1. AEIN Celebration & Symposium
UAA Library
April 21 & 22, 2008
AEIN Celebration & Symposium

2. Assumptions Everyone is a learner, teacher, & leader
Smarter educators help all students become smarter
All of us are smarter than any one of us
People learn better in culturally responsive environments
Improving education for all is possible, but will take time, patience, and new learning
And…
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3. There is no silver bullet!
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4. A Vision of Success
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5. Student Success Outcomes
Each and every student will know him/herself, personal frames of reference, areas of strength, and areas for growth, and be secure within his/her world and unique heritage.
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6. Student Success Outcomes
Each and every student will make well-informed decisions by analyzing evidence, discerning fact from opinion, asking critical questions, and thinking creatively about issues.
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7. Student Success Outcomes
Each and every student will define and inter-relate personal values, needs, and wants in order to identify goals, develop plans, and implement the plans to meet the goals.
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8. Student Success Outcomes
Each and every student will frame his/her own questions for inquiry/investigation and then access, gather, analyze information from multiple sources (e.g. book, internet, people) to develop answers to the questions as well as pose new questions.
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9. Alaska Educational Innovations Network
Our Shared Commitment….
Enhance the learning outcomes for each and every student by:
Building Community
Sharing Wisdom
Nourishing Learning
AEIN Data Team Workshop
2/2007

10. Celebration & Symposium Goals
Make our work public
Celebrate our progress
Collect & analyze data regarding the status of net work
Plan next steps for the network, based on our data
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11. Overview for Monday Complete Likert Scale as individuals
Organize for Poster Gallery Walk
½ posters on display for 11/2 hours
Presenters review work for minutes
Questioners view all, focus on designated posters
Reflection, then lunch
Repeat process with remaining posters
Question groups meet to identify themes, trends, outliers
Gallery walk to review analysis
Closing for Day
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12. Overview for Tuesday Deepen thinking about networks and networking
Draw your organization’s network
Review data from Monday
Gather in organizational groups to consider links between the network and your organization
Gather to build priorities for AEIN
Open Space protocol
Debrief
Enhance your organizational plan with potential connections within your organization and with the network
Evaluation of C & S
Closing
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13. Your Role as a Data Gatherer
Describe what you see and hear
Look for emerging patterns
Probe for additional descriptions to confirm or understand
Separate your descriptions from your feelings, using the T chart
Later, descriptive data will be used to discern trends and patterns in our actions
Your feelings and thoughts will be used to identify a shared sense of success and quality around our work
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14. Your Role as a Presenter
Scan the landscape by strolling through the posters for minutes
Go to your poster for presentation rounds (about 10 minutes per round)
Data gatherers move to assigned posters
Your team will give a descriptive overview of your key activities, addressing the 6 questions
Respond to additional questions
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15. Your Role as a Colleague & Celebrant
BEAM ME UP, SCOTTIE!
Give Kudos to your colleagues by posting notes next to their posters…
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16. Inquiring into Practice….
Why?
To gather data about how network’s big ideas show up in our work.
How?
Each person will have one question and specific posters on which to focus
Each will look at the assigned posters and ask probing questions.
What?
Important to note that this is descriptive data
Write thoughts, feelings & reactions on the other side of the T chart
Then What?
Big idea groups meet to collate & organize the data.
The collected data will be used later today and tomorrow.
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17. Organizing the Data…. Why? How? What? Then What?
To discover trends from the data you have collected
How?
Divide your group
Each person will report
Groups will clump data together into themes, noting frequency of responses
Groups will identify “outliers”
Groups reassemble to combine trends & patterns
Then, rank the themes according to frequency. What are the strongest themes? What are important trends?
Record the teams’ thoughts separately (do not clump)
What?
Use your judgment to discern & identify themes; be specific, but do not become mired in too much detail.
Then What?
Others will view your data representation for connections
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18. Reviewing & Connecting Themes
Why?
To see a brief “big picture” view of themes that have emerged
To identify connections among themes
To pose pertinent questions
How?
Groups will take a “gallery walk” to review other teams’ data
They will note “connections” from questions & observations and/or mark themes repeated in their own data.
Group members will pose questions about the data.
First gallery stop will be 10 minutes; subsequent stops will be 5 minutes.
Then What?
The evaluation team will take the data collected today and bring it back on Tuesday for group use
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19. Overview for Tuesday Welcome back!
Deepen thinking about networks and networking
Draw your organization’s network
Review data from Monday
Gather in organizational groups to consider links between the network and your organization
Gather to build priorities for AEIN
Open Space protocol
Debrief
Enhance your organizational plan with potential connections within your organization and with the network
Evaluation of C & S
Closing
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20. Data-wise: 3 stages, 8 steps
Stage I: PREPARE
1 Organize for Collaborative Work
2 Build Assessment Literacy
Stage II: INQUIRE
3 Create a Data Overview
4 Dig into Data
5 Examine Instruction
Stage III: ACT
6 Develop an Action Plan
7 Plan to Assess Progress
8 Acting and Assessing

21. Deepening net work thinking
Consider:
Your personal network
Connection of principles of networks to your personal network & to AEIN
Hierarchical to network forms/characteristics
Your role as a leader in a network
AEIN’s net work challenges
So how can this help student learning?
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22. Between now and 11:10 Take a well-deserved break
Return to your organizational group (school, college)
Read pages in the handout (up to “leverage technology”
Discuss what knowledge, skills, and dispositions we need as leaders to enhance the network
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23. If it’s a network, you can draw it…draw your organization’s connections within AEIN
Using your organization as the hub, draw the network connections that support your AEIN work
Use one color
Label the connectors & nodes (e.g. math mini- network, NSA, distance ed, school exchange)
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