This week, we’re releasing Reflectivity 12.6.0, an exciting step forward in helping schools transform coaching and professional development programs into holistic reflection programs.
Reflectivity guides teachers to deeper levels of thought through video and written reflection, feedback and discussion, and thoughtful planning about next steps in the reflection cycle.
It all happens through Reflectvity’s engaging and motivating collaborative reflection experience.
Reflect in Groups
Groups foster frequent, open-ended, and social reflection among peers, coaches, and mentors. Creating a group is easy. Anyone with access to Reflectivity can do it.
Groups have flexible settings for membership and content, making them a powerful way to bring more support, feedback and connection to professional learning workflows. For example:
- Coaching: A coach can have 1:1 conversations with specific teachers, and view these private interactions in one convenient, easy-to-access space.
- New teachers: Invite new teachers to a private group where they can share their experiences. Together, group members can celebrate wins, empathize with struggles, and brainstorm solutions.
- Support initiatives: Create a group open to your whole team, department, or grade level. This is a powerful way to reflect together on new technology or curriculum.
With a space to reflect and connect at any time, Groups empower you to make your existing professional learning more dynamic, ongoing, and collaborative.
A flexible reflection experience
Reflection looks different for everyone, but educators consistently include three key pieces: evidence, thinking, and plans.
With Reflectivity’s new reflection experience, inspired by the 4Fs Framework, you can reflect with the level of depth that’s right for your situation and needs.
- Evidence: Upload a video or URL as evidence begin a conversation with a coach, colleague, or mentor about your experience.
- Thinking: Reflect in writing to share your findings, and name the feelings you have about your experience.
- Plans: Keep the reflection cycle going by planning for the future step of your learning.
Each reflection includes a discussion section where you can share resources, receive feedback, or coordinate logistics about your work.
Go deeper with Skills
As your team builds a reflection routine around reflecting in Groups, Reflectivity helps you reap individual and organizational benefits.
By adding Skills to a reflection, teachers can share more context about their work and focus more specifically on one area of their practice. When new Skills are added to a reflection, a new Group is created. Other teachers can discover this Skill Group via any reflection that includes it, helping new Groups to grow organically.
This way, Groups in Reflectivity are a dynamic, live look at your organization’s professional learning priorities.
Beyond video to holistic reflection
Reflectivity still has all the powerful features you need to reflect and share feedback on instructional videos.
But what if every teacher on your team regularly reflected on progress and exchanged feedback with colleagues? What improvements to student outcomes would you see if your teachers were developing to their fullest potential? How much more adaptable could your organization be?