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4.1 Change Agent
Coaches inspire educators and leaders to use technology to create equitable and ongoing access to high-quality learning. Coaches:
4.1.a
Create a shared vision and culture for using technology to learn and accelerate transformation through the coaching process.
4.1.b
Facilitate equitable use of digital learning tools and content that meet the needs of each learner.
4.1.c
Cultivate a supportive coaching culture that encourages educators and leaders to achieve a shared vision and individual goals.
4.1.d
Recognize educators across the organization who use technology effectively to enable high-impact teaching and learning.
4.1.e
Connect leaders, educators, instructional support, technical support, domain experts and solution providers to maximize the potential of technology for learning.
Evidence of Competency
Evidence of Competency
Artifact One: Recognizing Technology Educators
Indicator(s)
4.1.d Recognize educators across the organization who use technology effectively to enable high-impact teaching and learning.
Description
This artifact is an image created in Canva to be shared via social media or internally within the district as a flyer to influence teachers to follow their colleagues on Twitter/X. The flyer shares Twitter/X handles of Pomona Unified School District educators who use technology effectively to enable high-impact teaching and learning (4.1.d).
Implementation
This artifact was shared with staff in the PLC classroom and teacher’s lounge, posted in the office, shared at staff meetings and Tweeted by Arroyo Elementary and PUSD Ed Tech to promote teachers who use technology in the district. It was retweeted across the district by other educators to expand the reach of high-impact teaching and learning (4.1.d).
Impact
Teachers at Arroyo Elementary were influenced by this flyer to create their own Twitter/X accounts. A new flyer was then created to share their new handles and build a stronger professional learning community across the district. Teachers were inspired to take pictures of equitable classroom activities (4.1.d) and share them while tagging accounts listed on the flyer. This flyer helped teachers connect with each other and step outside their comfort zone so they could recognize and be recognized as using technology effectively to enable high-impact teaching and learning (4.1.d).
Artifact Two: Benefits of Twitterchats
Indicator(s)
4.1.e
Connect leaders, educators, instructional support, technical support, domain experts and solution providers to maximize the potential of technology for learning.
4.1.c
Cultivate a supportive coaching culture that encourages educators and leaders to achieve a shared vision and individual goals.
Description
The Benefits of Twitterchats is a Canva slideshow that provides an overview of five benefits of Twitterchats in an educational setting. The benefits explored in the presentation are networking, sharing, learning, lasting, and inspiring. These benefits cultivate a supportive coaching culture that encourages educators and leaders to achieve a shared vision and individual goals (4.1.c). Each slide elaborates how each identified benefit helps to maximize the potential for technology learning (4.1.e).
Implementation
The topic of Twitterchats and the slideshow were shared in a summer PLC meeting containing Ed Tech coaches from the district. The coaches at Arroyo found a Twitterchat to participate in over the summer and connected with other Ed Tech educators, leaders, instructional support, technical support, domain experts, and solution providers (4.1.e) nationwide as the educational community prepared for the new school year. This presentation will be shared with the school site as a way to plan to participate in a Twitterchart in the future to maximize the potential of utilizing technology for learning (4.1.e) and to encourage educators and leaders to work together to achieve their shared vision and individual goals (4.1.c).
Impact
This artifact inspired the Ed Tech team at Arroyo to host a future Twitterchat for teachers to participate in as a way to connect and share their knowledge of technology, as well as learn new ways to incorporate technology for learning (4.1.e). This artifact also helped to have the team work together in prepping for the new school year as we began to outline topics of future PD that the Ed Tech site team would be hosting each month. Though I will not see the final impact, I changed schools this fall. My hope is that the Ed Tech site leaders will continue with the plan to host a Twitterchat PD for the staff to participate in so the whole school would experience the benefits of a Twitterchat as identified in the artifact, as well connect with each other to cultivate the shared vision (4.1.c) and maximize the potential of Twitter/X (4.1.e) as an education resources and PLC.
Reflection
Reflection
As a coach, I have helped to inspire educators and leaders to use technology to create equitable and ongoing access to high-quality learning experiences. First, recognizing technology educators at the district and school has helped cultivate a culture of sharing and collaboration (4.1.c). Teachers who have been resistant to sharing their learning experiences in their classrooms are taking to Twitter to open their classrooms to the world to share how they effectively enable high-impact teaching and learning (4.1.d).
By collaborating with the Ed Tech Arroyo PLC about Twitterchats, we formulated a way to have the rest of the school participate in a new form of PD they have yet to be exposed to. The Twitterchat will be shared by the school and retweeted by other schools, including the district, to expand the reach of the Twitterchat. This will help to connect leaders, educators, instructional support, technical support, domain experts and solution providers to maximize the potential of technology for learning (4.1.e) and to create a shared vision (4.1.c). Since I have moved schools this year, I hope the school site will still plan to do the Twitterchat as we discussed during our summer planning time. I plan to promote the Twitterchat with my new colleagues at my school to expand the conversation and opportunity for learning to a larger audience.
I believe that I have developed my skills as a coach and have shown strength as a coach in standards 4.1.c, 4.1.d, and 4.1.e through the use of the evidence “Recognizing Technology Educators” and “Benefits of Twitterchats.”
Indicators 4.1.a and 4.1.b are areas that I also feel strength in. In regards to 4.1.a, I have helped my colleagues create a shared vision and culture for using technology to learn and accelerate transformation through the coaching process by hosting monthly Ed Tech school staff meetings. For the past three years, I was a TTL (Teacher technology Lead) and would attend monthly district meetings with the other 2 TTLs from my site. Subsequently, we would gather information from the district and deliver it to the staff. Topics included digital citizenship, online safety, acceptable use policy, distance learning, Ed Tech tools like Flip, Padlet, Pear Deck, and Google Classroom. Through this time as a TTL, I also developed strength in indicator 4.1.b. The monthly tech staff meetings helped me to build my skills in facilitating the equitable use of digital learning tools and content that meet the needs of each learner.
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