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Supporting Your Staff During Distance Teaching: Building a Virtual Community of Practice
Presented by Sonja Hollins-Alexander
[Recorded]
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Duration: 60 minutes
Teachers are facing unprecedented challenges as schools close and learning shifts to online environments. During this time of intense upheaval and isolation, it is critical that school and district leaders provide teachers with ongoing opportunities to rapidly re-establish connections with their peers so that they can collectively approach these challenges. Join Sonja Hollins-Alexander, Director of Professional Learning at Corwin and author of "Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities", as she shares practical strategies of how to combine well-designed online professional learning with the energy of peer-to-peer collaboration. Discover how to create a community of professional learning through virtual options in this exclusive webinar.
Participant outcomes:
- Design a virtual professional learning community in a distance learning environment through the author's learner-learner model
- Gain protocols for promoting collaboration and collegial inquiry in a virtual community
- Understand best practices for facilitating virtual communities of practice