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Learning Resources

Listed below is an archive of resources, articles, web links, and other documents that have been used in partnership work.

Communities of Practice (2009-2010):
• Community of practice FAQs (PDF)
• Community of practice: introductory guide (PDF)
• Community of practice charter (Word)
• Etienne Wenger community of practice web site

Mission Cafés (fall 2008):
• World Café primer (PDF)
• World Café web site

Site Visits (fall 2008):
• Key points handout (PDF)
• Partnership overview (PDF)
• Work plan diagrams (PDF)
• RUSD-Ball partnership story (PDF)

Immersion Days (winter 2008-09):
• APA Learner-Centered Psychological Principles (PDF)
• Literacy Attributes (PDF)
• Literacy Network PowerPoint slides (PDF)
• Strategic plan documents (PDF)
• Give One, Get One tool (PDF)
• Peak Experience protocol (PDF)
• Tea Party primer (PDF)

First Network Day (March 2008):
• Fishbowl primer (PDF)
• Open Space primer (PDF)
• ATLAS-Learning from Student Work protocol (PDF from National School Reform Faculty Harmony Education Center)
• Ball Foundation Education Initiatives Value Proposition (PDF)

The Rowland-Ball Partnership invites you to be a part of a special project:

Voices of Personal and Organizational Transformation

WHAT: The Ball Partnership is asking the people of RUSD to share and record one memorable experience they’ve had while working with the Partnership that has affected their thinking, beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, teaching, and/or relationships.

WHY: The Ball Partnership is collecting these experiences in order to better understand the impact that the work of the Partnership is having on RUSD. The collected experiences will be published in book format in the fall of 2009, and will be marketed to teachers, district leadership, and educational policy-makers around the country. Copies will be provided to RUSD.

WHERE and WHEN: Stories were collected in May 2009. We are currently working on transcribing, editing, and finding major themes and patterns from these wonderful stories. We hope to publish a version of these stories in Fall 2009.