RoP Leaders
Pushing forward our professional growth
August 4, 2017: Implementation | RoP Leaders
Author: Lindzy Bivings Organization: California Academy of Sciences Hi! Lindzy Bivings, from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA. Our mission is to explore, explain, and sustain life on earth. Of course, this means we do a lot of education—here at our museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, at schools and other […]
Read More »Gaining Perspective in free-choice learning: Reflecting on Practice
July 5, 2017: RoP Leaders
Author: Lindzy Bivings, Organization: California Academy of Sciences Looking back on things helps us gain perspective, but truly reflecting on educational practices helps build a roadmap guiding us into the future. Read Lindzy’s five tips in gaining perspective through using reflection to become a more effective educator in her great post on the ASTC site.
Read More »Credibility and validity for our work as educators
June 2, 2017: Aquarium | Implementation | RoP Leaders
Author: Karen Burns Organization: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center My name is Karen Burns, and I am an Aquarium Education Specialist at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. For nearly a decade, the Aquarium has worked to improve the skills of its education staff through incorporating reflective practice. Along with my colleague, Gallery […]
Read More »RoP as SOP at AoP
May 24, 2017: Aquarium | Implementation | RoP Leaders
Author: Dave Bader Organization: Aquarium of the Pacific I’m Dave Bader, Director of Education at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. At AoP, we’ve worked as a team to integrate RoP into the culture of our education department. As anyone who has completed a powerful professional learning experience knows, you leave the […]
Read More »Professional learning across time and space
May 24, 2017: Career advancement | Implementation | RoP Leaders
Author: Kristin Evans Organization: University of Texas, Austin-Marine Science Institute Hi! I’m Kristin Evans. As an informal educator, I know that many of us in our field live in a world where it’s unlikely that we’ll stay working in a single institution for our whole careers. Being open to change, while keeping the big picture […]
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