Innovative Educators Cohort

Mission

• We exist to educate and empower all students to achieve academic excellence, personal growth and social responsibility.

• Provide all students a rigorous, engaging and differentiated 21st century education in order to create Future Ready Learners.

Vision

• To use blended learning strategies to provide innovation, small group instruction, collaboration, differentiated instruction, student agency, and personalization to educate and empower all students to achieve academic excellence, personal growth, and social responsibility.

Goals

• Provide innovative teaching strategies to enhance classroom instruction.

• Provide support and guidance related to blended learning models.

• Provide professional learning related to digital and blended learning.

• Provide support to transform traditional classrooms to student centered 21st Century learning environments.

Innovative Educators Program Overview

Innovative Educators embrace technology integration across curriculum, instruction, and assessment to insure all students achieve academic excellence, personal growth, and social responsibility. Innovative Educators attend professional development and engage with a professional learning network both inside and outside the district in order to grow their skills, collaborate with others, and embrace professional learning communities of practice. Innovative Educators must have a growth mindset and be willing to take risks and not be afraid to make mistakes as part of the learning process. Innovative Educators model ethical and safe online behavior in support of digital citizenship. Innovative Educators grow as instructional technology leaders, sharing their expertise, experiences, and knowledge with other teachers and staff. The innovative educators cohort will help teachers provide the necessary skills to San Jacinto Unified students to be college or career ready and future ready learners. 

Innovative Educators: 

• Adopt Google Apps for Education for instructional and professional workflows.
• Design 21st Century lessons to promote a culture of constructing knowledge instead of consuming knowledge through the use of technology.
• Create a classroom environment that promotes 21st century teaching and learning. 
• Continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning. 
• Join a professional learning community that inspires innovative learning such as CUE or ISTE.
• Inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world. 
• Dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. 
• Understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals. 
• Seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning. 
• Attend professional learning opportunities offered within the district and actively participate in a professional learning network. 

Are you ready to be an Innovative Educator?

• To join the Innovative Educator cohort you'll need a partner or team of teachers to collaborate and work with on this adventure. Use the Google form to sign-up and a member of the Ed Tech department will contact you with more information and resources to make this an effective learning experience.