System Implementation and Monitoring

Regional Session

London West

Day One

Winter, 2014

Resources are available at

sim.abel.yorku.ca

Agenda Day 1

Day 1 of Winter SIM is a monitoring experience• What you told us• Student Voice• Monitoring Through Implementation• Monitoring Moment• Lunch• Breakout: Cross-board, role-alike sharing• Team consolidation

You told us …

For Winter K-12 SIM you requested:• Growth mindsets, grit, resilience• Cross-board, like-role sharing• Monitoring: what are other boards monitoring and

how are they doing it• Time for discussion• Articles and videos• Grade 9 applied strategies• Interventions in mathematics• Descriptive feedback as part of monitoring• Use of qualitative data

Goals

• Inquire and co-learn about implementation and monitoring of your plan within your learning team

• Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking

• Build our capacity to monitor our progress and impact

• Consider how educator and student mind-sets influence our actions

• Support coherence building by connecting the work of the province and district with the schools

Student Voice

Scott Johnson,

Principal Holy Trinity Catholic School

St. Clair CDSB

Video – Student Voice

“The power of positive teacher-student relationships is critical for learning to occur.” p. 25 SEF

Team Conversation

• How is student voice a source of evidence and how can it be used as part of the monitoring process?

• In your role, how are you paying attention to student voice and how is it informing your work?

“The single biggest factor in whether  students try or give up, leave or stay is their sense that somebody in the school knows who they are and cares about what happens to them”

Steven Katz - Monitoring

Engage in collective learning around challenges of practice so that understanding of those challenges grows deeper. Through investigation proposed solutions emerge that are then tested/monitored to see if they help. We want to see evidence of a permanent change in thinking and behaviour.

Team Time

Complete the Monitoring Moment chart in preparation for sharing this afternoon.

Please use dark markers so that your work can easily be read by the other teams who will be visiting your chart.

Decide which member of your team will stay with your chart to briefly share important learnings and to answer questions.

Breakout room allocation for ‘Monitoring Moment’ work

• Kensington 1 – Thames Valley DSB• Kensington 2 – Greater Essex County DSB• Manchester – London District CSB• London A – Avon Maitland DSB

• Bristol C – Windsor-Essex CDSB

(main room) St. Clair CDSB

Huron Perth CDSB

Lambton Kent DSB

Lunch 12:00-12:45

Gallery Walk as a Team

• As a team move from chart to chart • Use post-its to add suggestions, questions or

comments for each chart - (leave on the charts)• Use post-its to jot down ideas to bring back to your

team• In preparation for discussions this afternoon, please

take note of your discoveries, wonderings and questions.

Questions to Consider• What is the connection between what you heard and what

you are doing?• What are the implications for your role in the monitoring

and implementation of your plan?• How are you involving all of your stakeholders?

- Whose voice is missing?

- How might you invite them into the discussion and planning? • What are your next steps in preparation for the Spring

SIM session?

Cross-Board Like-Role Conversations

Take your own Monitoring Moment worksheet + your notes re discoveries, wonderings and questions to your break-out room.

Role Breakout LocationSupervisory Officers Kensington 1

Elementary Administrators

Kensington 2

Secondary Administrators

Manchester

System Program Support Staff

London A

Questions to Consider• What is the connection between what you heard and what

you are doing?• What are the implications for your role in the monitoring

and implementation of your plan?• How are you involving all of your stakeholders?

- Whose voice is missing?

- How might you invite them into the discussion and planning? • What are your next steps in preparation for the Spring

SIM session?

Team De-Brief

• Share learning from break-outs

• Add information to your team chart.

• Review the questions on the Monitoring graphic

to determine if there are questions relevant to your

work that still need to be answered.

Breakout Sessions for Day 2Title Presenter Location

Deepening Math Understanding in Thames Valley

Thames Valley DSB Kensington 1

Networking Schools to Reflect, Plan, Learn and Monitor:  The Greater Essex County DSB’s OFIP Journey

Greater Essex County DSB Kensington 2

The Student Success School Support Initiative

Windsor Essex CDSB Manchester

K-12 Numeracy - Our Collaborative Learning Process:Intermediate Math

Avon Maitland DSB London A

System Learning Stories Dr. David Cameron, Student Achievement OfficerResearch Evaluation and Data Management Team, Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat

Bristol C