System Implementation and Monitoring Regional Session London West Day One Winter, 2014 Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca

Agenda Day 1 Day 1 of Winter SIM is a monitoring experience What you told us Student Voice Monitoring Through Implementation Monitoring Moment Lunch Breakout: Cross-board, role-alike sharing Team consolidation

You told us … For Winter K-12 SIM you requested: Growth mindsets, grit, resilience Cross-board, like-role sharing Monitoring: what are other boards monitoring and how are they doing it Time for discussion Articles and videos Grade 9 applied strategies Interventions in mathematics Descriptive feedback as part of monitoring Use of qualitative data

Goals Inquire and co-learn about implementation and monitoring of your plan within your learning team Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking Build our capacity to monitor our progress and impact Consider how educator and student mind-sets influence our actions Support coherence building by connecting the work of the province and district with the schools

Student Voice Scott Johnson, Principal Holy Trinity Catholic School St. Clair CDSB

Video – Student Voice “The power of positive teacher-student relationships is critical for learning to occur.” p. 25 SEF

Team Conversation How is student voice a source of evidence and how can it be used as part of the monitoring process? In your role, how are you paying attention to student voice and how is it informing your work? “The single biggest factor in whether students try or give up, leave or stay is their sense that somebody in the school knows who they are and cares about what happens to them”

Steven Katz - Monitoring Engage in collective learning around challenges of practice so that understanding of those challenges grows deeper. Through investigation proposed solutions emerge that are then tested/monitored to see if they help. We want to see evidence of a permanent change in thinking and behaviour.

Team Time Complete the Monitoring Moment chart in preparation for sharing this afternoon. Please use dark markers so that your work can easily be read by the other teams who will be visiting your chart. Decide which member of your team will stay with your chart to briefly share important learnings and to answer questions.

Breakout room allocation for ‘Monitoring Moment’ work Kensington 1 – Thames Valley DSB Kensington 2 – Greater Essex County DSB Manchester – London District CSB London A – Avon Maitland DSB Bristol C – Windsor-Essex CDSB (main room) St. Clair CDSB Huron Perth CDSB Lambton Kent DSB

Lunch 12:00-12:45

Gallery Walk as a Team As a team move from chart to chart Use post-its to add suggestions, questions or comments for each chart - (leave on the charts) Use post-its to jot down ideas to bring back to your team In preparation for discussions this afternoon, please take note of your discoveries, wonderings and questions.

Questions to Consider What is the connection between what you heard and what you are doing? What are the implications for your role in the monitoring and implementation of your plan? How are you involving all of your stakeholders? - Whose voice is missing? - How might you invite them into the discussion and planning? What are your next steps in preparation for the Spring SIM session?

Cross-Board Like-Role Conversations Take your own Monitoring Moment worksheet + your notes re discoveries, wonderings and questions to your break-out room. RoleBreakout Location Supervisory OfficersKensington 1 Elementary Administrators Kensington 2 Secondary Administrators Manchester System Program Support Staff London A

Questions to Consider What is the connection between what you heard and what you are doing? What are the implications for your role in the monitoring and implementation of your plan? How are you involving all of your stakeholders? - Whose voice is missing? - How might you invite them into the discussion and planning? What are your next steps in preparation for the Spring SIM session?

Team De-Brief Share learning from break-outs Add information to your team chart. Review the questions on the Monitoring graphic to determine if there are questions relevant to your work that still need to be answered.

Breakout Sessions for Day 2 TitlePresenterLocation Deepening Math Understanding in Thames Valley Thames Valley DSBKensington 1 Networking Schools to Reflect, Plan, Learn and Monitor: The Greater Essex County DSB’s OFIP Journey Greater Essex County DSBKensington 2 The Student Success School Support Initiative Windsor Essex CDSBManchester K-12 Numeracy - Our Collaborative Learning Process: Intermediate Math Avon Maitland DSBLondon A System Learning StoriesDr. David Cameron, Student Achievement Officer Research Evaluation and Data Management Team, Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat Bristol C