TIME Day--Process for Collaborative Sharing

We are looking forward to TIME for professional learning on Friday.  I know many of you have identified your focus area for Genius Hour.  Below is the link for Genius hour possibilities.  Remember that these are just possibilities....you are encouraged to explore other ideas that match your needs and interests.  Please come to TIME day with your target area identified in order to keep your focus in one area.

Genius Hour Possibilities

When reviewing feedback, many teachers indicated that they would like more opportunities to share, not only with their collaborative team, but with other teachers across the district.  To help support this, we will be using the technology tool Flipgrid.  After you have researched your Genius Hour topic, we would like each teacher to upload a short video to Flipgrid.  On the link below, you will find categories connected to the Curriculum circles.  Choose the one that best matches your area of study (there is also an 'other' category).  Then briefly reflect on one thing that you learned during your genius hour related to the focus area.  During sharing time at the end of the day, you can not only get ideas from your collaborative team, but you may also review ideas from other colleagues.  The Flipgrid tool will take you through all of the prompts, but please contact us if you have any questions on how to use it.

Flipgrid SEP TIME Day Reflections

If you would like to see what Flipgrid looks like in action, please click on the link below to hear reflections from the SEP Professional Development Steering Committee on why Genius Hour is important for our learning.

Flipgrid Practice

Again, we are looking forward to Friday and learning from each other!