The Facilitator Learning Community (FLC) is a year-long learning community designed to support BSILI participants and their colleagues in planning and facilitating the professional learning (PL) experiences they need to help their campuses design and implement their change initiatives.
The FLC launched on September 8, 2018 with 25 participants and has now served over 76 California community college educators.
In the FLC, participants:
- Use a backwards design framework to refine/ revise PL Hub plans and logic models;
- Plan, implement, evaluate, and revise at least one PL event/ experience;
- Develop experience and expertise in facilitating PL in ways that build collegial relationships and foster learning;
- Provide input into 3CSN events to make sure that these maximize the kind of learning you need for your projects; and
- Identify and be supported to access resources necessary to implement your college’s PL hub.
The inquiry questions participants explore are:
- How do you design PL experiences in ways that build relationships and build knowledge using the principles regarding how people learn? How do you honor, activate, and build from people’s prior experience? How do you create opportunities for them to organize and build their own knowledge? How do you support metacognitive reflection?
- How do you create PL experiences that are relevant and meaningful to, and inclusive of, people from across campus, including students? How do you facilitate PL experiences in ways that manage and intervene in power dynamics so that everyone is an equal participant?
- How do you collect artifacts to assess learning and to deepen/ further learning?
The FLC participants receive training and coaching from 3CSN, as well as support from colleagues. Their work culminates in a sharing event at the end of the academic year.