Edmonton Regional Learning

Consortium

District Contact/Advisory

Committee Meeting

May 2016

AgendaGoals for the Day

• Math Clarifications – AB ED

• Intentionality for Deep Learning

• Quality Professional Learning

• Thinking About Your Context

• Planning for 2016-2017

Synthesis of 2015-2016

• 343 sessions to date

• 51 sessions upcoming to Aug 31

• 121 DD days

• 13,557 participants

• 99.01% Satisfied Participants

2015-2016 New Resources

Creating Communities of PracticeLearning for AllProfessionals without Parachutes: Supporting Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum DisordersLiteracy and Numeracy ProgrammingLearning Through Competencies OverviewElementary Mathematics Professional LearningSupporting Competency DevelopmentHosting a Family Night: Engaging First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Families

Resources to come:First Nation, Métis and Inuit Learning Guides focusing on histories, treaties…First Nation, Métis and Inuit Photovoice projectLearning Commons Learning GuideInclusive Education VideosLearning guides to support MathematicsLiteracy for Students with Significant Disabilities Website

New Pedagogies for Deeper Learning

11 Big Trends for 2016: What’s Ahead in K-12 Education

1. New Definitions of Student Success2. Rethinking Measurements3. Student-Centered Environments4. Mobile Learning5. Cloud Computing6. Personalized PD7. Leaders managing change and continuous improvement8. Data-informed decisions9. “Balanced Scorecard approach” - asking whether students

get what they need in real time 10. Programming, Robotics & the Maker Movement11. Neuroscience, Youth Development Research & How Kids

Learn Bestinacol.org/news/11-big-trends-for-2016-predictions-and-changes-ahead-in-k-12-education/

Another trend…

Rubik’s Cube Fun Facts

A Rubik’s Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000possible configurations.

How to Solve 3x3

How to Solve 2x2

Fia’s Story

“Learning a new strategy or behavior involves movement through phases.”

Marzano, Effective Supervision, ASCD 2011

“There will be things we need to unlearnin order to move our priority areas forward.”

Simon Breakspear, uLead 2016

Whether students are high, low or average achievers, they will learn more if their teachers regularly engage

in high-quality professional development …

Hayes Mizell, Why Professional Development Matters, Learning Forward, 2010

It may seem strange to say that professional development—educators going to workshops and conferences, and taking courses—bears little relationship to classroom and school improvement. Similarly teachers toiling away as individuals do not add up to school or system success. What really counts is what happens ‘in between workshops’ or what Fullan calls learning is the work. (Video posted – June 2015)

www.michaelfullan.ca/topic-video-learning-is-the-work/

Michael Fullan: Learning is the Work

Trio Talk:1. Form a Trio

2. Share your thinking: What is happening between the workshops? Staff learning day?

3. Discuss your similarities and differences

What makes great teachers and great school leaders?

Shifts in Professional Learning for System-Wide Improvement

FROM: TO:

Focus on teacher needs only Focus on student learning needs and

what learning teachers need in order to

help students learn

Focus on individual development Focus on individual, school and system-

wide learning and improvement

District direction and decision-making Direction and decision-making by

district, school and individual through

collegial discussion and data analysis

and driven by a coherent, long term

strategic plan

Professional development for teachers Professional development for everyone

Awareness sessions Professional learning that provides time

for learning, practice and follow-up

Professional learning as an extra Professional learning as an essential

component of educator growth

ERLC Planning for Professional Learning to Support System-Wide Improvement

Potential Protocols for Professional Learning:

1. Planning:• District needs assessment• District PD plan• Research-based• Integration of initiatives• Leadership development

2. Learning:• Professional learning

strategies• Sustained over time• Multiple supports

3. Implementation:• Essential conditions are met• Multiple supports

4. Evaluation:• Measuring the impact• Monitoring and adjust

School systems that invest in professional learning and build coherence throughout the system demonstrate commitment to human capital development and acknowledge that investment

in educator learning is a significant lever in improving student achievement.

Standards for Professional Learning, Learning Forward, 2011

Defining & Designing Professional Learning to Best Support Schools/Jurisdictions

TYPES OF PL OFFERED by ERLC :

• Awareness Sessions

• Digging Deeper Sessions

• Communities of Practice

• Specialized Training

• Learning Guides

Are we subjects of change

or of change? Panel Discussion, uLead 2016

Effective changes processes shape and reshape good ideas

as they build capacity and ownership among participants.

There are two components: the quality of the idea and the

quality of the process.

Fullan, M. & Quinn. J. (2015). Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts and Systems. Corwin Press.

The Coherence Framework (Fullan)

Clarity about goals is not sufficient. Consider the degree to which your culture supports change and the degree of explicitness…

Superficiality Depth

Inertia Resistance

Ch

ange

Clim

ate

Explicitness

Agile Schools – Simon Breakspear

How do we get better all the time?

Agile Leadership*Simon Breakspear

Agile Leader

Same

Removed

Tweaked

Redesigned

Four Questions that Drive the Agile Leader

• What should we stop doing?

• What steps should we take next?

• What should we tweak in order to be more effective?

• What should we keep doing?

Audit of ActivitiesHigh IMPACT ON LEARNING

High CHANGE EFFORT Low CHANGE EFFORT

Low IMPACT ON LEARNING

Start with your outcome and then determine what needs to happen at each level to accomplish that goal…

Triangulation of the Data

AB ED Priority Areas

3YR ED PlanJurisdictional

Reps (DC/ACM)

Intentional Professional Learning

• Focused on Alberta Education Curriculum priorities• Based on the “big rocks” in each curriculum area

• Reflective of AB ED Frameworks: LTPF, Inclusive ED, Curriculum Framework

• First Nation, Métis and Inuit perspectives• Aligned with District 3 Year Education Plans

• Mix of stand-alone and multi-sessions• Responsive to current needs

• Google, Engaging Learners, BYOD, Digital Citizenship, Maker Spaces and Tech Tools for AFL

• First Nations, Métis & Inuit• CTF, Global Education, Kodaly Music and

Purposeful Play• ELL, French Immersion• Inclusion - Supporting Writing• Numeracy - First Steps• Literacy – K-3, 4-6, 7-12• Kagan – Cooperative & Brain-Based Learning

ECSD-Kagan in the Classroom

Featured Speakers

ACPI ici – Nov 4

Kim Sutton – Oct 6Shelley Moore – Sept 27

Caroline Musselwhite – Oct 3

Featured Speakers

David Irvine – October 7

Marian Small – August 31, February 7

Dr. John Ratey –October 26Leadership:

The Authentic Way

The Brain Fitness Connection

Dr. Barry Prizant – September 19-20

Featured Speakers

Steven Katz – May 30, 2017 Douglas Fisher – Aug 15, 2017

Trevor Calkins – Nov 8, 2016

Sessions to Note

Community of Practices:

• COP for Principals

• COP for Vice-Principals

• COP for PBL

• COP for PEERS® ( supporting students with Autism)

• Leaders’ Learning Symposium – January 2017

• CTF Symposium - January 2017

• Ed Tech Summit – Winter 2017

Learning Commons Symposium- Sept 23 , 2016

Intentional Professional Learning

• Focused on Alberta Education Curriculum priorities

• Based on the “big rocks” in each curriculum area

• Reflective of AB ED Frameworks:

LTPF, Inclusive ED, Curriculum Framework

• First Nation, Métis and Inuit perspectives

• Aligned with District 3 Year Education Plans

• Mix of stand-alone and multi-sessions

• Responsive to current needs

Seeking your input

Please review the sessions we are in the process of booking for next year:

• Do they meet your needs?

• Any presenters you would highly recommend?

• Are there any other areas of need?Google Sheet

Good Fit Professional Learning

It is relevant to my practice.

Promotes sense of team so we can grow together

It builds my capacity to support student learning.

Challenges my thinking.

Keeps me engaged.