1. Intelligent Responsive System
S.I.M.
Intelligent Responsive
April 30, 2013

2. Learning Goal
To bring a greater awareness of the concept of an “Intelligent Responsive” system from the macro level

3. Prior Knowledge
What do you think of when you hear the term: “Intelligent-Responsive” system?
Discussion item – independently, share with table.

4. What do Effective Districts do?

5. Establish non-negotiable goals for achievement and instruction.
Marzano and Waters (2009)

6. Support staff to learn from each other.
Fullan (2007)

7. Create networks that build capacity because professionals work together to create new knowledge.
Katz, Earl, Jaeger (2009)

8. Develop a culture of defined autonomy.
Marzano and Waters (2009)

9. Provide job-embedded professional learning for leaders and teachers to prepare them for the challenges they face.
Leithwood (2009)

10. Enhances the moral purpose that each member of the staff possesses.
Supports a spirit of professionalism in the organization.
Develops effective leadership throughout the organization.
Hargreaves and Shirley (2009)

11. Insures that all staff feel a sense of academic optimism.
Collective efficacy
Trust
High expectations
Leithwood (2009)

12. In HWDSB, we will -
Strengthen our learning organization
Support leadership development for everyone
Enhance Academic optimism
Create a culture of empowerment, not prescription on the foundation of professionalism

13. Characteristics of a Learning Organization
willingness to learn together
willingness to take risks
willingness to admit what we don’t know
willingness to create new knowledge
Always focusing on what our students need.

14. A learning organization knows that we cannot work in isolation, we focus on improving our instruction because this will make a difference for our students and we are willing to open our doors to each other so we can support, not evaluate how we are serving our students.

15. Ladder of Inference

16. Leadership Development
Enhancing Everyone’s leadership potential
Distribute leadership in a coordinated way
Coordinated distributed leadership is key

17. Academic Optimism
Collective efficacy
Trust
High expectations

18. A culture of empowerment – not prescription, built on a foundation of professionalism.
commitment to students and student learning
professional knowledge
professional practice
leadership in learning communities
on-going professional learning

19. Our goal is that HWDSB will be an effective learning organization that develops leadership in everyone, that enhances academic optimism and creates a culture of empowerment based upon the standards of practice.

20. District Effectiveness Framework

21. District Effectiveness Framework
Core Processes
Supporting Conditions
Approaches to Leadership Development
Relationships

22. RESEARCH

23. The 5 Dimensions
1: Learning-focused partnerships with school principals to deepen principals’ instructional leadership practice.
2: Assistance to the central office–principal partnerships.
3: Reorganizing and re-culturing of each central office unit, to support the central office–principal partnerships and teaching and learning improvement.
4: Stewardship of the overall central office transformation process.
5: Use of evidence throughout the central office to support continual improvement of work practices and relationships with schools.

26. Cultivating a Culture of Co-Learning, Collaboration and Inquiry
LSA Research Article
Cultivating a Culture of
Co-Learning, Collaboration and Inquiry
Dr. Mag Gardner & Dr. John Malloy
Pages 1 and 2
Read pages 1 and 2 of this article and discuss.

27. Prior Knowledge
Now what do you think of when you hear the term: “Intelligent-Responsive” system?