动态二人旨在改变K-12教育

特蕾莎·吉布森（Theresa Gibson）和南希·曼格（Nancy Mangum）在路上花费了一半以上的工作时间。

作为副主任Friday Institute’s Professional Learning and Leading Collaborative（PLLC），他们与团队合作，为K-12教育者和管理人员开发有关个性化和数字学习的课程，然后在整个州和国家 /地区旅行。

曼古姆说：“星期五学院的任务是通过创新来改善教育。”“我们通过帮助教师，教学教练和管理人员为学生改变学习机会来实现这一任务。”

Mangum说，经常旅行“令人兴奋而疲惫”，但她和吉布森说他们喜欢自己的工作。实际上，当他们谈论计划在全国范围内产生的影响时，他们的眼睛很明显。

Case in point: the个性化和数字学习的领导G（LPDL）程序。吉布森（Gibson）和曼格姆（Mangum）与他们的团队合作五年前，与学习加速器（支持K-12教育的国家非营利组织）以及北卡罗来纳州校长和助理校长协会合作。

Initially designed to help principals integrate digital learning into their school’s practices, the program has evolved to focus on personalized learning environments.

“We take research best practices and synthesize them to create learning opportunities for principals,” Gibson says. “We also believe in creating community so these principals can continue to support each other long after the program is over.”

On the Road

许多组织接近吉布森（Gibson）和曼格姆（Mangum），因为该计划的消息开始传播，因此他们决定在全国范围内试行它。

他们的第一个伙伴关系之一是与犹他州教育网络。

该组织正在寻找支持该州学校校长的领导能力的支持，因此吉布森和曼古姆（Gibson）和曼格姆（Mangum）定制了该计划以满足需求。

“We’ve had hundreds of Utah school principals go through the program,” says Justin Brooksby, associate director of professional development with the Utah Education Network. “It’s really helped us make progress in Utah schools … and really gave us a start for our entire principal professional development program.”

Alisa Cook, a personalized learning consultant with the Wyoming Department of Education, had a similar experience. She partnered with Gibson and Mangum to offer district leaders professional learning opportunities that will help them become “future-ready” and take their schools to the next level.

“Meeting and working with Nancy and Theresa has been life-altering,” Cook says. “And that is not an exaggeration. They have such a passion for this work, and you can’t help but be excited about it as well when you are around them. They are extremely hard-working, and they are very dedicated to the cause of developing leaders so they can better the schools around them.”

Today, 20 organizations around the country run LPDL. And Gibson and Mangum are constantly connecting people with each other. In a recent example, they brought partners from Tennessee to Colorado to check out a personalized learning program they helped develop there.

Ripple Effect

在家里，他们最大的签名计划之一是北卡罗来纳州数字领导者教练网络.

在过去的五年中，全州学校的600多名教学和技术教练参加了该计划，该计划的重点是吉布森（Gibson）所说：“为K-12教学教练，媒体协调员和技术促进者建立网络，以帮助领导领导者并指导其他教师关于个性化和数字学习。”

吉布森说，这种老师助人教师的模型具有连锁反应，比实际参与该计划的人更受益的人要多得多。

Over the course of a year, participants engage in several sessions across the state focused on growing themselves as instructional coaches. According to informal survey results, participants have overwhelmingly responded that they have changed their current practices because of the program.

“We want to build change agents,” she says, “and help them transform their practices and inspire others to do the same.”

建设能力

“What ultimately drives all of our work are the needs, whether we’re discovering them in our research or because our team spends the majority of our time in the field, interacting with teachers and administrators,” Mangum says.

但他们不呆在one place for too long.

“We have a unique model that allows us to be agile and responsive,” Gibson says. “It’s not our model to build something and stay there running the same program for 10 years. So we focus on building capacity and then passing it along. Then, we move on to building other programs.

吉布森说：“我们从旅行中学到了很多东西。”“因此，由于我们的榜样，我们总是从北卡罗来纳州带来新的想法。”

They do face challenges that come with growth, such as balancing the needs of diverse organizations and creating scalable models that can serve their clientele with equal quality and efficiency no matter where in the world they’re located.

Mangum说，克服障碍是工作的一部分。没有什么可以放慢这两个。

“我们对未来感到兴奋，我们将继续与真正希望在学校进行有影响力的组织和个人建立合作伙伴关系。”

想深入挖掘吗？查看PLLCfull list of programs;读Leading Personalized and Digital Learning, a book co-authored by Mangum and PLLC Director Mary Ann Wolf; and find out what PLLC program participantshave to say about their experiences.