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=**Sharing Session 1 - November 29, 2006**= [|Laguna Beach Unified School District]

Facilitators: [|Mark Wagner] and David Conlay.

UPDATE 11/22/2006: Please complete the [|Progress and Needs Survey #1] prior to Sharring Session #1 on 11/29.

Agenda
Opening Quotes
 * "Never a checklist, always complexity." Michale Fullan, //Leading in Culture of Change//
 * "We create ourselves. The cycle is suffering, insight, will, action, change." Allen Wheelis (1973, pp. 101-102)

Welcome Activity (10 min)
 * Who has the best (funniest or most touching) story about the Tablet PC in a classroom?
 * Break into groups of three.
 * Share your best story with the group of three.
 * Select the best story of the three, and share that story with the large group.

Review of [|Progress and Needs Survey Data] (10 min)
 * What does the survey tell us?
 * What will we do differently as a result?

Challenges (30 min)
 * What has been the most challenging thing about using the Tablet PC in the classroom?
 * Share these challenges (as a large group - everyone will get a chance to share).
 * Plan for solutions (as a large group, or as small groups working on specific issues).

Best Practices (30 min)
 * What best practices have you discovered? (What has been the most positive impact the Tablet PC has had your classroom?)
 * Share these best practices (as a large group - everyone will get a chance to share).
 * Plan for diffusion of the best practices (as a large group, or as small groups working on specific issues).

Reflection Activity (10 min)
 * What is the most significant thing you've learned today?
 * What will you do differently in the future as a result of what you've learned?

[|Online Evaluation]

Notes From The Session: