Learning across Transitions
What evidence do we need?
How can we collect it?
How can we synthesise it?
Learning Together
Do
StudyAct
Plan
Shared purpose
What’s at the heart of the problem of transitions?
What are our shared design principles?
What’s our shared methodology for improvement?
What is our measurement model?
Test Fast
Fail Fast And Early
Learn And Improve
Explicate Improvement Hypotheses
Try out an Im-provement Protocol
Measure Outcomes
Analyze Results
Revise, Refine
Relate
Analyze Causes
Assess Current System
ACT
PLAN
STUDY
DO
An Improvement Cycle
PLANChoosing
Observing & Describing
Generating Questions
Uncovering Stories
Mapping
DODesigning
improvement protocol
Try out improvement protocol
STUDYMeasure change
Analyse Results
ACTRevise, Refine, Collaborate.
Present and Re-develop
PDSA
Looking Ahead: learners, leaders, champions
MeasurableImprovement
at Scale
HunchesTheories
Ideas
More Effective Practices, D
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Understandings DATA
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Network expansion, implementation under more varied conditions 2014 →
full scale, try out, 2013/14 →
small scale testing, 2012/13 →
Moving simultaneously on Multiple sub-problems
90 day cycles as resources
Hunches Theories Ideas
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Measurable System Improvement: New Knowledge and Know How
What are we measuring?
We’re doing something different for a purpose
What are the student outcomes we are looking for?
student self-directed learning
Self-directed learning is complex
Fuzziness Incompleteness Randomness
Our critical friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBl6ALNh18Q
Jurgen Habermasb 1929
Empirical Analytical Interests
• Based on instrumental values• Technical interest in control• Expressed through strategic rationality• Favours use of numbers• Generalisations• Means end / cause effect approach• Prediction • Reduction
Hermeneutical Interests
• Based on values of open dialogue• Practical interest in free communication• Expressed in hermeneutical rationality• Interpretive approaches• Qualitative methodologies• Informing judgement• Case studies for explanatory purpose
Emancipatory Interests
• Expressed in emancipatory rationality• Based on values of transformation &
empowerment• Interest in freedom from distortion at personal
and political levels• Critical social science• Socio-historical & narrative approaches• Action research to improve practice
we are the new Renaissance
THE SCHOOL AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY
Leadership Learning
Teacher Learning
Student Learning
School as complex system
Three learning
processes focused on
student learning and achievement
Evidence Hub
for knowledge sharing and harnessingcollective intelligence
Learning Together
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