What Does It Take to Build on Educators’ Expertise? Exploring Critical Problems of Representation, Relationships, and Scalability

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This session seeks to build a better understanding of what it takes to articulate the expertise that educators develop in one context and to share it with other educators. To achieve that objective, this working group roundtable brings together three different groups who are working on different aspects of three related challenges:
● Challenges of representation – How can we represent educators’ practice and expertise in ways that enable their peers to build on/adapt them in other contexts?
● Challenges of connection – How can we find and connect educators who can benefit from one another’s expertise?
● Challenges of scale – How can we develop local capabilities so that educators can apply what they are learning from others in their own contexts?

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

Chair

• Thomas C. Hatch, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Representation and the Proliferation of Resources: Finding a Balance Between Generality and Specificity - Thomas C. Hatch, Teachers College, Columbia University; Bianca Licata, San Francisco State University; Angel Zheng, New Visions for Public Schools

• Disrupting and Leveraging: Strategic Mapping of Social and Content Networks - Mimi Lockton, University of California - San Diego; Alan J. Daly, University of California - San Diego; Anita Caduff, University of Michigan; Martin Rehm, University of Southern Denmark

• Scaling Capabilities for Collaborative, Continuous Improvement: Exploring Possibilities for Open Access Professional Learning - Donald J. Peurach, University of Michigan