provoking action to make gains student achievment equity public confidence
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Provoking Action to Make Gains
• Student achievment
• Equity
• Public confidence
Leaders Attending• 45 SSLs• 10 SSTs• 40 Superintendents• 55 Teacher leaders• 130 Consultants• 2 Directors• 40 Elementary Administrators• 45 Secondary Administrators• 25 Staff at Faculties of Education• 25 Ministry staff
60 adult and 12 student presenters/facilitators
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Sharing Promising Practices
Sharing Promising Practices
Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people
Sharing Promising Practices
Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people
Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files
Sharing Promising Practices
Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people
Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files
Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect
Sharing Promising Practices
Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people
Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files
Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect
Networked • contact information given• An electronic collaboration site
Sharing Promising Practices
Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people
Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files
Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect
Networked • contact information given• An electronic collaboration site
Supports • frameworks and thinking tools• Readiness conditions, advice
Reaching EVERY Student
by reaching every educator
GAINS is
a learning strategy
Myrna, 1:00 right after lunch
GAINS Metaphor
an education ecosystem
2003-07 Focus in Math
2003-07 Focus in Math
2007-08 Math and Literacy
2007-08 Math and Literacy
Nested Layers of Purposeful Activities
Mathematics Agenda for Action: Grades 7-12, 2007-2017
•Grounding action in research•Strategic decision making based on evidence
Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy
(including ongoing
assessment)
Assessing Status
(Checkpoint)
Who is involved
What we want
What we’re about to do
Criteria for checking progress
Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy
(including ongoing
assessment)
Assessing Status
(Checkpoint)
Who was involved
What we wanted
What we did Status report
What we want
What we’re about to do
Criteria for checking progress
Who is involved
Monitoring and Adjusting
Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy
(including ongoing
assessment)
Assessing Status
(Checkpoint)
Was
Is
Monitoring and Adjusting
Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy
(including ongoing
assessment)
Assessing Status
(Checkpoint)
Who is involved
Alignment
7-12 Literacy
Agenda for Action, 2007-2017
Contracted Work in Pilot Boards and Organizations
Professional Learning
Teaching and LearningExpert
Panel
Think Literacy
2003-07 Literacy
2007-08 Literacy GAINS
Pilot andDemonstration Classrooms
IntegratedLessons
Development
Records of Practice
Field testing
ResearchSynopses
Facilitator GuidesLearning MaterialsAdobe Connect Sessions
in English
2007-08 Literacy GAINS
Pilot andDemonstration Classrooms
Facilitator GuidesLearning MaterialsAdobe Connect Sessions
in Sciencein the ArtsinTechnologicalEducation
IntegratedLessons
Development
Records of Practice
Field testing
ResearchSynopses
2007-08 Literacy GAINS
Literacy Strategies
QuestionsComplexity
Exploratory Research
Indicators
2007-08 Literacy GAINS
Facilitators’Guide
ConditionsAnalysis
Field TestingRecords of
Practice
ToolsResearch
Tools
Video, Guide, Subject-Specific ResourcesResearch
Records of Practice
Research
2007 and beyond…• Literacies for learning• Related domains, e.g. meta-cognition• Literacy and learning strategies
– Affect– Skills – Strategies– Practices
• Implementation conditions• Complexity• Pedagogy of literacy• Research
Agenda for Action10-year Frame
GAINS and Knowledge Animation
powerful connections
Knowledge animation
ways of making knowledge accessible and mobile to promote learning
Memory Stick • Whole LMS library with quick links to:
– Mathematical Processes posters– CLIPS -Fractions– CLIPS - Transforming Periodic Functions– Geometer’s Sketchpad sketches– CIIM Research report– Math-Talk Learning Community Research
• Guide for Administrators• Agendas for Action• Will Richardson’s book excerpt
Connecting Practice and Research shelfTIPS
Print Materials• GAINS Actions graphic
– Nested systems focused on classrooms
• Agendas for Action– Scalable thinking tool
• Promising practices summaries– Consistency of format– Differentiated approaches by boards
• Guides for Administrators– Alignment across literacy and mathematics
Hallmarks of GAINS• Research-based and data-informed
• Consistency
• Alignment
• Scalability
• Nested systems
• Differentiated approaches
• Distributed leadership
• Records of practice
• Deeper and broader levels of support
Leadership is Key• “Leadership is second only to teaching in its
impact on student outcomes. Principals and vice-pricipals play an essential role as school leaders to achieve this impact.”Purpose to Practice: Putting Ontario’s Leadership Framework into Action – A Guide for Scholl and System Leaders
No longer in question what practices are
promising research and evidence are clear
Knowing what we want to do is not the same as knowing how to do it.
Levin & Wien, 2003
It’s a question of “how”
to engage collaborativelyto harness Web 2.0 toolsto foster collaborative relationshipsto adapt promising practices to local readiness
Deeper levels of support
de-privatizing practice at all levels
Records of Practice• Agendas for action • Lesson Study research lessons• Video clips of classroom practices• Video clips of professional learning practices• Research findings• Recordings of Adobe Connect sessions• Application and processing forms• PowerPoints and SMART notebooks• Guides• Synchronous and asynchronous video feeds• Samples of student work
The Power of Video
samples of shifting practice
Observing Protocols • Being explicit
• Being intentional
• Being respectful
• Supporting comments with evidence
• Focusing on learning
• Keeping the goals in mind
• Acquiring permissions
Video Records of Sessions
• Please sign and hand in your consent form!
Hallmarks of GAINS• Research-based and data-informed
• Consistency
• Alignment
• Scalability
• Nested systems
• Differentiated approaches
• Distributed leadership
• Records of practice
• Deeper and broader levels of support
Broader levels of support
Tri- and tetra-levels
GAINS is• a whole-system learning strategy • like an education ecosystem• nested layers of purposeful and aligned
activities• driven by leadership at all levels• about knowledge animation• about tri- and tetra-level relationships• about provoking action• providing access along a continuum in
making necessary shifts
Shift happens
there’s no question about our direction, just the speed
Making GAINS
Growing Accessible Interactive Networked Supports