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and Associates and its use of brain-based learning in support of my overall metaphor
and views on education. I would also expand what I had learned as a result of this
more in-depth research and exploration to create blog posts for my professional blog
and on the one to which I contribute as part of my department. Furthermore, I would
love to use all that I would have learned as the basis for posts and articles to submit to
outside outlets within the educational industry such as Edutopia and EdSurge.
In creating this artifact, I realized that it acted as personal professional development as
I certainly found myself changing and, as a result, it had an impact upon professional
development within my corner of my school. This impact could be assessed by the
increase in my professional efficacy. This artifact also informed my contributions to
collaborative meetings with peers, and thus, became professional development for them
as well. This also had an impact upon professional development as I was also able to
translate my observations from my metaphor into professional development sessions I
have facilitated. Back within my classroom, my students did become more
academically autonomous which was fortified by the expectations my teammates had
upon them as well. I cannot say that my approach was the impetus for this impact, but I
was glad to see that my colleagues and I were working synergistically as was evidenced
by the parallel increase in our common assessment scores as observed at our quarterly
data team meetings.