Maximizing Learning for All E. Carlson Director of Instruction Education Services, SD #36
May 26, 2015
Maximizing Learning
forAll
E. CarlsonDirector of Instruction
Education Services, SD #36
What is our goal?
Every student receives excellent instruction every day in every class.
Jim Knight
How do we get there?
If people imagine their organizations as an ocean liner and themselves as the leaders, what is their role? (P. Senge)
“The principal is the nerve center of school improvement.”
—Michael Fullan
“The research is irrefutable in concluding that the principal is pivotal when it comes to success.”
—Michael Fullan
Create a
culture of
learning
Schools without a learning culture.
Not static professional development
but lived professional learning.
Lead Learners
• Find someone in the room that you just met yesterday.
• Share with them something new you have been learning in the last six months that you are really excited about.
Relationships are the oxygen of human development.
Peter L. Benson
Relationships are the oxygen of human development.
Peter L. Benson
Create a
culture
of learning
Establish focus together
“The size and prettiness of the plan is inversely related to the quality of action and the impact on student learning.” —Doug Reeves
“Fat plans don’t move.”
—Michael Fullan
Establish focus together
Find and make time
Create a
culture of
learning
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful less you let other people spend it for you.
Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg
Making Time Count
• At your tables, make a list of all the different ways you can provide job-embedded release time for teachers (eg. Common prep time).
• Use chart paper to record your ideas.
Establish focus together
Find and make time
Create a
culture of
learning
Distribute
tools
Toolkit: book studies, webinars, podcasts, on-line videos libraries, co-teaching, protocols, open-space technology, knowledge café, lesson study, teacher inquiry, action research, coaching, professional learning communities …
Tool Talk
• Pick a tool that you’re familiar with as either a participant or the leader using the tool.
• Find a group of 3 or 4 where at least one person is holding a tool that you have never used or experienced.
• In your group describe how the tool was used and its impact on improving student learning at your school.
Closing Thought:
What if theHokey Pokey
ISwhat its all about?
Credits:
• Opening school culture slide graphic by Salvatore Vuono• Creative Commons License Cruise Ship by Ed Yourdon• If I die…http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdhout/4427251342/ by Ron
Houtman• Schools without a learning culture. E. Carlson• Most of the remaining photos courtesy of iStockphotos.