After completing all criteria, Part 2: LEARN,DO, REFLECT, submit Part II of your application. You should hear within four to seven days whether or not your application has been approved. If approved, you will receive a badge with your congratulatory email. Please be sure to add [email protected] to your contact list.

Becoming a Common Sense Educator a two-step application process. After completing Part 1: Joining the Facebook group and registering with Common Sense Education, submit Part I of your application here. You will receive the link for Part II of the application within 24 hours.

Congratulations, Common Sense Educator!

1. Part 1: Join

   Create your profile on Common Sense Education. If you haven't already, sign up as an educator on our membership page, and create a profile.

   Become a member of the community. Join the Common Sense Educator community on Facebook. As part of being a Common Sense Educator, we ask educators to share and engage with each other. The community is a supportive place for you to connect with other like-minded educators, Common Sense Educators, and Ambassadors. Please see our FAQ below if you do not use Facebook.

   Apply. Becoming a Common Sense Educator is a two-step application process. After completing Part 1: Registering with Common Sense Education and joining the Facebook group, submit Part I of your application here. You will receive the link for Part II of the application within 24 hours.

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   Part 2: Learn, do, reflect

   Here's the fun part! You have a personalized voice and choice in your own professional learning, how you'd like to implement or teach students, and what you find useful to reflect on and share. For each of the steps below, select one activity for digital citizenship and another for digital teaching. You get to determine which activities you want to complete.

   1. Step 1: Learn

      Common Sense Education has many great professional development resources for educators, including webinars, tutorials, Tech Tips & Resources, and in-person trainings. Select two learning activities: one related to digital citizenship and another to digital teaching. Use our Facebook group to explore ideas or get recommendations. Resources can be found on our site for free. And if you're a Premium member, you'll have access to our exclusive e-learning content and can track your own progress.

      Digital Citizenship Complete the digital citizenship training. Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar. Attend an in-person training by Common Sense staff, PD partner, or Ambassador. Complete Premium Membership eLearning (mini-course, webinar, etc.)*.

      Digital Teaching Complete a Tech Tips & Resources page. Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar. Attend an in-person training by Common Sense staff, PD partner, or Ambassador. Complete Premium Membership eLearning (mini-course, webinar, etc.)*.

      Time commitment: 2 hrs. (estimate)

   2. Step 2: Do

      In this step, you implement ideas from the LEARN step into your work or practice. This could involve teaching students a digital citizenship lesson, applying a digital teaching strategy in your lesson, facilitating a parent education event, designing a tech-rich lesson, creating an implementation plan, or more. Select two activities: one related to digital citizenship and another to digital teaching. The community can serve as a place to get support as you teach lessons or incorporate edtech tools into your instruction.

      Digital Citizenship Create one digital citizenship lesson plan (using the Common Sense Education template). Teach one lesson from the Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Teach/facilitate one module from Digital Passport™. Teach/facilitate one storyline from Digital Compass. Teach/facilitate one byte from Digital Bytes. Create a digital citizenship implementation plan. Ex.: K–12 instruction plan. Facilitate a Connecting Families event. Create a parent engagement plan**. Create a digital citizenship professional development plan**. Facilitate a parent event using the Parent Engagement Toolkit*.

      Digital Teaching Create one tech-rich lesson plan (using our template). Teach one tech-rich lesson (from our catalog). Facilitate a Connecting Families event. Create a digital teaching implementation plan**. Create a parent engagement plan**. Create a digital learning professional development plan**. Facilitate a parent event using the Parent Engagement Toolkit*.

      Time commitment: 2 hrs. (estimate; time may vary depending on the nature of what you do!)

   3. Step 3: Reflect

      Sharing successes (and failures) is an important part of the learning process and an essential part of professional growth. In this final step, you authentically describe your insights, weaving in ideas that you put into practice from the LEARN and DO steps.

      Write a reflection in which you explain your insights from the LEARN and DO activities you completed. Post your reflection in the Common Sense Educator community.

       

      Time commitment: 1 hr. (estimate)

      *Available with Premium Membership only.

      **Option available for all educators but templates, examples, and additional support offered with Premium Membership.

What's the process?

Check out the the detailed program requirements below. It's a two-part application process, and criteria should take approximately four to six hours to complete. Applications are rolling, and educators must fulfill criteria during the 2017–2018 school year. Please apply anytime before June 30, 2018 to earn recognition for the 2017-2018 school year.