1. Instructional Leadership
CP & ER to maybe speak now if they have been very very good and quiet
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2. The Lowther Hall Story 2006 Appointed 2006 Learning Teams (ongoing)
2006 Executive Strategic Planning Retreat
2007 The Qualities of the Lowther Hall Girl
2008 Teaching and Learning Plan 2009 – 2011
2011 Teaching and Learning Policy
2011 Professional Development Process
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3. Clear Shared Vision: The Qualities of the Lowther Girl
Cards – staff to develop own vision of qualities
Ideas sorted & grouped
Further thinking
Drawings to tease out thinking
Sticky notes s
Documentation
Final set of 12 qualities
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5. She is optimistic and has a sense of hope for the future
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6. Clear Shared Vision: Teaching and Learning Plan
Current status
Drawings with whole staff
Feedback from leadership group
External landscape
Readings for leadership group
Development of vision for future
Brainstorm with whole staff – protocol
Refinement and grouping by leadership group
Presentation of draft for comment
Launch of plan
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7. Use of protocols
Facilitative leadership: crucial components of professional communities of practice
Focus on student learning
Deprivatisation of practice
Collaboration
Shared norms and values
Reflective dialogue
K.S. Louis, 1996
Models the desired behaviours and norms
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8. Teaching and Learning Plan
5 Priorities:
Pedagogy
Curriculum planning and design
Assessment and reporting
ICT
Collaboration
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9. Teaching and Learning Plan 2009-2011
Pedagogy
To develop shared and clearly articulated understandings about effective teaching based on shared and clearly articulated understandings about how students learn and the needs of different learners.
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10. Teaching and Learning Plan 2009-2011
Curriculum planning and design
To develop shared understandings and practices based on the Understanding by Design model
Assessment and Reporting
To develop and implement assessment and reporting practices and processes which are consistent, which promote and accurately reflect relevant 21st century student learning outcomes and which are transparent for parents.
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11. Teaching and Learning Plan 2009-2011
ICT
To develop and implement ICT pedagogies which promote student learning outcomes relevant for the 21st century
Collaboration
To embed collaborative practices of teachers to improve teaching and learning
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12. Outcomes so far Culture of continuous improvement
Staff are more focussed on improving student learning outcomes
Shared belief about what constitutes good teaching
Data has become central to planning and delivering the curriculum and assessing its success
Mixed academic results
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13. Questions?
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