JILL GOUGH

DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

TRINITY SCHOOL 2012-13

Jill Gough Striving to be: Community Member, Master Teacher, Lifelong Learner Blog: [Link] Email: jgough@[Link] Twitter: @jgough
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When asked what I do, I either say that I serve as connective tissue or that I am an idea girl. I am intentional about serving as a bridge. I am also committed to modeling what we want to see in our school. Actions speak so much louder than words. I think (and hope) that I succeed more than I fail. To that end, I have set out to model using our learning spaces to engage faculty in learning experiences that are a c t i ve, h a n d s - o n , a n d u s e technology in adaptive and transformative ways. I work to

model seeking feedback, sharing feedback, and using feedback to learn and grow. Serving as connective tissue gives me great joy. If our schools believe communication and collaboration are important, how are we modeling this for our community? Being an idea girl soothes and feeds me as a teacher-learner. I want to risk, struggle, learn, and belong. As evidence of this bridge work, connective work, and idea work, please see the following stories and reections of my learning.

Connecting within Trinity:

Celebrate and Grow Communication and Collaboration: Protocol for offering and receiving feedback Implemented Learning Spaces (physical and digital): The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia Movie and popcorn #DoDifferent PD Co-teaching and Co-learning: Continued Co-Teaching World Languages with @j_kuipers3 #TrinityLearns Project-based Learning and Design Thinking: Im not smarter than these 6th gradersPosh Problem Posse in action Part 2 Personal Learning and Growth: Charlottes Web Book Club Chpts 4-5 - Jills Notes

Connecting outside Trinity:

Using Social Media: Learn and ShareA reason to tweet #TrinityLearns Learning Forward: Leading Learners to Level Up #LevelUpMath #LearnFwd12 the details Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference: Art of Questioning reection #NspiredatT3 Discussing Grading Philosophy and How we Report Progress: Report Card Summit Part 2 (#RCSatl) March, 2013 Jill Gough Director of Teaching and Learning Blog: [Link] Skype: [Link] Email: jgough@[Link] Twitter: @jgough Learn and share!

Modeling feedback loops:

Learner Choice and Voice: PD experiment: I want to learn & I can teach (5 of 4) Vertical Coordination of Curriculum: Vertical Coordination PD: Divide and conquer as a team: Feedback and Reection

My Goal:
To purposefully act to forward Trinity Schools mission, faculty-learners and student-learners will grow signicantly in their use of reection and the formative, diagnostic, and self-assessment knowledge that come from such an approach to learning.

Strategic: Publishing a minimum of one reection per week will model

and practice reective teaching practices that mirror the reective learning practices we expect from My Learning student portfolios. Measurable: Success will be measured in several ways. Will we publish meaningful reections every week? Will we enhance others learning by commenting on reections and/or by sharing the reections with others? Will faculty-learners embrace the My Learning philosophy and model reective practices for student-learners? Attainable: Every journey begins with a rst step. Reection on practices occurs every day. Publishing a reections every week is the target. If a stumble occurs (a missed week), there is always the next week to recover and try again. It is an iterative process. Results-oriented: Portfolios support a growth mindset by allowing learners to track their learning and growth over time and offer opportunities to modeling networked learning and develop community partners. Time-bound: We expect our student-learners to reection on their learning periodically throughout the entire school year; therefore, the goal is to publish at least one reection every week during the 2014-2015 academic year.

Action Steps:
Intentionally reect and question to grow and learn. Publicly publish my reections at Experiments in Learning by Doing using the tag #MyLearning. Connect with others by broadcasting each post via Twitter. Jill Gough Director of Teaching and Learning Blog: [Link] Skype: [Link] Email: jgough@[Link] Twitter: @jgough Learn and share! Reect on learning by keeping a running record in an e-portfolio. Encourage and provide opportunities and support for others to develop professional portfolios that document learning, growth and reections. Support reection, questioning, and growth of learners by designing and engaging in professional development opportunities for teacher-learners to learn by doing. Examples: PLuGIn: SynergyEDU 1.0 for teacher-learners to experience collaborative problem-nding and problem-solving. MyLearningEDU 1.5 for teacher-learners to model and experience My Learning from the student perspective.