Dave Nagel --PLC impact through mind frame -VL slides
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Visible Learning Mind Frames
A Path to Ensure PLCs Best Impact Student Learning
Dave Nagel
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Understand connection between Visible Learning mind frames and success in professional learning communities Recognize five core factors influencing PLC impact on student learning Understand teacher development of mind frames in PLCs occurs over time Recognize importance of developing instructional routines for dialogue around student learning Understand creating common challenges leads PLCs to better view assessment as feedback; fostering a shared understanding of student progress
Learning Inten+ons
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Articulate reasons that limit PLC impact on student learning and how to address these in their school setting Determine actions to empower learning teams with appropriate structured freedom leading to increased efficacy Develop PLC instructional protocols for dialogue related to student learning Create common challenges for your PLCs that will unite adult actions and efforts
Success Criteria
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Are your PLCs having their
greatest possible impact?
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These PLC traits contribute as much as 36% of variance in quality classroom pedagogy and 85% variance in achievement.
(Vescio, 2008).
Goal Se3ng Shared Values
Collabora<ve Culture
Posi<ve Adult Rela<onships
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Why aren’t all PLCs having this impact?
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Possible Reasons for Lack of PLC Impact
Validating Ineffective Practices
PLC change focuses on teaching not learning !
Place to Avoid Change
False Assumptions
Common term for any conversation
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How do the reasons for PLC impact being diminished
resonate with you?
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PercepAons and beliefs of teachers were the most significant predictors of change
(Smylie 1988 p. 23)
Why Mind Frames MaQer
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Excitement & interest
“This will be
great!”
Retreat “What I was doing was
good enough!”
Awareness
“I can do better—I want to be
better!”
Developing Mind Frames “My outlook professionally had permanently changed!”
Drop out Indifference /
Passive aggressive
Stay Put
Efforts towards status quo
Paralysis
Inability to develop Mind
Frames
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What is the current reality of the mind frames of the PLCs in your school?
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Measurable improvement in student learning only occurred in PLCs that focused on changing the instrucAonal pracAces of their teachers.
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PLCs that focus on LEARNING…Not teaching
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CollaboraAon in PLCs
Too much collabora<on can be s<fling; too li9le leads to teacher isola<on. Leaders must ensure there is the just right amount of teachers suppor<ng colleagues for effec<ve changes in prac<ce to occur.
(Opfer and Pedder, 2011)
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What are some take aways about how possible paths for adults to embrace and implement new
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Critical Mind
Frames
Common Challenge
Relational Trust
Efficacy Instruc<onal
Protocols
Focus on ADULT
Learning
Core Elements Of IMPACT Learning
Teams
Authen<c
Through Empowerment
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Develops a way of thinking ... That guide team passions and efforts towards having their greatest possible impact
Common Challenges
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Efficacy & Empowerment
CollecAve responsibility for student learning is vital. Creates proper peer pressure and accountability and eliminates isolaAon
(King & Newmann, 2001; Kruse, Louis & Bryk, 1995; Leithwood & Louis, 1998)
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As Resnick (2010) highlights, collabora<ve rou<nes among teachers are an important component in securing improved student learning outcomes.
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Authen<c instruc<onal norms and protocols
CriAcal Importance of Talking about LEARNING not Teaching
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Stage 1: Breaking Down IsolaAon
Stage 2: Talk About Student Learning
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Stage 3: Improvement of Teaching
Stage 4: Professional Development
Accomplishment
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What ac<ons can you take right now to increase these five elements in
your school / PLC ?
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Five PotenAal PLC Trip Wires
Normalizing
Processes and Structured Mee+ng Steps
Common Assessments
Professionally Challenging Peers
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Normalizing
When normalizing defines a challenge as an expected part of classroom work and teacher experience, this will most o[en supply reassurance and build relaAonal trust. (LiQle & Horn, 2007).
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When teachers posiAon the person staAng the challenge as helpless in the face of circumstances beyond his or her control team most o[en did not look to any soluAons. (Horn and LiQle, 2010)
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Teachers can nurture alliances based on supporAng resistance to learning and professional growth.
(Opfer and Pedder, 2011)
Pecking Order Challenges
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Please Read Case Study—Alpha Junior High School
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What are your three biggest take away’s from the Alpha Junior-‐Senior
High case study?
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Learning is HARD work
Dissonance in teacher thinking is o[en required for teachers to unlearn much of what they believe, know, and know how to do in order to learn and adopt new pracAces.
( Ball, 1988)
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