Our interactive workshop offers participants the opportunity to become creative, pedagogical problem-solvers. Each participant will take a quick goal-setting survey to determine one or more problems of practice to address in the workshop. Survey results will enable each participant to build a personalized playlist and stations will support real-time personalized coaching in the areas of culture, teacher capacity, learning, and tools. Throughout the experience, participants will build an understanding of different tools, instructional methods, and elements of positive learning environments. We will offer a range of options from entry-level to a more advanced practitioner level. Participants will learn about how this type of personalized professional learning has positively impacted one district in Maryland and leave the workshops with artifacts they can use for immediate implementation in their classrooms.
Eric Haines serves as the Project Manager for Personalized Learning in Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) in Frederick, MD. He is responsible for promoting personalized learning to ensure high quality instruction in FCPS classrooms and help close the achievement gap. He has been integral in developing a systemic plan with three distinct prongs of action: developing teacher leaders through the Vanguard Teacher Program, the evaluation of the FCPS Technology Stack, and building capacity in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Innovation departments as well as other central office teams so that curriculum resources and professional learning activities support personalized learning.
Co-Founder, Author, Speaker Jason Green is the bestselling co-author of Blended Learning in Action and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LINC (Learning Innovation Catalyst). Inspired by his youth development and nonprofit work as a student at Morehouse College, Jason Green has dedicated his career to creating positive change in education. Jason has helped hundreds of schools and districts reimagine and implement 21st century teaching and learning. Through an ongoing research partnership with Stanford University Graduate School of Education’s Dr. Arnetha Ball, Jason develops and implements professional learning experiences designed to help educators build their mindset and practice of 21C, student-centered learning. Jason holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania, and has spoken at leading universities and conferences around the world. Connect with Jason on Twitter @jasontoddgreen.