Maximizing learning for all

Maximizing Learning

forAll

E. CarlsonDirector of Instruction

Education Services, SD #36

What is our goal?

Every student receives excellent instruction every day in every class.

Jim Knight

How do we get there?

If people imagine their organizations as an ocean liner and themselves as the leaders, what is their role? (P. Senge)

“The principal is the nerve center of school improvement.”

—Michael Fullan

“The research is irrefutable in concluding that the principal is pivotal when it comes to success.”

—Michael Fullan

Create a

culture of

learning

Schools without a learning culture.

Not static professional development

but lived professional learning.

Lead Learners

• Find someone in the room that you just met yesterday.

• Share with them something new you have been learning in the last six months that you are really excited about.

Relationships are the oxygen of human development.

Peter L. Benson

Relationships are the oxygen of human development.

Peter L. Benson

Create a

culture

of learning

Establish focus together

“The size and prettiness of the plan is inversely related to the quality of action and the impact on student learning.” —Doug Reeves

“Fat plans don’t move.”

—Michael Fullan

Establish focus together

Find and make time

Create a

culture of

learning

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful less you let other people spend it for you.

Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg

Making Time Count

• At your tables, make a list of all the different ways you can provide job-embedded release time for teachers (eg. Common prep time).

• Use chart paper to record your ideas.

Establish focus together

Find and make time

Create a

culture of

learning

Distribute

tools

Toolkit: book studies, webinars, podcasts, on-line videos libraries, co-teaching, protocols, open-space technology, knowledge café, lesson study, teacher inquiry, action research, coaching, professional learning communities …

Tool Talk

• Pick a tool that you’re familiar with as either a participant or the leader using the tool.

• Find a group of 3 or 4 where at least one person is holding a tool that you have never used or experienced.

• In your group describe how the tool was used and its impact on improving student learning at your school.

Closing Thought:

What if theHokey Pokey

ISwhat its all about?

Credits:

• Opening school culture slide graphic by Salvatore Vuono• Creative Commons License Cruise Ship by Ed Yourdon• If I die…http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdhout/4427251342/ by Ron

Houtman• Schools without a learning culture. E. Carlson• Most of the remaining photos courtesy of iStockphotos.