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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">5.3.1 Unit 5 Assignment: Inviting Colleagues to Learn Together</h2>
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<h4><span style="color: #008080;"> <strong>A note for doing this assignment during the COVID-19 pandemic</strong></span></h4>
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For those of you who are experiencing social distancing, you may choose to wait until you are back in a building with colleagues to try an activity together. However, we’d encourage you to consider how you might share it now, while the material is still fresh in your mind. Here are some suggestions around sharing an activity virtually: <br />
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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.</li>
<li>Schedule a video conference session to facilitate the activity with colleagues.</li>
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<p>In Unit 4, you chose a problem of practice around a mindset that was out of balance at your school or organization, and imagined a shift you’d like to see. Making the shifts you imagined and rebalancing mindsets takes time; it will be a long term project. But there are action steps you can take now to start that process. One powerful step is sharing some of your learning about the mindset you selected with your colleagues. </p>
<p><em>Although we understand that school schedules can be unpredictable, we hope that you’ll get a chance to actually try out this sharing before the end of the course, and share your experience of how it went!</em></p>
<h4 style="background-color: #133847; font-size: 20px; color: #256a97; height: 35px; text-indent: 10px; padding-top: 10px; border-radius: 3px;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">INSTRUCTIONS</span></h4>
<p><strong>Create a plan to share your activity</strong>. Consider the following aspects and jot down some notes about each one: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>1. Consider your goals</strong>. When you share this activity with colleagues, what do you hope to achieve - with your colleagues and in your context? If you were to succeed in your goals for this activity beyond your wildest dreams, what might that look like? How might this activity fit in with existing conversations, aspirations, strengths or challenges at your school or organization? What questions or concerns do you have about the activity?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>2. Consider your audience</strong>. What group of colleagues might be interested in having this type of conversation? Who might benefit from it? Keep in mind that it’s OK to start small and then work up to sharing with a larger audience.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">a. This is a great opportunity to reach out to people already working on equity in your context (examples might be educators on a diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, or those working with English language learners or students with Individualized Education Plans, who often address equity issues). This is also a great opportunity to introduce people to equity and the work you’ve been doing in the course. </p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-left: 60px;">b. Consider what, if any, concerns you have about doing the activity with colleagues? How might you alleviate these concerns, or prepare to address them if they do occur? </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>3. Choose an activity from the course you’ve completed and that you think would help you and your colleagues talk about and start to rebalance this mindset</strong>. Consider your problem of practice and the mindset that you think is out of balance in your context. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">a. We encourage you to try out practice spaces with colleagues. Here are the practice spaces in the course; click the link to access a facilitator’s guide for each.</p>
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<li><em><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C31AVw_3k_k8dznETexLzpRSQb7j3XPNDUBdIdLjAgc/edit#" target="_blank">Jeremy's Journal Facilitator's Guide</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SBU-kG5SakeaFTkBDz_8IeYDCBk4a2jqTgjTO6b-Nvg/edit#" target="_blank">Coach Wright Facilitator's Guide</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cYZAOnYq3tnzFf4Y_VtaxVTFVGQ_eIl61RPyHubAw8Q/edit" target="_blank">Roster Justice Facilitator's Guide</a></em></li>
<li><em><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iI9AUD_Pv2o9TYU2qzK5qyxNp29KxLrs7rS-IVGfpM0/edit" target="_blank">Layers Facilitator's Guide </a></span></em></li>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;">b. There are also lots of activities from the course that you could modify and share with colleagues. For example, you could have folks do a <strong><a href="https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+0.503x+T2020/courseware/935ee1f0c1764eb1abe0d27dc6568f49/82dcbb4c86b247979f48dc6b869f4a62/2?activate_block_id=block-v1%3AMITx%2B0.503x%2BT2020%2Btype%40vertical%2Bblock%402feb690c41ad45809d62274488c1442d" target="_blank">Roster Audit</a></strong><em> </em>or <strong><a href="https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+0.503x+T2020/courseware/e268929b9741442aa60e19f62a509284/aa0503bc2cbe40a78b70497b89ed415f/2?activate_block_id=block-v1%3AMITx%2B0.503x%2BT2020%2Btype%40vertical%2Bblock%405ae10898301e44dfbc735687d47ca9f0" target="_blank">Left-Hand Column Case</a></strong> activity, or consider the needs of a focal student. You could also share and discuss a course video, or material from the Readings and Resources section of the course. <strong><a href="https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/assets/courseware/v1/c948d979fca8d6cf0e982b77560304b7/asset-v1:MITx+0.503x+T2020+type@asset+block/Learning_Circle_Guide_for_Becoming_a_More_Equitable_Educator__Mindsets_and_Practices.pdf" target="_blank">The Learning Circle Guide</a> offers interactive activity suggestions and some discussion questions for videos, assignments and readings.</strong> <span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span color="#333333" style="color: #333333;"><strong>4. Logistics</strong>. Consider when and where you will do the activity. How will you invite colleagues? What supporting materials will you want to have on hand (your own work on the activity, laptops, projector, facilitator’s guides for practice spaces, etc.)? </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em><span color="#333333" style="color: #333333;">Tip: If you’ve shared work from the course with your students, or made shifts in your own practice, sharing quotes, reactions or work products from students can help educators connect emotionally with this work. </span></em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span color="#333333" style="color: #333333;"><strong>5. </strong><strong>Ask a friend or colleague to review your plan and provide feedback.</strong> Share any questions you have about the share with them, ask for feedback and advice, or perhaps ask them to do a practice run with you. </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span color="#333333" style="color: #333333;"><strong>6. Share the course activity with a group of colleagues</strong>. After you’re finished, try to jot down some notes to yourself about how it went. </span></p>
<h4 style="background-color: #133847; font-size: 20px; color: #256a97; height: 35px; text-indent: 10px; padding-top: 10px; border-radius: 3px;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">FOR THE DELIVERABLE</span></h4>
<p>Share the following components in your journal or with your trusted colleagues: </p>
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<li>Briefly describe your context and role (for example, you might describe location, demographics, size, etc.). </li>
<li> Share your problem of practice, which mindset you hope to see more of in your context, and which activity you chose to share.</li>
<li>Write about your goals for the activity. How does this fit into shared goals or challenges in your context? </li>
<li>Who was your chosen audience, and what, if any, questions or concerns did you have related to doing the activity? How did you prepare to address these concerns? </li>
<li>If you were able to complete the activity with colleagues, reflect on your experience in a short paragraph (or video or other equivalent format) that addresses the following: </li>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;">a. Describe what you ended up doing with your colleagues, and some overall thoughts on how it went.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">b. What, if anything, surprised you about doing this activity with colleagues? What were the easiest and hardest parts?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">c. Looking back at your goals and hopes, how successful were you in reaching your goals? What might you do differently next time? </p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">d. What comes next? How else can you move forward in rebalancing mindsets, both in terms of your problem of practice but also more widely in your context? </p>
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<p>Provide feedback to your peers, if possible. </p>
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<li>Do you notice any similarities or differences between your context and/or problem of practice and theirs? If you’ve faced similar challenges, how have you addressed them? </li>
<li>What questions do you have about their plan or experience? </li>
<li>Can you offer any suggestions about how to help engage their audience in addressing their problem of practice? </li>
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