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The document discusses the author's involvement in various professional learning networks (PLNs). The author leads science professional development sessions for 3rd grade teachers, allowing them to connect and share classroom experiences. While the author finds their school's 3rd grade content PLN less engaging this year, they have connected with another 3rd grade team to compare STEM projects. The author is also part of a STEM PLN that collaborates across grade levels on projects and lesson plans and connects with community partners.

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PLN Artifact 2

The document discusses the author's involvement in various professional learning networks (PLNs). The author leads science professional development sessions for 3rd grade teachers, allowing them to connect and share classroom experiences. While the author finds their school's 3rd grade content PLN less engaging this year, they have connected with another 3rd grade team to compare STEM projects. The author is also part of a STEM PLN that collaborates across grade levels on projects and lesson plans and connects with community partners.

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Professional Learning Network

Part 2: In reflecting back over my work as part of the GCPS Science


Curators I realize that I have made many connections with classroom
teachers from different school more so than I ever have before. In leading
3rd grade Science professional developments, I have had the opportunity to
lead Zoom sessions where we discuss the 3rd grade science content, review
grade level learning resources, and simply make professional connections. It
has been beneficial to me because I like learning from other educators. We
each bring a new, unique perspective to the table and can share similar
classroom experiences and troubleshoot with one another. Without
participating in these cohorts, I would be missing those science connections.

I am also involved with two PLNs at my school; STEM team and Third
Grade Content. The 3rd grade content PLN sometimes become stale and
effort is low in learning new content and sharing with one another. I think
this has to do with the heavy load that we as teachers are experiencing this
year. We have had a
few great moments
where we connected
with another 3rd
grade team at a
partner school in our
cluster. We
compared our STEM
PBL projects that are on-going all year round and got to see what kinds of
innovative activities they were implementing in their classrooms. One way
we connected as a PLN with others in our community was by writing a blog
post for our school website. We shared how students were given various
items and were to create heat.

As a STEM PLN we often will connect with other grade levels and stop
by one other’s rooms to share PBL projects and to have students collaborate.
We have also met with leaders from the district office to collaborate on STEM
lesson plans and to help other schools launch their STEM programs. Each
grade level has community partners that they often will Zoom with or
collaborate on projects with. I think these community connections are
important for the staff and students. Students are able to see how learning
content connects to the real world and staff members are able to get a fresh
pair of eyes and get advice on how to improve parts of the project.

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