Leading Learning Communities: Towards a culture of inquiry within and across schools
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Leading Learning Communities: Towards a culture of inquiry within and across schools
Sue Greer
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The Ontario Context
Ontario Ministry of Education
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The Ontario Leadership Framework
Leadership In Ontario’s Context:
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Leadership is the exercise of influence on organizational members and diverse stakeholders towards the identification and achievement of the organization’s vision and goals
Leadership defined:
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Purpose of the framework:
Facilitate a shared vision of leadership across schools
Common language around what it means to be a leader
Identify the practices, actions and personal traits that describe effective leaders
Guide the design and implementation of professional learning for schools and leaders
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Today’s Overview
The power and perils of learning communities Enabling professional learning- Our model A professional learning focus Collaborative inquiry that challenges thinking
and practice The instructional leader’s role
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Nodes, Threads, Knots, and Nets
Church et al., 2002
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Alphabet Soup!
PLCs, NLCs, Head of School LTs
The ‘letters’ don’t matter!
Implementation matters!
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Effective PLCs:
The power of the idea of a PLC is that members of the group… engage together in challenges of practice so that their understanding of those challenges grows deeper and is more unified. Through their investigations, proposed solutions emerge that are then tested to see if they help…
Supovitz, 2006
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Through such a repeated process, practice grows more sophisticated and powerful and the group develops a tighter sense of camaraderie and common purpose. As a result, they can construct common understanding, share knowledge and experience, and develop common goals..
Supovitz, 2006
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Experience tells us…
This form of professional learning communities was largely absent from the district and the examples (school practitioners) did provide were too diffused and unfocused to have a strong influence on their practice. Activities like book talks and in-school professional development sessions were too sparse and diffused to fulfill the particular goals promised by PLCs
Suppovitz 2006
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The Perils of Learning Communities:
Quality Control Group Think Diffusion of responsibility (Social Loafing) Deindividuation
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The Power of Learning Communities
Learning from one another Learning with one another Learning on behalf of one another
NLG (UK)
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The Power of Learning Communities
Diversity of opinion Independence Decentralization Aggregation
Surowiecki, 2004
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Creating the conditions for focused professional learning
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and
Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
classrooms and
Schools
Teacher Learning -
ProfessionalKnowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Influencing Student Achievement
Classroom instruction is the single greatest predictor of student success
School leadership is second only to classroom instruction on impacting on student achievement
Hattie, Marzano et al., Leithwood et al., and many others!
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and
Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
classrooms and
Schools
Teacher Learning -
ProfessionalKnowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and
Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
classrooms and
Schools
Teacher Learning -
ProfessionalKnowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and
Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
classrooms and
Schools
Teacher Learning -
ProfessionalKnowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Characteristics of a high-leverage Professional LEARNING focus:
strongly connected to the needs of our students
explicit
shared understanding of the focus in the school
directs professional learning opportunities for themselves and staff
there is research-based evidence that the substance of the professional learning enhances teaching/learning and it is
displayed for everyone to see
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
Classrooms and
Schools
Professional Learning - Knowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Enabling Professional Learning
Student Learning,
Engagement and Success
Changes in
Thinking and
Practices in
Classrooms and
Schools
Professional Learning - Knowledge
Creation and Sharing
Formal and Informal
Instructional Leaders
Collaborative Inquiry that Challenges
Thinking and Practice
Clear and Defensible
Learning Foci for Students,
Teachers and Leaders
Networked Learning
Communities
Professional Learning
Community In School
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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1.What knowledge and
skills do our students need?
2. What knowledge and skills do we
need as professionals
within this initiative?
5. What has been the impact of our
changed actions?
4. Engage students
in new learning experiences
3. Deepen professional knowledge and refine skills by engaging in further professional
learning
Timperley, Wilson, Barrar & Fung, (2008) Professional Learning and Professional Development: Best Evidence Synthesiswww.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/ibes/15341
From student learning to professional learning
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Beware of Activity Traps
Those “doings” that, while well intentioned, are not needs-based and divert resources (human and material) away from the school improvement focus
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Joint Work that Challenges Thinking & Practice involves:
Regularly challenging one another’s assumptions about our practice
Being receptive to feedback from colleagues
Talking openly with colleagues about differing views, opinions, values
Dealing openly with professional conflicts that arise
Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Collaborative Inquiry – 7 Key Elements
1.Creating context2. Engaging in “question-driven” inquiry3. Generating working theories4. Critical evaluation5. Searching for new information6. Engagement in deepening inquiry7. Shared expertise
Hakkarainen et al. (2004)
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Impactful Leadership Dimensions (Robinson, 2009)
Establishing goals and expectations (ES=0.42)– Includes the setting, communicating, and monitoring of
learning goals, standards, and expectations, and the involvement of staff and others in the process so that there is clarity and consensus about goals.
Strategic resourcing (ES=0.31)– Involves aligning resource selection and allocation to priority
teaching goals.
Planning, coordinating and evaluating teaching and the curriculum (ES=0.42)– Direct involvement in teaching through regular classroom
visits and the provision of feedback to teachers. Direct oversight of curriculum through school-wide coordination across classes and grades and alignment to school goals.Aporia Consulting Ltd. 2011
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Impactful Leadership Dimensions (Robinson, 2007)
Promoting and participating in teacher learning and development (ES=0.84)– Leadership that not only promotes but directly
participates with teachers in formal and informal professional learning.
Ensuring an orderly and supportive environment (ES=0.27)– Protecting time for teaching and learning by
reducing external pressures and interruptions, and establishing an orderly and supportive environment both inside and outside classrooms.
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0.84
0.42
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0.42
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5. Ensuring an Orderly andSupportive Environment
4. Promoting and Participating inTeacher Learning and
Development
3. Planning, Coordinating andEvaluating Teaching and the
Curriculum
2. Resourcing Strategically
1. Establishing Goals andExpectations
Effect Size
FIVE DIMENSIONS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP(Robinson et al., 2009)
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Role of an Instructional Leader
To be the lead learner – not the lead knower To create the conditions where teachers
embrace the problem of practice To participate in their own learning with
colleagues who have the same learning focus
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Differentiation of support
Great to excellent Good to great Adequate to good Awful to adequate
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Nodes, Threads, Knots, and Nets
Church et al., 2002
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3 C’s of Learning Communities:
Create
Collaborate
Celebrate