CS10K Community Facilitators and Social Learning Team Meeting January 14, 2013 Portland, OR

Meeting Objectives Understand what we individually and collectively bring to the project of facilitating the community and how our work is connected Come to a shared understanding of our formal responsibilities as facilitators and members of the social learning team Explore our individual learning needs and assets for online facilitation and begin to develop a learning agenda for the group Learn to use, and discuss ways to improve, the existing community platform functionality Add materials we have brought related to creativity and seed interaction around them Develop collective and individual plans of action for further seeding content and activities and, when sufficient we're made sufficient progress, to engage the teachers with whom we work in community activity Establish leadership group that will steward the community as a whole and encourage distributed leadership over time

Facilitator Responsibilities - Project Facilitate engagement of participants in your PD projects in the community – Recruit participants – Assist participants with use of the CoP – Answer participant questions – don’t let postings go for more than 24 hours without a response – Provide recognition of excellent participation – Get PIs (and other experts) to participate when important and possible Upload and categorize relevant project content – Prompt/facilitate discussion about it – Help curate (classify, summarize, retire) resources and postings from participants Moderate discussions in your and your project participants’ areas of interest and specialty – Figure out what isn’t being talked and start and moderate discussions – Engage relevant users in discussions (e.g., a teacher that mentioned a similar thing earlier)

Facilitator Responsibilities - Global Form and moderate ad hoc groups, projects, and events – Determine topics and products of shared interest across projects – Work with PIs to organize events Help improve the community design and support other projects – Update others on your project activities and outcomes – Review and respond to formative assessment reports – Provide feedback and suggestions to social learning team about technology Participate in a leadership team Participate in bi-weekly online meetings of the facilitators Participate in training and professional learning opportunities provided by the social learning team

Social Learning Team Responsibilities Coaches community coordinator and facilitators and provides training Liaisons with NSF, ED, other organizations (e.g., CSTA, Ensemble) as needed Curates content and activities Identifies possible bridging activities and external collaborations Advises facilitators and community coordinator on resolving conflicts Builds, supports and improves community technology Conducts and presents formative assessment

Social Network Mapping

Outcome Mapping Start Here 1.Presenting Problem 2. Tentative Outcome Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved Focus of Change: What the community does

Knowledge Skills Attitudes See Hear Where/When Outcome Mapping 3. Desired Behaviors 4. Internal Resources Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved Focus of Change: Teachers Members of CS10K

Knowledge Skills Attitudes See Hear Where/When Outcome Mapping 5. Strategies Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved 6. Internal Resources Growth Agents: Facilitators & Social Learning Team

Know - Think I Know - Want to Know KnowThink I knowWant to know Task Group: Compare and share in a round-robin pattern On your own: Complete each column on your recording sheet Facilitating online communities Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved

Community Platform and Hands-On

Carousel Brainstorming Form groups of 3-4 Use one color of marker for each group – the marker travels with the group to each chart station Choose a recorder for your group Round 1: Brainstorm and record ideas for the category/topic at your home chart Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved

Carousel Brainstorming Round 2: Rotate to new chart station Review ideas listed on chart and categorize or consolidate Brainstorm and add additional new ideas Repeat process until you return to your home chart Final Round: Review information and prepare any questions, as appropriate Groups at Work – Copyright MiraVia LLC – All rights reserved

Dot Voting Allocate your ten dots across the set of ideas you find most promising You can put more than one dot on a given item

Individual Facilitation Plans Your statement of work is a starting point Goals for the year – What you want to achieve with teachers – What you want to learn about facilitation Plans and objectives for Q1 – Specific activities and content on which you want to work in the community – Specific knowledge, skills, abilities, or dispositions at which you’d like to get better

Leadership Groups Distributed leadership structure for the community – Start with facilitators – Invite in members over time Initial groups – Agenda activists – Community keepers / critical friends – Social reporters / external messengers

Agenda Activists Custodians of the learning agenda Keep track of issues, challenges, and learning opportunities Ask questions such as: What are key issues? Which should we prioritize? Where are we getting stuck? What resources to do need?

Community Keepers / Critical Friends Paying attention to the different voices being heard or not in the community Determining what’s working and what’s not Whose voices or being heard? Whose aren’t? Why, and what can we do about it? Can newcomers find way in? Are we building trust and commitment? What’s working well? What’s not? What kinds of activities and content are proving most engaging? How can we make better use of community members’ time?

Social reporters / External messengers Create a shared memory for the group Take stewardship for the public face of the community What insights, stories, and community outputs should be captured and recorded? How should they be shared? How do we respect privacy? What are key external audiences, and how do we reach them? What are the key messages we want to convey? What support do we need to curate and publish resources or convene events?

“Tweet” a Next Step Your next step as a facilitator 140 characters or less Write on flip chart If you use Twitter, tweet using #cs10k