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Lessons Learned:Responding to the Needs of All Students
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Kurtis HewsonFaculty AssociateUniversity of Lethbridge
Lorna AdrianSchool Improvement Facilitator
Livingstone Range School Division
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Supporting Schools
Calvin Christian School
Essential Questions• What assumptions about a school’s
literacy culture need to be confronted before moving forward?
• What lessons learned can assist in the strategic planning when establishing a collaborative response model?
Leadership Tools
Confronting your School’s Culture
Essential Cultural Shifts – Change Index
1 – minor shift (already there)4 – major shift (long way to go)
Review seven shifts
Opportunity to reflect, utilizing the change index
Share and discuss following all seven
Leadership ToolsEssential Cultural Shifts Analysis Key Elements of Research-Based
Interventions
Essential Cultural Shifts
Support for students is reactive, as
problems arise
Support for students is proactive upon entry (school
or grade progression) Leadership ToolsReflection on School-
Wide Student Transitions
Essential Cultural Shifts Focus on overall
school performance
Focus on individual student performance
Essential Cultural Shifts
Embedded collaboration informal and
focused on events and activities
Formalized embedded collaboration focused on
student learning and progress
Essential Cultural Shifts
Assessments primarily
summative with limited impact on
learning
Ongoing formative assessment system that
drives instruction and programming
Essential Cultural Shifts
Student progress and programming
is the sole responsibility of the
teacher
Student progress and programming is the responsibility
of a collaborative team
Essential Cultural Shifts At-risk students
pulled out of core instruction
At-risk students receive interventions that are both inclusive during core instruction and additional time and
instruction
Essential Cultural Shifts
Interventions for struggling students are dependent on
the individual teacher
Interventions for struggling students are school-wide and
systematic
Share and DiscussOne minor shift for your school
One major shift for your school
Lessons Learned
• Related to change theory
• Observed in our experience and in discussion with other schools
• Handout – notes and reflect
Lessons Learned
Loose/Tight LeadershipDefined by DuFour
Create the banks of the river but let the water flow – McTighe
Leadership ToolsWhat Principals Need to
Know About Reading Instruction
Lessons Learned
Ready…Fire…AimBehaviours then beliefs
We will adjust and refine – perfection not required
Get started!
Lessons Learned
Dilemmas Not ProblemsRobert Evans – 7 Secrets of the Savvy
School Leader
Car vs. teenager
Realization is key
Lessons Learned
Critical MassDon’t water the rocks (Whitaker)
Recognize, cultivate and honour enthusiasm
Find the champions
Lessons Learned
Principal InvolvementModel and support what is most important
– work elbow to elbow
Supervise teams, not teachers
Lessons Learned
Time To Let People Arrive
Focus on process not product
Top down/bottom up
Lessons Learned
Synthesize TheoryFit your school’s context
Allow teams to be well-read
Informed risk-taking
Lessons Learned
Implementation Dip is Real
Explicit discussion
Awareness to overcome, not succumb
Leadership ToolsThe Implementation Dip
Lessons Learned
Pilot EverythingStart with the champions
Work out the kinks
Consider a target group
Questions/Comments
Kurtis HewsonLorna Adrian
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