Revolutionize Your

Professional

Development

Kim Sivick

SpringsideChestnut Hill Academy

ksivick@sch.org

@ksivick

Liz DavisBelmont Hill School, MA

davis@belmonthill.org

@lizbdavis

Anthony McGrannEpiphany School, Seattle

amcgrann@epiphanyschool.org

@mrmcgrann

Shannon MontagueBryn Mawr School, Baltimore

smontague@brynmawrschool.org

@montysays

StandUp If....

StandUp If...

Your faculty is excited

by your in-house

Professional

Development Days

StandUp If....

You are satisfied

with your in house

Professional

Development Days

StandUp If....

You have in-house

experts who could

share their

knowledge.

Sit down If....

You are an

administrator

Sit down If....

You are a

classroom

teacher

What?

So What?

Now What?

What?

unconference

Passionate Learningstarts with

Passionate

Educators

Share

your

passion

Hang out with

passionate people

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

Free

Non-commercial

Participant driven

No keynotes

Anyone can present

Law of 2 feet

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

Videos on Edcamp:

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.

Over 200 edcamps

since the first

edcampPhilly

in May of 2012

Edcamp.wikispaces.com

Edcamp.org

So What?

Public Private

space

people

model for

schools

commitment

motivation

collaboration

participation

differentiation

Curriculum Mapping

Engagement

Teacherleadership

collegiality

cost effectiveness

Now What?

learner centered

knowledge centered

assessment centered

community centered

"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School"

National Research Council, 2000

At your school . . .

At school . . . my

teach

explore

Learner Centered

Knowledge Centered

Project-based Learning in Elementary

School

Teaching Art Technology

Discussing Online Learning

Teacher Evaluations

iPads from Pilot to Implementation

"This style empowers teachers in a way that normal meetings do not, and I

believe heightens engagement and reflection after the meeting is over."

Assessment Centered

Community Centered

facilitators first time

around

length and size of

sessions

time for faculty

networking, teaming, c

onversation

ability for follow up;

thoughtful reflection

(through

blogging, etc.

Considerations

March 2, 2013

www.edcampis.org

@ksivick

@lizbdavis

@mrmcgrann

@montysays

Teachers Unplugged:

a Revolutionary Salon

What's next?

Tomorrow

#NAISUP

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