Watauga County Remix #GoOpenNC Community Building Next Steps

Watauga County Schools

#GoOpenNC has three main opportunities to interact with the resources on the platform.

Level of Engagement	What would be your vision for WHAT your educators would do in the next 6 months?	What would be your vision for WHAT your educators would do in the next 18 months?
Find/Use Existing Resources	Introduction to the OER. Virtual Tour of the platform.	Educators find and use resources.
Collect/Curate Resources and Collections	MTSS collaboration between schools.	Boot Camp for curating resources from other teachers/schools.
Create/Upload Resources	Encourage PLCs and MTSS groups to begin collectively creating resources.	Boot Camp for creating collective resources/remixing.

#GoOpenNC has three main ways to participate on the platform

#GoOpenNC Initiative	What would be your vision for HOW your educators would participate on the platform during the first semester of the 2019-2020 school year?	What would be your vision for HOW your educators would participate on the platform during the second semester of the 2019-2020?
Share/Evaluate Resources	Pilot group of teachers to share in PLCs and MTSS meetings investigating the resources from this platform.	Begin to evaluate using the criteria for resource use on the OER platform.
Participate in Professional Learning locally or statewide	Introduction to the platform and personalized sessions with DLCs and SLMCs. DLCs and SLMCs participate in focused Professional Learning related to OER sharing/evaluating/creating.	Introduce Rubric for Quality Work to PLCs and pilot boot camp group of teachers.
Network and Collaborate with Other NC Educators	Educators will join groups from across NC to begin collaboration.	Educators will join groups from across NC to begin collaboration.

#GoOpenNC has opportunities for all educators to being engaging. Consider who would be your main early engagers in the next 6 months.

Group description	# of educators	Main purpose (Use, curate collections, evaluate or create)	Support needed
Teachers of the Year	35 - one from each school in our district	To create: upload 3 of their most effective lessons into a TOY hub, comment on their peers’ lessons	Training on OER and licensing, structured discussion on high quality materials, scaffolded due dates for uploads

As #GoOpenNC plans to be teacher-facing by August, what would be your plans for engaging your desired educators in doing the WHAT and the HOW?

The Who	The What	The How	The When	The Logistics
TOYs	Evaluate Resources	Using a Group	By December	TOYs will be invited to participate, join a group that includes monthly discussion.
DLCS/SLMCs	Working in the platform	Working in PLCs to learn the platform, evaluate, and remix.	By December
ALL WCS Employees	Introduction to the platform	PLCs, planning period meetings, faculty meetings.	By March 2020	Facilitated by DLCs
Committed Collaborators	Introduction and Deep Dive into individual aspects of the platform.	District PD (choice) Possible Virtual Sessions	by June 2020	Facilitated by DLCs/SLMCs

NCDPI and ISKME can provide support for the ways you are planning to Build the #GoOpenNC Community within your area.

To help #GoOpenNC build a statewide community, please make your requests for support and engagement through this Google Form.