EduCon 2027Small is All: Transforming Equity Facilitator Development through Deeper Learning
In this session, representatives from the Office of Professional Learning within the School District of Philadelphia will tell the story of the evolution of School Leader Equity Pathways PD through the intentional development of our Equity Facilitators, composed of a group of committed, equity-centered school and central office leaders. Our Equity PD Pathways represent an innovative approach to adult professional learning centering deeper learning practices, and is guided by adrienne maree brown’s (amb) book, Holding Change. The book’s mantra that “small is all” motivated a shift to enhance participants’ learning experiences by developing 60+ equity PD facilitators to impart deep and transferable learning. The “small is all” approach is a model for leaders to take back to their schools, reverberating the benefits to their own teachers and students. Moreover, this model of facilitator development and professional learning, also informed by the National SEED Project, counters more traditional PD commonly experienced by teachers and leaders.
Conversational Practice
Outcomes – Participants can expect to experience and/or take back to their schools/organizations: Support and practices to develop and sustain systemwide equity-centered leadership Understand the explicit connection revealing facilitator development as a transformational approach to leadership development Experience strategies to elevate and innovate professional learning including high leverage engagement strategies and deeper learning This will be accomplished through: 1. Introduction & Inclusive Welcome: Name Stories 2. Surveying the room: What is your experience with Professional Learning? Share a time when you experienced transformative Professional Learning & why. Do you have access to equity centered professional learning or other PD that supports your role, identities, and experiences? Do you have access to development to help you advance your career? 3. Brief overview of the history and logistics of School Leader Equity Pathways PD 4. Describe how our facilitator development has evolved to focus on “small is all” and deeper learning 5. Participant reflection/share out of what’s something new/different they’d want to do —What is one small thing that you heard that will shift the way you think about and implement professional development? —Design thinking activity - take the one small thing and use the Crazy 8’s activity to dream up ways to design and iterate upon this practice —IQI – Insight, question, idea Question: Consider what change in participants' behavior or opinion would indicate you have been successful in your goals. There may be multiple indicators for each of your goals.
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