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Vision:
Building from needs expressed during the IALS conference, this one-and-a-half-day workshop will center on envisioning and creating structures to support teachers as active contributors to school-based research.
Process and Product:
Through discussions, presentations, and working sessions, we will dive into how lab schools can elevate their educators' contributions to educational research.
Specific aims include:
· Helping classroom educators see themselves as holding knowledge and questions that further the field of educational research.
· Elevating school-based inquiry as professional development.
· Sustaining research as a pillar of a laboratory school.
Questions we will explore include:
· How do we create structures that keep this a sustainable element of our schools?
· What supports are needed?
· How can we provide these supports with our limited resources (finances, time, knowledge, space)?
Our goals for participants include the following:
· Defining the next steps for implementation
· Exploring your context-specific purpose as a research site
· Networking and developing community
· Gaining an overview of Improvement Science as a model
Workshop Highlights
Speakers
Katrina
Bartow Jacobs
Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Katrina Bartow Jacobs is an associate professor of practice of Language, Literacy, and Culture within the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading. She is also the Research Coordinator at Falk Laboratory School, a K-8 school affiliated with the School of Education. Her current work focuses on the intersections of practice, theory, and policy; the ways that children take up issues of gender and identity during the reading of texts; and the use of research as a framework for change that centers teachers and students as producers of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Jill Sarada
Director of Falk Laboratory School at the University of Pittsburgh
Jill Sarada is the Director of Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this role, she has served as Interim Director 2021-2022, Assistant Director, 2019 - 2021 Director of Admissions, 2014-2019, and Kindergarten teacher, 1999 - 2016. Currently the President of the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS), Jill actively works to support learning and collaboration among the educators of Lab schools with the broader educational community.
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Agenda
8
30AM
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9
00AM
Registration and Light Breakfast
Katrina Bartow Jacobs•Jill SaradaAttendees will register and have a light breakfast.
9
00AM
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10
00AM
Opening Session
Katrina Bartow Jacobs•Jill SaradaThe Importance of Teacher-Driven Research: What it is and why it matters
10
00AM
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10
15AM
10
15AM
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11
00AM
Presentation
Katrina Bartow Jacobs•Jill SaradaPresentation on Falk Model for Collaborative Continuous Improvement
11
00AM
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12
00PM
Falk Teachers Presentation
Snapshots of Classroom Driven Inquiry (Falk Teacher Presentations)
12
00PM
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1
00PM
LUCH
Lunch will be provided.
1
00PM
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2
30PM
Presentation
Presentation on overview of continuous improvement and teacher research
2
30PM
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2
45PM
2
45PM
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4
00PM
Initial Brainstorming Session
Initial brainstorming: What could collaborative inquiry look like in your context?
8
30AM
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9
00AM
9
00AM
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10
30AM
Brainstorming Session
Brainstorming session: Plan of action for your school
10
30AM
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10
45AM
10
45AM
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11
30AM
Next Steps
Next steps for IALS members as a community
11
30AM
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12
00PM
Registration and Light Breakfast
Attendees will register and have a light breakfast.
Speakers
Katrina Bartow Jacobs
Associate Professor at University of PittsburghDr. Katrina Bartow Jacobs is an associate professor of practice of Language, Literacy, and Culture within the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading. She is also the Research Coordinator at Falk Laboratory School, a K-8 school affiliated with the School of Education. Her current work focuses on the intersections of practice, theory, and policy; the ways that children take up issues of gender and identity during the reading of texts; and the use of research as a framework for change that centers teachers and students as producers of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Jill Sarada
Director of Falk Laboratory School at the University of PittsburghJill Sarada is the Director of Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this role, she has served as Interim Director 2021-2022, Assistant Director, 2019 - 2021 Director of Admissions, 2014-2019, and Kindergarten teacher, 1999 - 2016. Currently the President of the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS), Jill actively works to support learning and collaboration among the educators of Lab schools with the broader educational community.
Opening Session
The Importance of Teacher-Driven Research: What it is and why it matters
Speakers
Katrina Bartow Jacobs
Associate Professor at University of PittsburghDr. Katrina Bartow Jacobs is an associate professor of practice of Language, Literacy, and Culture within the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading. She is also the Research Coordinator at Falk Laboratory School, a K-8 school affiliated with the School of Education. Her current work focuses on the intersections of practice, theory, and policy; the ways that children take up issues of gender and identity during the reading of texts; and the use of research as a framework for change that centers teachers and students as producers of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Jill Sarada
Director of Falk Laboratory School at the University of PittsburghJill Sarada is the Director of Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this role, she has served as Interim Director 2021-2022, Assistant Director, 2019 - 2021 Director of Admissions, 2014-2019, and Kindergarten teacher, 1999 - 2016. Currently the President of the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS), Jill actively works to support learning and collaboration among the educators of Lab schools with the broader educational community.
Presentation
Presentation on Falk Model for Collaborative Continuous Improvement
Speakers
Katrina Bartow Jacobs
Associate Professor at University of PittsburghDr. Katrina Bartow Jacobs is an associate professor of practice of Language, Literacy, and Culture within the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading. She is also the Research Coordinator at Falk Laboratory School, a K-8 school affiliated with the School of Education. Her current work focuses on the intersections of practice, theory, and policy; the ways that children take up issues of gender and identity during the reading of texts; and the use of research as a framework for change that centers teachers and students as producers of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Jill Sarada
Director of Falk Laboratory School at the University of PittsburghJill Sarada is the Director of Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this role, she has served as Interim Director 2021-2022, Assistant Director, 2019 - 2021 Director of Admissions, 2014-2019, and Kindergarten teacher, 1999 - 2016. Currently the President of the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS), Jill actively works to support learning and collaboration among the educators of Lab schools with the broader educational community.
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