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Teacher Isolation in the Post-Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Teacher Networks Today
Wed, April 8, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 501ASession Type: Working Group Roundtable
Abstract
Teacher networks provide informational, instrumental, and emotional support, yet many educators still experience professional isolation and struggle to find or sustain such communities. This working-group roundtable convenes scholars of teacher networks to compare findings and surface cross-cutting insights about how networks form, deepen, and endure. Focusing on online, offline, and blended spaces, we will examine opportunities and challenges related to critical mass, leadership, infrastructure, platform instability, and anti-democratic pressures. The session features brief lightning presentations, guided dialogue, and audience participation to synthesize lessons across cases and contexts. Outcomes include shared design principles and a forward-looking agenda for research and practice aimed at developing resilient teacher networks.
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How Elon Musk contributed to the demise of the #OakEd network - Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Elon University
Into the Shadows, Out of the Streets: Teacher Activist Networks and the Public Square in the Post-Digital, Post-COVID Era - Kira J. Baker-Doyle, University of Illinois at Chicago
Technology-Mediated Professional Learning is Associated with Evolving Rural Science Teacher Networks - Rebecca Sansom, Texas A&M University; Syahrul Amin, Texas A&M University
TEFL in Rural Schools of Uruguay: Designing a Network of Practice to Enhance Language Teaching - Valentina Alpuín, University of Illinois at Chicago; Vanessa Z Mari, Nevada State College
Design Tensions and Opportunities for Building a Sustainable Professional Learning Network - Chulin Chen, University of Tennessee; Joshua Rosenberg, University of Tennessee; Amy Maples, University of Tennessee; Lynn L. Hodge, University of Tennessee