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<h3><span style="color: #008080;"> <strong>A note for taking this course during the COVID-19 pandemic</strong></span></h3>
<p>In Units 4 and 5, you will embark on an action project to use what you’ve learned in this course to spark sharing a conversation with colleagues. The action project ends with learners sharing an activity from the course. If you’d like to complete the sharing with colleagues part virtually, we have some suggestions:</p>
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<li>Choose one or two people to share with, rather than a larger group of colleagues.</li>
<li>Ask colleagues to do the activity individually, then schedule a phone call or video conference to discuss it. Or ask them to share their thoughts over email.</li>
<li>Schedule a video conference session to facilitate the activity with colleagues. </li>
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<p>Justin explains the action project you will complete in Units 4 and 5, where you will identify a mindset that is out of balance in your context, think about assets that could be helpful in rebalancing that mindset, and share your learning from the course with colleagues. </p>
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<p>Throughout this course you have been studying educator mindsets and how they can become unbalanced in schools. In this activity, you are going to identify a problem of practice related to a mindset that seems out of balance in your context. <strong>A problem of practice is a challenge or issue that requires a solution, is something you care deeply about and are especially excited to work on.</strong> (To read more about problems of practice, see <a href="https://www.renniecenter.org/blog/change-management-identifying-problem-practice" target="_blank">this blog post</a> from the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy.)</p>
<p>Then you are going to consider how you might understand the dynamics of that mindset in your context better, and how you might start work to rebalance it. </p>
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<li>Think back to the four mindsets we’ve learned about in this course: Equity versus Equality, Asset versus Deficit, Aware versus Avoidant, and Context-Centered versus Context-Neutral. Think about all the ways you've seen the mindsets in action throughout the course. Then, jot down some notes about how you’ve seen the mindsets in action in your context, either in balanced or unbalanced ways. Consider any of the following:</li>
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<li>School-wide norms, expectations, and policies</li>
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<p>2. In these spaces, is there a particular example where the mindset seems out of balance? How is that impacting students? Add these examples to your notes.</p>
<p>3. From your notes, choose a problem of practice that focuses on an out-of-balance mindset in your context. It should be something that you care about and would be excited to work on rebalancing with your colleagues.</p>
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