus here's an understanding of this piece of technology.

Grassroots model- when something starts to catch on and spread, it's because a core group of faculty have latched on and evangelized for it. Authentic spread of PLNs - faculty to faculty spread is significantly more effective than top down driven models

Time in day for in-service?

Gaining buy-in: Bring cool toys to the faculty room - show off apps, show off things happening. Get attention for the technology by showing it in use in a casual way.

Thoughts: Technology should be in direct support of curriculum or pedagogy Everything can be opt-in, opt-ins are based on how teachers are teaching their curriculum People will or won't embrace varying degrees of technology with this approach -based on comfort level and initiative

Huge projects like flipped or blended - do they work better as a compulsory/department wide initiative?

Team teaching - sometimes you have buy in from one teacher but not the others on the team

Half day summer workshops for departments or individuals

Form small committees of teacher for input and feedback. Invest teachers in ownership of projects and initiatives. OWNERSHIP

Takeways - Motivation from peers Inspiration rather than mandates FOOD Autonomy Money No one size fits all approach

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