The Balance Series Returns!
NEW for 2021: Virtual Community Builder on Formative Assessment
Support your professional learning in Mathematics with Flipping the Focus’ "Balance" chats, webinars, and workshops! Join this interactive and online experience here.
What are Instructional Leaders saying about Flipped PL?
What a pleasure navigating this professional learning website (Flipped PL) created by Ontario educator, Christopher Stewart. If you haven’t fully explored this amazing site, it is worth spending time immersing yourself in all that is there.
Easy to navigate, you will quickly discover Chris offers quality learning to educators, leaders and learners at a variety of levels of experience. The abundance of ways to engage in the learning invites the user to “create your own adventure”, providing frictionless access to just in time, customizable learning.
The main page welcome videos provide windows into Chris' warm coaching and mentoring style. He shares free access to an array of quality leadership for learning resources, provides multiple ways to collaborate, creates communities of practice, and offers an online planning and booking feature to further engage with Chris for your individual or group’s professional learning needs. He personalizes the experience and clearly delivers on quality engagement because of his finely-tuned facilitation skills and current knowledge of how to effectively leverage educational change and continuous improvement.
Chris is knowledgeable and passionate about leadership for learning and teaching and learning through inquiry. He skillfully delivers on his promise of “collaborative exploration of high-yield, pedagogical strategies, that will further engage students to deepen their learning and fellow educators to continuously grow their practice”.
This is an excellent site, very informative-- a great resource that will certainly fuel your quest for “the difference that makes the difference” in your individual and collective educational journeys! (Karen Steffensen, Jan 24/20 | @kstef2)
Easy to navigate, you will quickly discover Chris offers quality learning to educators, leaders and learners at a variety of levels of experience. The abundance of ways to engage in the learning invites the user to “create your own adventure”, providing frictionless access to just in time, customizable learning.
The main page welcome videos provide windows into Chris' warm coaching and mentoring style. He shares free access to an array of quality leadership for learning resources, provides multiple ways to collaborate, creates communities of practice, and offers an online planning and booking feature to further engage with Chris for your individual or group’s professional learning needs. He personalizes the experience and clearly delivers on quality engagement because of his finely-tuned facilitation skills and current knowledge of how to effectively leverage educational change and continuous improvement.
Chris is knowledgeable and passionate about leadership for learning and teaching and learning through inquiry. He skillfully delivers on his promise of “collaborative exploration of high-yield, pedagogical strategies, that will further engage students to deepen their learning and fellow educators to continuously grow their practice”.
This is an excellent site, very informative-- a great resource that will certainly fuel your quest for “the difference that makes the difference” in your individual and collective educational journeys! (Karen Steffensen, Jan 24/20 | @kstef2)
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What are Teachers saying about Flipped PL?
-Flipped learning allows students to take ownership & leadership. Learning is a co-space of thinking, co-creating success criteria, building knowledge & conversations for reaching the goals (Interview, hosted by Rola Tibshirani, on "The Missing Link", Feb 2/19).
-You ensure that everyone at the table has a voice...that they are heard. The facilitation was inspiring, we connected as a team, and met our goals (Executive Member, Ottawa Zone for Mathematics Education, Feb 9/19). -The professional learning I received was matched to my needs, provided just-in-time, and complemented how I like to learn (Educator, Program Leader). -You have really helped me stretch and think about teaching in new ways (Educator, School Learning Team). -Having these tools, along with coaching, will be a perfect support for teacher learning (Learning Resource Teacher). -Great learning content ... we like the format of this learning opportunity (Educator Group). -We're growing ideas with everyone's participation (System Teacher). What are School & System Administrators saying about Flipped PL?
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-Due to the depth of knowledge made available, open-mindedness, and interpretive listening, our collaboration with Flipped PL led to making ideas better (School Administrator, Upper Canada DSB, May 2018).
-How can I go about flipping some of the collaborative inquiry initiatives in my school? Staff meetings? (School Administrator)
-I like how you apply your own curiousity and learning to various divisions and subject areas (System Administrator).
-The value of having ... time with a colleague to view and discuss the on-line training was beneficial. We liked the ability to pause when we felt it necessary and the ability to set our own time limits ... for discussion time (School Learning Team, Upper Canada DSB).
