Chic Foote Helix Consulting chic.foote@helix.ac.nz From Vision to 21 st C Learning Community

Chic Foote

Helix Consulting chic.foote@helix.ac.nz

From Vision to 21st C Learning Community

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Shaping the Learning Landscape

Backwards Design

Unpacking the Vision

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1. The Big Picture – Starting with the End in Mind

Interconnected and Aligned

• Individual

• Teams

• Departments

• Levels

• School wide

• Data Driven • Deep Purposeful Conversations

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Skills

CommunicateCollaborateConnectCreate Think Critically

Literacies

BasicInformationMediaGlobalNetworkDigital Citizenship

With thanks to Silvia Rosenthall Tolisano www.langwitches.com

Fluencies

MediaInfoDigital CitizenshipCollaborationSolutionCreativity

How will you embed these?

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• Laying the foundations• Starting with the end in mind• Identifying the ‘Story’

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• The process in practice• Strategies and Examples• Gap Analysis

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• The Design Process• Key stages• Expected Outcomes & Indicators of Success

Outline for the Day

Shifts in Thinking

• Unconnected thinking

• An environment of isolation

• Perceived reality

• Individual autonomy

• Systems thinking

• Collegiality

• Information driven reality

• Collective autonomy

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Source: Hall, Pete. Simeral Alisa.(2008) Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success. Alexandroa, VA:ASCD

Achieving the “End in Mind”

Specific Responsive

Measurable

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Curriculum Mapping Phases

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Laying the Foundation

• Launching the process

• Maintaining, Sustaining & Integrating the Process

• Advanced Mapping Tasks

Story -

• What’s your story?

• How does your story impact the vision for your learners?

• What strategies enable us to effectively reflect the hopes and dreams of all members of the learning community?

• How might your story inform the development of transfer goals?

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Purposeful

Relevant

Current

Connected

Aligned

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Social

Local

Global

Digital

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Reviewed

Revised

Renewed

Responsive

Direction

Strategic

School Vision

Curriculum MappingInspiring 21st C Learning Teams

Confident, Connected, Actively Involved, Lifelong Learners

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Backwards Design

Reference: Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins. Schooling by Design. ASCD

Examine the Vision – Essential Questions

Establish Expectations -Transference - Understandings

Identify Observable Indicators – Dispositions, Fleuencies, Skills & Knowledge

Differentiate within a department

Differentiate across the levels

Mapping the Foundation

Transfer GoalsBig IdeasUnderstandings

Essential Questions

Knowledge Skills/Dispositions

Design

• Eff ective Professional Inquiry

Context

• Relevant and Embedded

System

• A Comprehensive Approach

Continued Improvement

Source: Darling Hammond, Linda. (2010) The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future Teachers. New York: College Press.

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• Laying the foundations• Starting with the end in mind• Identifying the ‘Story’

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• The process in practice• Strategies and Examples• Gap Analysis

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• The Design Process• Key stages• Expected Outcomes & Indicators of Success

Outline for the Day

Map Indicators for the ‘End in Mind’

Differentiate by level/department

3. Review Map Data

4. Analyse Review Outcomes

Feed forwardPlan for Action

7. Upgrade MapCut? Keep? Create?

6. Immediate orLong Term

Development

Suspend all Judgment

School wide Implementation

1. Individual 2. Common or Mixed Group

5. What does it tell us? What does this mean? What are we going to do with it?

Adjust

Deep ProfessionalInquiry

Purposeful Learning

Conversations

Process

• Begin with a individual review

• Provide a framework for the review feedback

• Establish clear professional inquiry focus / review elements

• Evidence based

• Maps /Documents accessible and transparent

• Time allocated

• Expectations clear

Individual Small Group

Whole Group

Review Process

Protocols

• Teachers have the focus and organisation well in advance

• All judgment suspended

• All contributions accepted

• Outcomes and analysis shared and acted on by all

Attendees Prof Inquiry

Evidence of Success ChallengesBarriers /Puzzles of Practice

Informing Practice

Actions Required Red Flags

Immediate: Long term

Considerations when we Apply the Review Cycle

How is it organised?

How do we gather and collate the information?

How is it fed back?

How is the cycle continued?

Committment

Establish Systems

Support Structures

Time Honoured

Clarity of Expectations – “End in Mind”

Structural

Sequential

Deliberate

Connected

Aligned

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Process and Practices

• Research to inform

• Identify an End in Mind

• Select facilitator

• Establish a core team

• Analayse Current situation

• Identify potential professional inquiry

foci & select

• Plan to build on strengths and

address gaps

• Establish a process and structure

• Embed process in school calendar

• Organisation • Best fit - core team• Reflective practice strategies • Systems for documenting maps• Consistency of

- Processes- Protocols- Messaging- Expectations

• Expected outcomes

• Implementation Strategies

• Documenting all elements of the process

• Steps • Considerations

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• Laying the foundations• Starting with the end in mind• Identifying the ‘Story’

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• The process in practice• Strategies and Examples• Gap Analysis

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• The Design Process• Key stages• Expected Outcomes & Indicators of Success

Outline for the Day

Essential Questions

1. How might curriculum mapping lead to cohesive and empowered learning communities?

2. What is required to establish and sustain a richly engaging learning community for all?

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: Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins. Schooling by Design. ASCD

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What will it Take?

Creating Cohesive Pathways

21C Learning Community

Sustaining Responding

Open Inclusive

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Revise

Renew

Developing New Forms

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Keeping the End in Mind

In An Ever Changing World

Maintain the End in Mind

Future Focused

Lasting Lifelong Impact