Self-Paced Guide
ReImagine 2.0 Modules 1-8
Welcome
How to use this self-paced guide
Just like the Modules in ReImagine 1.0, Modules 1 through 8 for ReImagine 2.0 are organized around essential distance learning topics. Each module invites choice and personalization. These self-paced, independent experiences are designed with the hope that you will tailor your online experience to your individual teaching needs, grade levels, content areas, and interests. You are not expected to read every resource and participate in every activity within each module. Pick and choose what you need. Each online module corresponds to an in-person Zoom meeting with your cohort facilitator.
This is a participant driven experience. You know your students' needs. As you make your way through this professional learning opportunity, keep considering how you may adapt and apply tools, ideas, and practices to your own distance learning classrooms. What do you need? What's working for you? How can you tailor this experience to support you?
The modules and Zoom meetings are designed to model structures and practices that you can transfer back to your student experiences. Please freely borrow and share what might work for you and your students!
Click the module titles below to learn more about how to plan your professional learning for each session, setting aside time for both the Zoom meeting and the self-directed online module experience.
Navigation
Organization and functions to know
Take a few minutes to preview each new module page before beginning, so you may make choices on which readings and activities best align to your interest and practice. Freely return back to modules at any time and move ahead to modules you want to explore early.
Each module is sequential. The pages run top to bottom and are in a numerical order. 1) Get Oriented 2) Read and Review 3) Reflect 4) Practice 5) Dive Deeper 6) Connect on Slack and 7) Review. All modules use similar features and layouts to help with navigation.
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Module Overviews
Module 1 Creating Your Learning System
No matter where students are learning you want to keep a pulse on both student well-being and student growth. Distance learning requires that we are even more intentional about our choices as educators.
Module 1 provides insights on why feedback matters, ideas for intentionally designing feedback opportunities, and strategies for checking in on student wellness. We will consider:
How am I offering and using feedback?
How are my students experiencing peer-to-peer feedback?
Where am I building in opportunities to absorb and apply feedback?
How do I keep the pulse on well being?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 2 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 1 through 8 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 2 Creating Pathways for Learning (Slides / PPT)
No matter where students are learning you want to keep a pulse on both student well-being and student growth. Distance learning requires that we are even more intentional about our choices as educators.
Module 2 provides insights on why feedback matters, ideas for intentionally designing feedback opportunities, and strategies for checking in on student wellness. We will consider:
How am I offering and using feedback?
How are my students experiencing peer-to-peer feedback?
Where am I building in opportunities to absorb and apply feedback?
How do I keep the pulse on well being?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 2 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 1 through 8 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 3 Creating Pathways for Learning (Sites, Sway)
No matter where students are learning you want to keep a pulse on both student well-being and student growth. Distance learning requires that we are even more intentional about our choices as educators.
Module 3 provides insights on why feedback matters, ideas for intentionally designing feedback opportunities, and strategies for checking in on student wellness. We will consider:
How am I offering and using feedback?
How are my students experiencing peer-to-peer feedback?
Where am I building in opportunities to absorb and apply feedback?
How do I keep the pulse on well being?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 4 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 1 through 8 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 4 The Power of Wayfinding
No matter where students are learning you want to keep a pulse on both student well-being and student growth. Distance learning requires that we are even more intentional about our choices as educators.
Module 4 provides insights on why feedback matters, ideas for intentionally designing feedback opportunities, and strategies for checking in on student wellness. We will consider:
How am I offering and using feedback?
How are my students experiencing peer-to-peer feedback?
Where am I building in opportunities to absorb and apply feedback?
How do I keep the pulse on well being?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 4 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 1 through 8 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 5 Teaching through Inquiry Cycles
No matter where students are learning you want to keep a pulse on both student well-being and student growth. Distance learning requires that we are even more intentional about our choices as educators. Module 5 provides insights on why feedback matters, ideas for intentionally designing feedback opportunities, and strategies for checking in on student wellness. We will consider:
How am I offering and using feedback?
How are my students experiencing peer-to-peer feedback?
Where am I building in opportunities to absorb and apply feedback?
How do I keep the pulse on well being?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 5 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 1 through 8 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 6 Assessing the Process of Learning
Despite the hurdles of different spaces and places students can collaborate, connect, and communicate in meaningful ways in your distance learning classrooms. They can leverage their voices and make thoughtful choices to help drive their own learning forward. Module 6 explores the possibilities of collaboration and student agency in distance learning. We will consider:
How do we create student driven learning opportunities and foster agency?
How do students maintain connections and relationships?
How can students meaningfully collaborate?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module.
You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 6 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 6 through 9 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 7 Setting Up Your Gradebook for Mastery Learning
Your students can still show what they know even when learning at home. Effective assessments are possible, and Module 7 examines how we may design assessments that encourage all students to demonstrate growth and plan for future learning. We will consider:
How can students demonstrate their learning when we are not all in the same room together?
What are options for formative and summative assessments?
What might project based learning and place based learning look like at home?
How can we effectively assess learning?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module. You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 7 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 6 through 9 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Module 8 Reflection & Preparation for a New Year
Each of our students are unique in what they need as learners and people. Even though we are not seeing our students in the same physical space every day, we can create learning experiences that support student wellness and equitable practices. Module 8 explores possibilities in social-emotional learning (SEL) and student-centered distance learning classrooms. We will consider:
How can we design for equity?
What are more strategies for ensuring student wellness and incorporating SEL?
How do we support all learners when we are in different spaces and places?
You are encouraged to customize your experience in every module.
You have choice in how you explore the resources, engage in the activities, and spend your time. However, we encourage you to dive into Module 8 PRIOR to your cohort's Zoom meeting. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes exploring the page. Your Zoom opportunities in Modules 6 through 9 are office hours where your facilitator will go deeper into module topics, structure opportunities to connect with others on the work you’re doing, and provide time for Q & A. Previewing the modules prior to those Zooms and beginning the recommended readings, viewings, and activities will help you maximize your time.
Slack
Community
Your Slack community is a participant curated and generated space where you may share questions, offer ideas, contribute resources, and respond to others. Please leverage the hive-mind potential of that space. Extend the learning of your cohort with articles, activities, and suggestions that support your distance learning journey. The Slack icon will link you (in a new tab) to your specific cohort group. Conversations are saved and can be referenced to at any time. Please be considerate of your on-line etiquette.
Each module has its own "channel" to allow you to share contributions and questions aligned by topic. Watch for the Slack icon to know when and where community collaboration is recommended.
Copyright Notice
This content was created by and is owned by Jeff Utecht Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. It was created for the registered participants of the ReImagine Wa Ed professional development program. Any use of this material outside of the intended audience is strictly forbidden.