VC Regional Leads

Network Provincial Fall

Meeting
Meeting Overview
 VCRLN Mandate
• First 2 years – early adopters,
promotion
• New 2 year extension – early
majority & late majority

Learn
 VCRLN Cascade Model of PD
• Alberta Education
sought an
innovative mode of
teacher professional
development
• Follows 2Learn.ca’s
“cascade model”
• Using new
opportunities
Learn
afforded by VC
1. Continue supporting:
- Teacher professional learning
opportunities
- VC events
- Regional & inter-regional cyberbridges
- Cyberproject development

2. New
Directions:
Learn
Regional Budgets

Learn
Cyberprojects
(Class-to-class
Collaboration)

Learn
Discussion
Starters

Learn
Presentation – Jennifer
Harder

Learn
 Essential Question:
How will we support
jurisdictions within our PD
region?

Plan
Factors to
Consider

Plan
Ways to Support Teacher
Learning

Plan
 Regional PD Support Model
• For your region, decide:
– Who will do
– What
– For Whom
• Represent this PD support model
with specifics on paper
• Note – more than one RL can be
involved in a particular activity if Plan
desired
 2Learn2Gether
• For both 2Learn.ca and VCRLN
• Social networking/community
website
• Events (creation/registration),
groups, classifieds, forums, video,
blogs
• Your task – explore, critique, suggest,
“blue-sky” Explore
 Build &
Good Ideas Share