School Leadership Masterclass ¤ Macquarie, NSW, AUSTRALIA

8th August 2017 pasi_sahlberg

Building teacher collaboration

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Myths, facts and next practices

Part I

Research: investigation aimed at the discovery and

interpretation of facts

Fact: something that has actual existence

Myth: a widely held but false belief or idea

“We now only rarely discover facts for evidence, instead, we download them.”

- Jill Lepore (The New Yorker, March 2016)

Myths or Facts?

1

myth fact “The most important single factor in improving quality of education is teachers.”

2

myth fact “Low-ability teachers perform as

well as teachers of average ability if they have strong social capital in

their school.”

2 “Crea&ng  condi&ons  and  school  structures  that  facilitate  the  transmission  and  sharing  of  knowledge  among  teachers,  allowing  teachers  to  work  together  effec&vely,  and  capitalizing  on  what  we  know  about  how  educators  learn  and  improve.”      “The  studies  also  show  how  social  dynamics  influence  the  speed,  depth,  and  success  with  which  any  new  idea  is  implemented,  and  how  policies  enacted  without  adequate  considera&on  of  their  impact  on  the  social  fabric  of  schools  can  produce  unintended  nega&ve  consequences.”  

“The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality

of its teachers.”

3

myth fact

3

5’ conversation

Part II

Three geometries of collaboration in school

Human capital LEADERSHIP: Professional Capital 1

Decisional capital Social capital

Professional Capital  

Autonomy

SCHOOL CULTURE: Trust 2

Creativity Time

Trust  

Expertice

Positive social interdependency PEDAGOGY: Cooperative Learning 3

Individual responsibility

Face-to-face interaction Social skills

Group processing Cooperative Learning  

Finland

5’ conversation

Part III

Conclusion

1 Don’t download facts,

discover them.

2 When going gets tough,

loosen the grip.

3 Celebrate failure.

THANK YOU!

C O R W I N I M P A C T L E A D E R S H I P S E R I E S

F i n n i s h E D L e a d e r s h i p F O U R I D E A S T O I M P R O V E S C H O O L S

PASI SAHLBERG