Enlisting Support for Lesson Study Jeanne Harmon, Executive Director, Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession NCOSP Learning Community Forum May 21, 2005

Continuum of Collaboration Pre-initiation Initiation Developing Sustaining »Rick DuFour

Collaborative Culture Rate your school or department Find your place in line AFTER we fold the line, talk with your partner about one challenge you face in establishing lesson study in your school or department

Why? Throughout our ten-year study, whenever we found an effective school or an effective department within a school, without exception that school or department has been a part of a collaborative professional learning community. Milbury McLaughlin

How to get there? Barriers - in your setting, what (and who) are the barriers to establishing lesson study as a means to increase collaborative culture? Three minutes to think, three minutes each to share in a triad

How to get there? Supports - In your setting, what supports exist that can help you establish lesson study as a means to increase collaborative culture? Three minutes to think, three minutes each to share in a triad

Use the research… Throughout our ten-year study, whenever we found an effective school or an effective department within a school, without exception that school or department has been a part of a collaborative professional learning community. Milbury McLaughlin

Professional Culture Shared norms and values Focus on student learning Col-laboration De-privatization of teaching Reflective dialogue Louis, Marks and Kruse, 1996

Effective Leadership Teams  Focus on the solution to a problem, not on an innovation  Have activists or facilitators engaged  Develop a “whole school” perspective  Build ownership of the problem  Define themselves as leaders  Have administrative support to meet and do their work Eisenhower Regional Alliance, 2000

Be political What’s the problem you are trying to solve? How does lesson study help? Focus on student learning, student achievement, student benefits Give people a choice Aggressively seek resources, but move forward

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