Insuring that BAWP’s PD programs are teacher driven and informed by classroom practice is one of our top priorities. BAWPs Professional Collaboration Network (PCN) will help support this effort. Begun during 2013-14 and 2014 – 2015 school years the PCN provided a supportive place for a number of TCs to try out and get feedback on both new and previously developed workshops. These were important sessions as many of the workshops conducted in PCN sessions have already been successfully taken to teachers in such places as Solano County, Napa Unified, Antioch Unified, Vallejo Unified, and San Francisco.
For long-time consultants and presenters we want the PCN to be a place for you to try out a new presentation, or refine one you’ve already developed. For TC’s who have not yet had a chance to present we want to the PCN to be an opportunity for you to further develop ideas and presentations you worked with at summer institutes. For all of us, the collegial support at the center of the PCN is intended to help us work confidently with colleagues as we support their and our own continued growth as teachers of writing and teachers of content, such as history and science.
To support this work each PCN presenter will get coaching before the workshop, feedback on the workshop from colleagues attending the session, and then additional time to debrief and refine the workshop. Our hope is that the PCN becomes a key component of how BAWP supports and expands the number of TCs successfully conducting strong and thoughtful workshops as we work to meet the PD requests coming in from across the Bay Areas.
We hope you will consider this invitation to join us at the monthly PNC meetings.
Participating TCs to think about and consider their own practice as they learn from their colleague’s workshops.