CPDLead is THE online Glow community for all Scottish educators at school, local authority, or organisations who have responsibility for CPD …
In CPDLead, you can:
find and contact like-minded colleagues from across Scotland
share ideas, experiences, links, resources and practice with colleagues;
take part in the weekly online seminars (CPDMeets) on a variety of topics (why not lead one yourself?)
take part in online discussions
ask (and get answers to) your CPD questions
Who can join CPDLead?
Any Scottish educator with responsibility for CPD for can join
How much does it cost?
Nothing at all! However, like all our communities, you have to commit to a bit of collegiality before you join. You must:
upload a photograph and introduce yourself to the CPDCentral members gallery and choose CPDLead as one of the groups you want to join.
agree to at least 5 collegiate activities over the next year. All of these count as collegiate activities:
uploading an item of interesting practice
sharing an idea, intention, issue or insight
starting, or contributing to, a discussion
taking part in, or leading, a CPDMeet
OK, how do I join CPDLead?
1. Make sure you have a photograph of yourself on your computer
2. Make sure you have your Glow username and password handy
3. Add yourself to the gallery using this online form. Make sure you tick the box CPDLead.
4. Wait for a bit. We will add you to the community and send you an email when it’s done. If you don’t hear from us within 3 school days, then please drop Susan a line s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk
I-share is a way of sharing in the Glow communities run by the National CPD Team.
There are five Is you can share with colleagues in your CPD community: Issue, Idea, Intention, Insight and Interesting practice.
Wherever you see this symbol, you can upload one of your own.
Wherever you see this symbol, you can see what others have shared.
You can also I-share across more than one CPD community. Using the I-share form is pretty straightforward but please contact Susan (s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk) if you need more help.
Since 2007, Scottish Government has sponsored a Summer School on Leadership. You can find out more on the Summer School website. To accompany the 2010 event, Creating leadership capacity for system-wide change, the National CPD Team are facilitating an online community on Glow. The aim of the group is to continue the impetus for system-wide change which was started at the event.
Who can join the Summer School on Glow?
Anyone who attended the 2010 event in person or online
Colleagues who have been sponsored by the above attendees
Previous attendees of Summer Schools
The membership has been limited to help us focus on the impact of the Summer Schools on leadership capacity. If you think you are eligible to join this community, please contact Susan s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk
What can I do in this community?
In this community, you can:
make or renew contact with like-minded colleagues from across Scotland
access videos of most of the key presentations
access interesting practice shared by Summer School on Glow members; videos, presentations, documents, etc
declare your own intentions and study the intentions of others
take part in online discussions on the forum
The wee video above will give you a flavour of what’s happening on the Glow group.
How much does it cost?
Nothing at all! However, you have to commit to a bit of collegiality before you join. You must:
upload a photograph and introduce yourself to the members’ gallery
agree to at least 3 collegiate activities. Examples of collegiate activities include:
CPDCentral is an online community for all Scottish educators on Glow. If you’re looking for innovative CPD and want to share CPD practice with other educators, then this is the community to join.
On CPDCentral, you can:
find and contact like-minded colleagues from across Scotland
access interesting practice shared by CPDCentral members; videos, presentations, documents, etc
take part in the weekly online seminars (CPDMeets) on a variety of topics
take part in online discussions on the CPDCentral forum
ask (and get answers to) your CPD questions
Who can join CPDCentral?
Any Scottish educator can join (teacher, adviser, early years practitioner, learning assistant, you name it!) .
How much does it cost?
Nothing at all! However, you have to commit to a bit of collegiality before you join. You must:
upload a photograph and introduce yourself to the CPDCentral members gallery
agree to at least 5 collegiate activities over the next year. All of these count as collegiate activities:
uploading an item of interesting practice
sharing an idea, intention, issue or insight
starting, or contributing to, a discussion
taking part in, or leading, a CPDMeet
OK, how do I join CPDCentral?
1. Make sure you have a photograph of yourself on your computer
2. Make sure you have your Glow username and password handy
3. Add yourself to the gallery using this online form. Make sure you tick the box CPDCentral.
4. Wait for a bit. We will add you to the community and send you an email when it’s done. If you don’t hear from us within 3 school days, then please drop Susan a line s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk
Typically, on application to join one of the CPD communities, you will have been sent a link to an online form.
Before you start filling in the form, make sure you:
have your Glow username and password handy
a photograph of yourself on your computer.
This form is very straightforward to use as long as you remember to start with browsing to the filename of your photograph on the computer.
The wee video below shows you how to fill in the form.
Please note!
We seem to be having an intermittent problem with this form. When you finish (by clicking Save and close), some computers are generating an error message. There is no need to re-enter your details, they are probably saved. If in doubt, email Susan s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk and let her know.
What happens next?
Thereafter, you will get an email explaining how to access the community. Please note this may take a few hours as it the email will be sent by a real person not a machine!
Any educator interested in, leading or taking part in a Learning Round should join the LR online community on Glow. Here you will find:
colleagues in the same boat as you!
resources to organise a learning round
where learning rounds are taking place
To take part in this community, you must commit to:
introducing yourself online
contribute in some way to the resource bank
To join this community, send an email to stepin@ltscotland.org.uk with your name and Glow username (eg gw09lennierounds). Susan our online CPD administrator will email you with a link.
Learning Rounds is a new kind of collaborative professional learning. It involves teams of staff observing and learning about and from school practice. Observers create a base of evidence describing what they have seen. There are no evaluative comments or value-laden points. The team then discusses how they, their school or authority will use the data to bring about improvement.
This evidence-based process leads to a continuous development of practice at personal, school and authority level. Staff learn together and both those observed and those observing develop and deepen their understanding of how to improve learning. As importantly, the process creates descriptive evidence that can generate effective change across a school or authority.
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