1 System Implementation and Monitoring: Regional Session Day 1 Winter, 2013 Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca

Goals Inquire and co-learn through sharing evidence of district implementation (practising, supporting, monitoring, reflecting and revising) Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking

Day 1 9:00 – 12:00 Welcome & Mind Sets Monitoring District monitoring of SIM plans within-teams (sharing of artefacts) 12:45 – 3:30 Inquiry District Planning time 3:00  Junior Math Rep Meeting Agenda Day 2 8:30 – 12:00 Welcomes A Principal Voice Breakout #1 Planning time 12:45 – 3:00 Breakout #2 Planning time

Ripples

Norms All voices are heard. Our norms… Truly take turns and listen Have the right to pass

Logistical and Thinking Template

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Student Engagement On your own, take 1 minute to jot personal notes or to make a comment on TodaysMeet. You will have time later to talk as a team

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David Perkins On your own, take 2 minutes to jot personal notes or to make a comment on TodaysMeet. You will have time later to talk as a team

Mind-Sets and Equitable Education Read. What connections do you make? What opportunities do you see? When you have finished reading, discuss as a team.

Team Discussion How might the ideas presented in these 3 pieces influence your work? How might a ‘growth mindset’ be cultivated?

Norms All voices are heard. Our norms… Truly take turns and listen Have the right to pass

The Barrie Region VoiceThread

VoiceThread What is it? What might be some benefits?? Clip with Student-Parent conference using VoiceThread…. download from

Accessing VoiceThread The urls are posted on SIM.abel.yorku.ca in the tab titled ‘TodaysMeet and VoiceThread Instructions for VoiceThread are also posted on the SIM website.

Mindsets What are the challenges and opportunities for students and educators that arise through different mind-sets?

Why monitor? When? Who? For what purpose? How do we know it is making a difference? Co-thinking About Monitoring

“We must, in other words, become adept at learning. We must become able not only to transform our institutions, in response to changing situations and requirements; we must invent and develop institutions which are ‘learning systems’, that is to say, systems capable of bringing about their own continuing transformation.” - Donald Schon

Who is learning what? How will we know? Why this learning? How is student learning impacting classroom, school and system? Monitoring the Learning of an Organization

Key Questions When Analysing Data Purpose: How is the data useful? Description: What are the patterns/items of interest that you notice from this data? Limitations: What are the limitations of this data? Inferences and Questions: What can we infer from this data? What further questions does this data generate? Next Steps: What further data do we need to better understand our learning? Considerations When Monitoring

ActionUnderstanding Impact Further Considerations When Monitoring

Actions: What actions and monitoring process have you described? Outcomes: What observable outcomes or actions will be monitored? Monitoring the Learning of a Learning Organization

Reflecting on Monitoring Learning Across Contexts Learning at the Student Level (room ) Pedagogical Documentation Example: My Many Musings on Life and Learning Learning at the School Level (room) Quality Indicators for Assessing Your Own Inquiry excerpt from the Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research Example: The Open Office Learning at the School Level (room) Excerpts from Rethinking Scale, Cynthia Coburn Example: Culture of Yes

Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning How might pedagogical documentation support monitoring? Pedagogical Documentation Monograph

Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning Classroom Educator Blog: My Many Musings on Life and Learning How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning Classroom Educator Blog: My Many Musings on Life and Learning inform-instruction/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning Excerpt from: The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning School Leader Blog: The Open Office How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning School Leader Blog: The Open Office How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning Excerpts from Rethinking Scale, Cynthia Coburn How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning System Leader Blog: Culture of Yes How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work?

Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning How is this blog an example of monitoring? How might this apply to your work? System Leader Blog: Culture of Yes

Monitoring within the SIM Plan Review the monitoring section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder? How do the artefacts you have brought contribute to these understandings?

Lunch – 12:15 – 1:00

Why inquiry? When? How do we know it is making a difference? What are your wonders? Co-thinking About Inquiry

Allan Luke How does a repertoire of pedagogy support learning? Download from the video tab of SIM.abel.yorku.ca or directly from

Why is a repertoire essential for today’s learner? How might this repertoire support an inquiry habit of mind? Allan Luke states that we build a repertoire of strategies.

Continuing Thinking About Inquiry

Compare and Contrast

In a primary classroom. Describe the elements of inquiry that you notice as identified in the frameworks. Full webcast available at for-learning-mathematicshttp:// for-learning-mathematics Download from the video tab of SIM.abel.yorku.ca or directly from

In the Primary Classroom In the Third Teacher monograph, page 6, review the math processes. As you watch the remainder of the grade 2 classroom, identify evidence of student learning as defined within the 7 Math processes

In an Intermediate Classroom Identify and discuss evidence of student thinking and learning through one of the following. School Effectiveness Framework (Aurora) Achievement Chart – Language and Science (Oakridges) The Four Roles for the Literate Learner, Third Teacher - page 7 (Main Room) Curricula (from the internet (Stouffville Room)

Selection from Learning is the Work webcast at dex.shtml Grade 8 clip shown at SIM-

Influence of Inquiry How does student inquiry influence the outer rings? Student Inquiry

Student Voice Download from the video tab of SIM.abel.yorku.ca or directly from

End of Day 1 Comments Hot breakfast at 7:45 8:30 start time Please organize the table materials At 3:00, please excuse the Junior Math Reps who will meet in the Stouffville Room.

49 System Implementation and Monitoring: Welcome to Day 2 Winter, 2013 Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca

Goals Inquire and co-learn through sharing evidence of district implementation (practising, supporting, monitoring, reflecting and revising) Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking

A Principal’s Narrative How might these ideas support student, classroom, school and system learning?

A Principal’s Narrative Download from the video tab of SIM.abel.yorku.ca or directly from

A Principal’s Narrative How might these ideas support student, classroom, school and system learning? TodaysMeet.com/BarrieRegionSIM

Importance of Sharing

Sphere of Influence: Learning from Each Other Morning Regional Breakouts

Guiding Questions Under the umbrella of monitoring within your sphere of influence… how does your artefact / anecdote represent / illustrate the impact the implementation of your SIM plan? how does your artefact/anecdote influence/inform next steps?

Team Reflection: Rethink, Revise, Remove What did you learn from your conversations with colleagues that can inform the evolution of your SIM plan? Lunch: 11:30 – 12:15

Lunch, 11:30 – 12:15 As much as eating a healthy lunch, it’s important to actually take a break from the morning’s activities to consolidate your thoughts, particularly if your work demands concentration. Kumud Gandhi

Breakout Learnings How might the ideas from this breakout support student, classroom, school and system learning?

Content Area Breakouts Afternoon breakouts designed regionally.

Consolidating our Learning How might the ideas from this breakout support student, classroom, school and system learning?

Please complete/submit individual feedback forms Please help our lead board by… -taking your name out of your nametag and place the string in the nametag holder -Organizing the table materials Welcome to take any leftover handouts Invitation: visit Todays Meet /VoiceThread (via sim.abel.yorku.ca) Spring SIM dates posted in the Calendar section of SIM.abel.yorku.ca

63 Team Planning Time Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca