Building Blended Learning Teacher Leaders in Your District

Building Blended Learning Teacher Leaders in Your District Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Julie MayhewDirector of Curriculum,

Instruction, and AssessmentBurrillville Public Schools, RI

@MrsMayhew

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Rebecca WillnerFuse Fellow and English Teacher

Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, RI@MsWillnerMadeIt

Maeve MurrayProject Manager

Highlander Institute, RI@MaeveFMurray

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Julie Mayhew is the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for Burrillville Public Schools, RI. Trained as an elementary educator, she earned her B.A. from Stonehill College. She was inspired to pursue reading instruction as a specialty after an internship in London, and then earned a master’s degree in reading, language, and learning disabilities from Harvard. Mrs. Mayhew taught for more than 20 years before moving into administration. Her experience includes both private and public schools as well as a rehabilitation hospital. In 2010, Mrs. Mayhew began training through the Principal Residency Network, and then became principal of the Austin T. Levy elementary school in Burrillville before taking on her district-level role.

Maeve Murray is the project manager overseeing the Fuse RI Fellowship at Highlander Institute. Before starting at the Institute, Maeve was a founding high school math and special education teacher at Village Green Virtual Charter School in downtown Providence, RI. She has also previously worked as an education policy fellow for the Rhode Island Governor’s Office, and taught English as a second language and American literature through the Fulbright Bulgaria program. She lives in Providence, RI.

Rebecca Willner is an ELA teacher at Beacon Charter High School for the Arts in Woonsocket, RI. She originally came to Rhode Island to study Greek and Latin at Brown University, but she inevitably turned towards teaching, completing the MAT program also at Brown. She believes in equality, access, and choice for all students, and she can’t wait to see all the amazing pockets of blended learning happening throughout Rhode Island.

Maeve Murray

Project Manager

@maevefmurray

Julie Mayhew

Fuse District

Point Person

Rebecca Willner

Fuse Fellow

@mswillnermadeit

bit.ly/426fuseri

Goals

• Introduce you to Highlander Institute

• Gain a better understanding of the Fuse RI

Fellowship

• Discuss Burrillville School District’s journey

with Fuse RI & the teacher leader

community they’ve created

Education Non-Profit in Rhode Island

Innovative education practices

as a catalyst for social change

Innovation Implementation Research

Blended Learning

We Believe

Personalized Learning Progression

What is Fuse RI?

Launched by Highlander Institute in 2014, Fuse

RI promotes blended learning by working with

educators across the state.

Fuse RI Fellows, who are all RI educators,

collaborate with participating districts to

implement the best blended & personalized

learning practices based on each specific

district’s needs and goals.

Scaling Blended Learning

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Scaling Blended Learning

By the Numbers

24 12 1

60 25 418 8

RI FELLOWS RI DISTRICTS FUNDERS

SYRACUSE

FELLOWS

SYRACUSE

SCHOOLS

2014-2015

2016-2017

Who are Fuse Fellows?

Educators who...

Have a Passion for

Blended &

Personalized

Learning

Understand

Classroom Design

& Best Practice

Enjoy People and

Love Supporting

Teachers and

Admins

Are Time

Management

Ninjas who Think

Outside the Box

Learn more on

Twitter!

#FuseRI

Fellowship Details

Who?

• K-12 educators who work in RI (district, charter, and private

schools)

Time Commitment

• Fellowship is built on 100 hours of work per year for 2 full

school years, with a 2-day Bootcamp each summer

• Each Fellow commits to being out of their home district to

spend 5 full days in their Fuse Partner District each year

Compensation

• $1,500 stipend per year

• $2,000 flex spending account (projects, resources,

conferences, etc.)

Highlander Institute’s

Development Framework

Burrillville Vision

The vision of the Burrillville School Department

is to create a more personalized environment

that fosters independent and self-directed

learners through differentiated, purposeful

instruction. By leveraging collaboration and a

variety of opportunities to demonstrate mastery,

students will take risks as their learning extends

beyond the classroom.

PLAN

Burrillville Look Fors

• Formative data is used to

design/modify instruction so

students receive the content/delivery

they need to be successful

• The teacher offers choice among

multiple means for students to

demonstrate mastery

• Students are actively discussing,

collaborating, creating, or otherwise

engaging with the content for the

majority of the class period

PLAN

Year 1 Activities

• Vision Meeting

• Look Fors Meeting

• Early Adopter Selection

• Site Visits

• Goal-Setting

Burrillville Early Adopters

Austin T. Levy Primary

1st Grade Team

Amanda Martins

Keith Tucker

Alison Avila

Maureen Byrne

Steere Farm

Elementary

Kyle Wilson - 4th grade

Monica Tomson - 5th

grade

Burrillville Middle

School

Laura Pichie - ELA

Linda Belanger - Social

Studies

Burrillville High School

Kristi Craig - Math

Ashley Crenca - Math

Cathy Forrest - Math

Kevin Cash - Social

Studies

W.L. Callahan

Elementary

Brenda Costa - 2nd

Grade

Diane Lebrun -

Library/Media

PILOT

Qualities of a Teacher Leader

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PILOT

Growth Mindset is Key PILOT

Photo courtesy of iNACOL Blended Learning

Teacher Competency Framework

Year 2 Summary

• Kick-off meeting in August 2016 to review

& schedule coaching dates

• Embedded Coaching & Pineapple

Classrooms

• Intra-visitation between lighthouse

classroom teachers

• Elementary teachers visited high school

classrooms & vice versa

Classroom Visits in Action REVIEW

Classroom Visits in Action REVIEW

Reflection & Next Steps

• Have identified 5 local lighthouse

classrooms in Burrillville

• Excitement & buy-in around blended

learning is growing district-wide

• BSD is looking into leveraging OER (Open

Education Resources) solutions to support

curriculum

REVIEW

Cohort 4 Application Now Open

Are you a Rhode Island educator passionate

about blended learning?

Consider applying for Cohort 4 of Fuse RI

today! Deadline is 5/5/17.

bit.ly/fuseriapply

Highlander Institute Resources

fuseri.highlanderinstitute.org

Thank you!

Question & Answer Session

Julie MayhewDirector of Curriculum,

Instruction, and AssessmentBurrillville Public Schools, RI

@MrsMayhew

Rebecca WillnerFuse Fellow and English Teacher

Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, RI@MsWillnerMadeIt

Maeve MurrayProject Manager

Highlander Institute, RI@MaeveFMurray

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Julie MayhewDirector of Curriculum,

Instruction, and AssessmentBurrillville Public Schools, RI

Rebecca WillnerFuse Fellow and English Teacher

Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, RI

Maeve MurrayProject Manager

Highlander Institute, RI

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