Warm-Up and Welcome (10 minutes)

(4 mins) As participants join the call…

• Encourage them to share their video, and update their display names so at least their first names are displayed.
• Ask them to take attendance using your workshop’s unique attendance code
• Encourage people to respond in writing to the warm-up prompt on the slide: “What is one of your highlights (personal or professional) from this summer?”

(4 mins) Welcome

• Quick reminder of video and mute features on Zoom
• Facilitators and producer introduce themselves and their roles in the cohort
• Remind participants they will have many opportunities to get to know each other and build a supportive community as they go through this experience together this year.
• Pick a few responses from the warm-up to highlight, and ask the participants who share those responses to come off of mute and share out a bit more.

(1 min) Today’s Agenda

(1 min) Norms

Remind the group of the K-12 Professional Learning norms that were established during the Summer Workshop.

• Be present
• Make space and take space.
• Seek to understand.
• Take risks.
• Expect and accept non-closure.

What to Expect from AYWs (16 minutes)

(10 mins) Overview of Academic Year Workshops

Producers: Prepare random breakout rooms for groups of 3 or 4 people per room. Set room duration for 6-minutes, with a 10-second countdown timer.

(4 mins) Prompt

Think back to your summer workshop experience. What did you value about that experience? Consider the approach to learning, the community, how you were engaged, what you needed to fully participate virtually, etc.

• (1 min) Reflect silently, and consider jotting these things down in your journal

• (3 mins) Type a few of the things you valued about that experience into the shared slide, and then take a look at what others have written.

(1 min) Breakout Room Directions (Groups of 3 or 4)

**Producers: Open random breakout rooms for groups of 3 to 4 people per room. Set room duration for 6-minutes, with a 10-second countdown timer.

(6 mins) Breakout rooms

• (~2 min) What commonalities do you see in what we’ve all shared?
• (~4 mins) What do you want to commit to as a participant to make our academic year workshops a positive experience for our cohort?

**Producers: close breakout rooms.

(1 min) Closing

Facilitators: Close by choosing one or two things from the list generated by participants that you can commit to supporting as facilitators, and share those out. If you don’t see things in the list that you’d like to highlight, consider saying something like, “In addition to all of the great ideas you’ve generated here, as facilitators we’re really committed to a few specific things.” Examples to consider (facilitators are encouraged to develop commitments make sense for their cohort’s context):

• Creating a cohort community where you feel welcomed and able to participate and ask questions
• Making sure that our synchronous sessions are a time for active learning and community building.

(3 mins) Components of Virtual AYWs

(2 mins) Each module starts with asynchronous work. We’ll walk through how to find and engage with those materials in a few minutes. For now, we want to stress a few things:

• The asynchronous portion isn’t optional! This work is a valuable time for you to engage in meaningful learning at your own pace, and is designed to feed into the following synchronous workshop.
• The asynchronous work for each module is designed to take about 90 mins to complete. You might find optional activities, lessons, videos, etc. that you want to spend more time digging into, and that’s ok! However, it’s not expected or required that you go beyond 90 mins for the asynchronous work.
• To support the connection between the asynchronous and synchronous components of the modules, and to keep us connected as a community, the asynchronous work ends with a written reflection that will be visible to the entire cohort in the shared slides. As facilitators, we’ll use your responses to those questions to help inform the content of the upcoming synchronous portion of the module.

(1 min) Once a month, we’ll come together for the synchronous portion of the module.

• Each synchronous workshop is also 90 mins.
• We prioritize activities during our synchronous time that are best completed with other people in real-time: discussions, collaborative exercises, etc.

• At the end of each synchronous workshop, we’ll make sure you know how to find the asynchronous work for the next module.

  • You can find the schedule for all of our synchronous workshops on our cohort’s digital digest. We recommend you bookmark this digital digest as it will contain the links to all of the slide decks we’ll use this year.

Asynchronous Practice (22 minutes)

(5 mins) Demonstration

(4 mins) Demonstration (Facilitator shares screen)

At the end of each synchronous workshop, you’ll find a slide that includes a link to our digital digest.

• Go to the Digital Digest to find the slide deck for the next module.
  • Use the /join code to join
  • Open the deck for that module, and find the asynchronous work instructions at the beginning of that deck. Those instructions include a link to the asynchronous course in Code Studio, a place to add questions as they come up for you, a space to post a reflection that the whole group will see, and a link to the pre-survey for the next module.

Things to highlight about the asynchronous course

• Estimated times
• Reflection prompts, and who sees their submissions
• Opportunities to dig into optional activities and resources (e.g., videos, lessons, etc). Make sure to stress that these optional activities are included to help meet a variety of needs and interests, and participants should engage with those materials in a way that makes sense for them.

(17 mins) Try it!

(9 mins) Independent Resource Exploration

• Participants explore the asynchronous course, and note questions on the questions slide.

• As participants explore, facilitators should keep an eye on the questions on the slide, and choose questions to prioritize during the Q&A

(5 mins) Q & A

• Respond to as many of the questions that were added to the slide as is reasonable.

Wrap up (5 minutes)

Check parking lot and respond as appropriate. Direct participants to take the survey (link in slide).