2017 VCPD Central Region
Spring Summit
Facilitated by Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak
Newest PD Offering
A program that gives you a game plan for getting to a real change in practice.
You Will Get: The tools, clarity, and answers you need to put evidence-based strategies into practice.
You Will Have: Access to a community who will hold you accountable and help you leverage your strengths to change current practices.
You Will Become: A leader who is able to shift mindsets, invoke positive change, and achieve powerful results.
Flipped Learning Resources
Explore this manifesto on transforming professional development and learning and bring a question, quote, or comment to the Summit to share.
Read this blog on starting PD with "what" and/or portions of this chapter by Fink on significant learning outcomes (PDF pages 8-12).
Pick one of the following PD tools and explore before the Summit. And be sure to take notes and/or bookmark things of interest, you'll participate in a cooperative learning activity where you will share what you learned with others.
- Symbaloo
- Matching 5 moments of need with social media tools (e.g., twitter, pop-up FB groups)
- Podcasts [general blog post] [case examples]
Part 1: Finding Your Superpowers
Additional Digital Resources (have access but don't print)
• Transforming professional development and learning handout [pdf]
• Infographic on the "5 Domains of Stress" from Self-Reg by Stewart Shanker [pdf]
• A colleague of mine, Jonathan Fields, wrote a book titled, "How to Live A Good Life". In one of his chapters (Know What Matters), he provides a set of steps to help identify what you value most, and then how to make decisions that are in line with your values. The ability is a necessary skill for an effective leaders. The intent is to help you begin "saying yes to those thing that genuinely matter most to you."
• Looking to change something about you, your life, your work? Try the WOOP method developed and researched by Oettingen and colleagues. Click here to learn more, and here to access and try out the free app. I'll demonstrate how I've used the method to "turn down the shark music".
Resources Needed to Complete the Superpowers Self-Assessment
Go Deeper - Explore the Essence Glossary™ Package (free)
Each participant will receive a Workbook of Human Superpowers
Part 2: Significant Learning Outcomes
Examples of Significant Learning Outcomes (pdf)
Printed for you
- When writing significant learning outcomes, follow two “golden rules”. Rule #1, start with the “what” over the “how.” Rule #2, ask yourself, “How can what is offered engage a learner’s mind, body, and heart?”
- Professional development and learning offering should aim to include a mixture of goals including foundational goals, application goals, integration goals, human dimension goals, caring goals, and learning how to learn goals.
- For most of the generic learning outcome sentence starters, a sample is provided. Early childhood assessment and evaluation was used as the broad topic for generating the samples.
Significant Learning Outcome & Learning in a Social Age Resources
- Chapter by Fink on significant learning outcomes (PDF pages 8-12)
- WHAT IS ''SIGNIFICANT LEARNING"? [pdf]
- Identifying significant learning outcomes [link to a module]
- Julian Stodd's Blog and Podcast
Part 3: Matching "How" with "What"
Social Media Activity Resources
5 moments of need [infographic]
Social media tools and PD blog [link]
Developing a mindset for mobile learning - Julian Stodd [podcast]
Activity Directions (will be printed) [pdf]
Part 4: Work Session
ECED Bytes™ are professional development (preservice and inservice) resources created by a team of EI/ECED experts (think "Teachers Pay Teachers").
The resources are packaged into "byte" sized training content (PPT slides with talking points), activities (e.g., case studies, video demonstrates, small group pair and shares), and measurement tools for evaluating student/provider knowledge and skills.
All Bytes are grounded in andragogical principles and aligned with the Division for Early Childhood's Recommended Practices.
The Bytes are designed for faculty (full and part time) working in higher education (community colleges, technical college, four year institutions and universities), state and regional early intervention/early childhood consultants, and directors and supervisors of early intervention/early childhood programs.
Bytes represent a blending of general and special education philosophies and practices and are appropriate for all adult learners.
Click here to access the pilot ECED Bytes™
Continuing the conversation...
Resources Shared During F2F Event
• Coloring sheets from the Workbook of Human Superpowers (optin here)
• IEP Superpowers quiz (link)
• Gretchen Rubin's 4 Tendancies quiz (link)
• On-Being (podcast) Interview with Grace Lee Boggs (link)
• Child Care Bar and Grill (podcast)
• Blogs (Ethical Intelligence) (When to hold onto policies)
• Gratitude Revealed videos (link)
Resources Shared After the F2F Event
• Canva video tutorials [video]
• Amazon Web Services tutorials
• Adding new account to Amazon Web services [video]
• How to upload a file and make a file public [video]
• Symbaloo tutorial (TBP)
• IEP Makeover Tips and Tools ebook [link to form where you can request]
• New KPF blog on self-reflection [link]
• 3 new Pre-K Teach & Play blogs [link]
• 3 new Pre-K Teach & Play podcasts [link]
ECE Solutionary Membership program
Following a f2f gathering, we often look for ways to continue learning together.
Here's an idea...become an ECE Solutionary Member, or buy a membership for yourself, for a leader in your district/program, or for a team as part of common ongoing professional development and learning.
The ECE Solutionary membership program built on knowing the need for more real-life examples, better explanations, and some days, more inspiration. Members become better equipped to address diverse abilities, negotiate challenging and conflicting policies, and engage in their work with passion and purpose. You can
P.S. Read this blog with case examples of how other professional development providers have used the Pre-K Teach & Play resources (which are a critical part of the monthly membership solutions) at the preservice and inservice level.