ISI Pre-Reading:Moving Teachers to the Center of School Improvement by Robin Atwood https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o Written Discussion/Block Party en-us 2020-05-29 15:39:23 UTC 2026-01-30 17:17:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Written Discussion robinvatwood https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/601443504 Choose your biggest takeaway from the article. Start a "chart", and  paste your biggest takeaway. Then reply with why that section of the text resonated with you. After you've created your own "chart", visit the charts of your colleagues and reply. 

]]> 2020-05-29 15:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/601443504 Robin: "Collective Identity" robinvatwood https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/603776173 . . . network members adopt a collective identity as a group that accepts responsibility for improvement. . . members begin to see their engagement in network activities as both contributing to the collective and benefiting themselves. . . this may require teachers to undergo some identity and motivational shifts (such as from I to we). They might initially join the network because they think it will help them with their own core work (e.g., instruction), but their participation brings them to the realization that they can also help produce professional knowledge for and with the group.



]]> 2020-05-31 23:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/603776173 Shelley: Medicine for the Isolated Teacher- Transformation sputnam5 https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604618290 This sentence sums up the way I feel about SMWP and SI.  "As practitioners and researchers, we have personally seen how engagement within NICs breaks down the isolation of teaching and lack of collegiality that have often been typical in the profession and leverages the power of teacher leadership to address educational challenges."


]]> 2020-06-01 12:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604618290 Ashley: "Networked improvement communities" https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978864 NICs move practitioners from the margins of system improvement to the center by placing
them alongside researchers, administrators, and policy makers to solve the seemingly
intractable problems of teaching and learning (Bryk et al., 2015).


]]> 2020-06-01 15:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978864 Tracy: Narrative tracygilmer https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978898 There is no straightforward way to build a network narrative. It develops over time through activities members engage in, activities that enable members to tell stories about their own reasons for engaging, about the group’s collective vision for accomplishing its aims, and about the urgency of the work.]]> 2020-06-01 15:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978898 Greg: Shared Narrative https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978955 At local NWP sites, members share stories with each other, with new members, and with nonmembers about who they are and what they do as part of the NWP. It is common for NWP members to tell and retell the narrative of how the NWP came to be and how they each belong in that history. Members also tell stories of their personal transformation as writers, educators, and humans, often highlighting specific transformational moments. They also tell stories of how their personal transformation and the changes they implemented as a result affected the children that they teach.]]> 2020-06-01 15:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604978955 Brooke Ann: "Networked Improvement Communities" brooke_mcwillia https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604979766 In a NIC, traditional patterns of authority, power, and structures of
schooling are disrupted to create spaces where diverse stakeholders solve shared
problems. Because the practitioners themselves determine what high-quality practice looks
like, NICs offer an opportunity for a collective re-professionalization of teaching.

]]> 2020-06-01 15:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604979766 It's scientific... https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604981085 2020-06-01 15:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604981085 Collective Identity (Sherry Kinkopf) https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604982876  Over the years, members of NWP, regardless of their subject area or grade, have come to hold a collective identity as teachers of writing; they maintain an intellectual commitment against assigning the teaching of writing to any one subject area or grade. ]]> 2020-06-01 15:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604982876 Networked Improvement Communities (Dylan) https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985065 2020-06-01 15:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985065 Collective Identity (Hannah) https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985386 To foster norms consistent with a learning community, network members adopt a collective identity as a group that accepts responsibility for improvement. That is, members begin to see their engagement in network activities as both contributing to the collective and benefiting themselves. Given the often-siloed nature of teachers’ work, this may require teachers to undergo some identity and motivational shifts (such as from I to we). ]]> 2020-06-01 15:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985386 Catherine: "Collective Identity" https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985794  "In their joint work, network members write, share writing and their approach to writing, share stories of how they teach writing, and wrestle as a community to collectively own knowledge together."]]> 2020-06-01 15:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604985794 Fostering Vital Norms and Identities, the NWP (Angela) https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604990348
Because the culture in which improvement work happens is an important factor in a
group’s success, NICs work to foster norms and identities that are consistent with those of
scientific professional learning communities and that keep teachers at the center of
improvement. Fostering a network culture is a complex task, and it takes time for members
to develop new visions of their own practice and identities as professionals and co-owners
of an improvement community. 


]]> 2020-06-01 15:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604990348 Lori: "Networked Improvement Communities" https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604991835 To work together, members of a NIC must deliberately structure roles and relationships
(e.g., building relational trust) and foster vital norms and identities (e.g., cultivating
collective identity). 
]]> 2020-06-01 15:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/604991835 Sherrill-Network Improvement Communitites https://padlet.com/robinvatwood/psfid9tokqcub09o/wish/605006501
NICs move practitioners from the margins of system improvement to the center by placing
them alongside researchers, administrators, and policy makers to solve the seemingly
intractable problems of teaching and learning (Bryk et al., 2015). A thriving NIC is a
scientific-professional learning community, composed of professionals who form
a learning community working to come to a greater understanding of how to improve.


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