Please note: The stipend guidelines provided below apply to July/August 2020 Summer Institute participants only.
Post-Institute Stipend Guidelines
Teacher stipends will be available to Sonoma County teachers who registered for the DISRUPT 2020 Institute by the July 1, 2020 deadline and who choose to engage in collaboration, implementation and documentation post-Institute. The stipend is intended to honor the extended contract time required for staff to design, collaborate and share their practice with a wider audience. Teachers may choose to pursue one of the options listed below and submit documentation of learning to apply for a stipend post-Institute.
After reviewing the stipend options, please confirm that you wish to apply for a post-institute stipend and indicate the option for implementation and documentation that you will pursue by Thursday, October 1st, 2020. If you have questions about meeting the expectations of implementation and/or documentation outlined in the guidelines provided below, please contact Dan Blake (dblake@scoe.org) or Sarah Lundy (slundy@scoe.org).
The documentation of implementation required for each stipend option can be submitted to the DISRUPT 2020 design team for review between October 1, 2020 and December 1st, 2020. Please email documentation submissions to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org.
After reviewing the stipend options, please confirm that you wish to apply for a post-institute stipend and indicate the option for implementation and documentation that you will pursue by Thursday, October 1st, 2020. If you have questions about meeting the expectations of implementation and/or documentation outlined in the guidelines provided below, please contact Dan Blake (dblake@scoe.org) or Sarah Lundy (slundy@scoe.org).
The documentation of implementation required for each stipend option can be submitted to the DISRUPT 2020 design team for review between October 1, 2020 and December 1st, 2020. Please email documentation submissions to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org.
Stipend Option 1: Develop a New Project or Classroom Routine
Develop a new project or classroom routine based on something you learned during the DISRUPT 2020 Summer Institute. Implement the project or new routine in your instruction and collect evidence of student impact. Between October 1st and December 1st, 2020, send the following documentation to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org
- Provide a brief narrative description of the project/routine. This overview of the project or routine should offer another educator a strong understanding of the what, when, where, why & how. In other words, another teacher would be able to review the description and imagine how they might use something similar in their own teaching (500 words or less)
- Provide documentation of the new project or routine's implementation with students (resources, templates or protocols developed; photos; student work samples; a short video, etc.).
Stipend Option 2: Collaborate with Colleagues
Design a schedule for extended contract collaboration and planning time with 1 or more colleagues. Collaboration could include colleagues from the same school site, the same district or even role-alike colleagues from different Sonoma County district. Communicate your extended contract collaboration and planning schedule with your site/district administrator(s). Provide evidence of the resources or outcomes developed during the extended contract collaboration time. Between October 1st and December 1st, 2020 send the following documentation to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org, send the following documentation to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org
- Provide a brief narrative description of the purpose or goal(s) and outcomes of the extended contract collaboration time. This overview of the goals and outcomes should offer another educator a strong understanding of who collaborated together, when the planning team met, and what student learning need(s) were addressed as an outcome of the collaboration. (500 words or less)
- If the collaboration time results in new projects, classroom routines, or school-wide practices, provide documentation of implementation with staff and/or students (photos, student work samples, a short video, etc.).
Stipend Option 3: Gather New Resources & Supplies
Purchase new classroom learning materials or resources for staff or students (books, supplies, digital or online platform subscriptions, etc.). Between October 1st and December 1st, 2020, send the following documentation to Amanda Snook: asnook@scoe.org
- Provide a brief narrative description of the purpose or goal(s) and intended outcomes of implementing the new learning materials, resources, subscription, etc. (300 words or less).
- Provide documentation of implementation with staff and/or students (photos, student work samples, a short video, etc.).
