1. Building Professional Capital to Enhance Student Learning
System Implementation and Monitoring (SIM)
June 2016 1

2. Session Goals
To enhance understanding about investing in and building professional capital to reduce in-school variability in student achievement and well-being, and to increase understanding of effective collaboration to assist teachers with their practice in mathematics.
To enhance understanding about creating conditions for shared leadership. 2

3. In School Variability
“… too much discussion is focused on between-school differences when the greatest issue is the difference within schools.”
“There are many causes of the variance within schools, but one of the more important (and one that we have some influence to reduce) is the variability in the effectiveness of teachers. This does not mean that all teachers are bad; it means that there is much variability among teachers in the effect that they have on student learning.”
(Hattie, J., What Doesn’t Work in Education: The Politics of Distraction, 2015) 3

4. Click on link to access video

5. Minds On
Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (2012)
How does this messaging affect your thinking about effective collaboration as a means to addressing variability in teacher practice and student achievement?
Share your thinking in the Adobe Connect Chat Pod. 5

6. Professional Capital Framework
PC = f (HC, SC, DC)
PC = Professional Capital f = function of
HC or Human Capital = the quality of the individual educators
SC or Social Capital = is expressed in the interactions and relationships among staff that support a common cause
DC or Decisional Capital = puts the wisdom and expertise of human and social capital to effective use
(Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M., The Power of Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School, 2012) 6 6

7. Looking Closer at Social Capital
Social capital is where the following is built and is ultimately where the change in culture begins and is sustained through:
Trust
Collaboration
Collective responsibility
Mutual assistance
Professional networks
Fostering social capital promotes:
Deep professional learning communities
Relationships
Shared language
Collaborative tools
Collective rewards 7

8. “Use the group to change the group.”
…schools with high social capital showed positive achievement outcomes.
…teachers with low human capital who happened to be working in a school with higher social capital got better outcomes than those in schools with lower social capital. Being in a school around others who are working effectively rubs off on teachers and engages them.
Human and social capital are both important, but human capital is not as influential as social capital as a lead strategy. To enact change faster and more effectively, to reduce variation in effective teaching in a school or between and among schools in terms of networks, our advice is to use social capital. Use the group to change the group. This means developing how teachers as a team or group can best identify and respond to the needs of individual students.
(Hargreaves, A. and Fullan, M., The Power of Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School, 2012)

9. PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM Worthwhile Mathematics Tasks Non-Threatening
Classroom
Environment
Classroom
Discourse
Tools and
Representations
Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics/Pangarau by Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw, (2007).

10. Enhancing the Pedagogical System through Investing in and Building Social Capital
There is conclusive evidence that quality teaching is a joint enterprise involving mutual relationships and system level processes that are shared by school personnel. Research has provided clear evidence that effective pedagogy is founded on the material, systems, human and emotional support, and resourcing provided by school leaders as well as the collaborative efforts of teachers to make a difference for all learners.
(Anthony, G. and Walshaw, M., Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics/Pangarau, 2007, p. 3)

11. Pulling It Together As a Team: Enhancing Collaborative Expertise
System Leader
Classroom Educator
Principal

12. Pulling It Together As a Team: Enhancing Collaborative Expertise

13. Social Capital: Self-Assessment Tool13

14. Social Capital: Self-Assessment Tool
After completing the self-assessment tool independently, please discuss the results.
What are areas of particular strength?
What do you see as key areas for intentional attention
and improvement?
Is there a way you and/or your team can leverage what
you are strong at to strengthen the areas you need to improve?
Please record your thoughts in the chat pod.

16. Find all the resources from this session at
We are pleased to let you know that all the resources from today’s session, including this live recording Adobe Connect production on the SIM site. At Thank you again for the opportunity to learn and interact with you today.