Reflective Summary-own district sharing

I feel like I have been able to take a lot of things back to my district this semester.  In just the past few months, I’ve gotten a lot of staff more on-board with Google Docs.  Some of this occurred during my action research of staff collaboration online, but some of my closest co-workers are also experimenting with it and suggesting it for a safe place to store the most updated version of some shared files.  I’m very proud to have led them down this path.  They count on me as the “master”, but I have a lot to learn yet myself.    

I have verbally shared the story Ubuntu with a few of my trusting peers and also my personality typology.  They were not surprised to hear that I was a performer, especially when they found out the characteristics of a performer.  They were very supportive of me when I explained how I was suppose to reflect on letting go and set realistic goals on what really needed to be done.  Even though it is a huge struggle for me to let go, they are very encouraging when I am overwhelmed by everything at school.

I have also retold various topics of discussion that our community has had online.  I had one co-worker that was especially interested to know what my learning community said about early and delayed entrance.  I printed the entire discussion thread and together we were surprised to see what other districts were facing as unique challenges on this topic.        

Many of my co-workers have also been very receptive to my action research project on staff collaboration through technology.  Through staff collaboration and my action research I was able to share a google doc of web resources similar to the “Technology Tools” one we made in our learning community.  It’s funny to see how some peers post right to the document and others respond to me and want me to continue to share.    

One of my favorite assignments through the learning community was the one that had us go onto interventioncentral.org.  I shared that web resource with my peers, and although I don’t know how many of them actually use that resource, I was excited to share the results from the first intervention I did with one of my students.  Just today I was able to report the data I collected to a cooperating agency that has my same student in their program.  

Lastly, I volunteered to be on the school improvement committee this year for the entire elementary.  The first thing I mentioned to this group was what other districts are doing for RtI.  Immediately I had some supporters who had heard the same type of information before and yet others who argued its the classroom teacher’s job to come up with and carryout all interventions.  Either way, I was proud to be able to report back from my learning community to a larger group than just my building team.  I’ve reached out of my comfort zone and feel like a real leader in my school.