One of the aspects of the Kenan Fellowship that I wasn’t aware of until it happened was the PRL – my Personal Remote Learning plan. \u00a0The idea was simple. \u00a0As part of my program, I was committed to a set number of hours of professional development, but I got to choose what a large portion of it would be. \u00a0My choice was simple. \u00a0During the first Professional Advancement Institute, I heard about a course in Data Literacy. \u00a0I was immediately sold. \u00a0I love data. \u00a0It almost doesn’t matter what it relates to. \u00a0I get super nerdy when data is involved. \u00a0Educational data is even better. \u00a0So, taking a course where I got even better at interpreting and responding to educational data, and then becoming certified to teach the course myself? \u00a0Total no brainer.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until a couple months into the school year that I realized the danger of letting me choose for myself. \u00a0I had chosen something that entailed significantly more hours than was required, and signed up for it in addition to the professional development course my district was requiring of me, which was even more hours. \u00a0I have yet to add up the professional development hours I am completing this year, because I am afraid to see the total and realize how insane I am for actually choosing to do this to myself.<\/p>\n
Of course, I know that I wouldn’t have it any other way. \u00a0I am getting some phenomenal professional development, which wouldn’t have been open to me if not for the Kenan Fellows. \u00a0What’s a few (dozen) late nights of work when you consider the outcome, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the aspects of the Kenan Fellowship that I wasn’t aware of until it happened was the PRL – my Personal Remote Learning plan. \u00a0The idea was simple. \u00a0As part of my program, I was committed to a set number of hours of professional development, but I got to choose what a large portion … Continue reading The PRL – Putting Me in the Driver’s Seat, for Better or for Worse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-abernier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}