Focused Conversations with Critical Friends Connecting four pillars of CAMPPP Selecting area of personal inquiry Reflecting on your experience, personal goals Your GAINS from CAMPPP

‘Focused Conversations with Critical Friends’ Goals DAY 1: Making Sense of what a focused conversation is Selecting and applying tools to engage in a Focused Conversation about the creation of a personal product Applying focused conversation strategies to establish personal goals and expert group goals Reflecting on focused conversations

Four Corners Big Ideas Student Struggles Important Mathematics Differentiating Instruction through Questioning

Product Choice Lesson (or unit) design Open Questions Parallel Tasks Goals for a unit (or lesson)

GO ! Select your pillar. Find 1 or 2 friends who have a similar product goal. Come back to the table and sit together.

Critical Friends Conversations- ‘another set of eyes and ears’ Flows from Coaching Initiative Similar to Lesson Study Examines classroom practice Builds process norms Focuses on strategies to develop learning goals Collects evidence of learning Provides mutual support and honest critical feedback

Example/Non-example The conversation IS about improving the product of your choice to improve student learning. It is NOT about improving the teacher or the teaching, although a teacher's practice may change and grow as an additional outcome.

‘Focused Conversations’ Goals Making Sense of what a focused conversation is Selecting and applying tools to engage in a Focused Conversation Making sense of what a Big Idea is Reasoning about instructional decisions and strategies using a big ideas lens Applying an understanding of Big Ideas of a content area to develop DI strategies Connecting the core professional learnings of CAMPPP to create personalized products with networks of critical friends

Critical Friend Practices Paraphrasing Clarifying Interpreting Probing Instructing

Practicing the Practices Create mutual trust Use reflections of sessions Use Question Stem cards Use the Math CAMPPP pillars on the placemat to help you focus your conversation Reflect on the distribution of cards

Role Play

Norms Active listening No cross-talk Everyone's opinion has value Honour the clock All electronic communication devices are turned off

Final Product Begin to work on group’s ‘take-away’ –Lesson (or unit) –Open questions –Parallel tasks –Goal setting (unit or lesson)

Sharing Find a new ‘friend’ to share your group’s goal for the week and how it relates to your own personal goals Repeat with a new friend Repeat one more time

Exit Card An important thing about focused conversations with critical friends is…