Professional Learning in the FTLA Something Related to Fear There are times when you can ask questions or challenge ideas, but ifyouve got a teacher that doesnt like that or the kids in the class make fun ofpeople who do that, its bad.I think most ofus learn that its best to just keep your head down, your mouth shut, and your grades high. Community Professional Development isnt about growing ourselves, its about growing each other. Empathy Cultivating a human-centered approach Bringing diverse people together for collaboration Focusing on whats meaningful to people Engendering hope Embracing possibility Consensusamongemployersisthatinnovation, criticalthinking,andabroadskillsetareimportant for taking on complex challenges in the workplace.5 50%51%52%59%57%Our company puts a priority on hiring people with the intellectual and inter-personal skills that will help them contribute to innovation in the workplace Candidates demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly,& solve complex problems is more important than their undergraduate major Our company is asking employees to take on more responsibilities and to use a broader set of skills than in the past Innovation is essential to our company/organizations continued success The challenges employees face within our company are more complextoday than they were in the past Strongly agree with this statement about employees/future hiresSomewhat agree 95% 93% 93% 92% 91% The Student/Educator Mirror Motivators Autonomy Goal directed, authentic value Mastery Success breeds capacity Purpose Make it fun and interesting to come to school Research Set a clear end goal Identify your authentic value Set intermediate goals Celebrate accomplishments Get involved outside the classroom Make connections with the world Shift Happens 2014 Remix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZg51Il9no ) !"#$%&%' #) *+%%",-.&/0 !" $%&'( )* +" ,'&-+)-% &(. '%/%-+ 0&,&-)+1 +" 2("3 4"'% )* 4"'% -')+)-&$ +5&( 35&+ )* 2("3( 0"((%-+)"(*6 ("+ -"(+%(+6 &'% +5% 7%8)(()(8 ,")(+ "9 +5% $%&'()(8 ,'"-%** :%&'()(8 )* & (%+3"'2 9"'4)(8 ,'"-%** Ideas from the Field Part I:Howard Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges ofParticipatory Culture How its done: 1.With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic participation 2.With strong support for creating and sharing ones creations with others 3.With some type ofinformal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices 4.Where members believe their contributions matter 5.Where members feel some degree ofsocial connections with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created).(7) Ideas from the field Part II: Etienne Wenger, Communities ofPractice Reification and Participation as a binary in learning:

Participation combines doing, talking, thinking,feeling and belonging. It involves our whole person, including our bodies, minds, emotions, and social relations (56) Reification: Any community ofpractice produces abstractions, tools, symbols, stories, terms, and concepts that reify something ofthat practice in a congealed form (59).

These Are Problems ofPractice A general consensus has grown that professional learning benefits from a community ofpractice/inquiry approach, as it then becomes embedded in the day to day work ofthe practitioner and at the same time provides the practitioner with a networked community with which to share best practices and to reflect more deeply on how learning happens within its situated context (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999; Borko, 2004; Au, Raphael, & Mooney, 2008; Grubb, et al., 2011).Habits ofMind Individuals with a growth mindset, Carol Dwecks research demonstrates, believe that a persons true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that its impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years ofpassion, toil, and training. Metacognitive Conversation Share Responsibility for Rehumanizing Education Forming a safety net ofcaring participants is essential: one that values problem-solving, dialog, consensus building, and understands that dissonance creates opportunity. Next comes having these participants provide highly visible, safe spaces for personal support for learning across campus. Networks Work To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, as Brown suggests, we must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work and learning how to build empathetic networks that foster community. This is why we built FTLA, and this is why we begin from the premise that student success lives here. Empathy=Each One Bring One, Each One Teach One A leader is anyone who holds her- or himselfaccountable for finding potential in people and processes. Professional Development isnt about growing ourselves, its about growing each other. Remember How We Forgot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVJuA0jr6Y&feature=player_embedded) Lets Be Open and Vulnerable, Lets Burn with Creativity, Lets Make Student Success Live Here, Now