1. 1 System Implementation and Monitoring: Regional Session Day 1 Winter, 2013 Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca

2. Goals Inquire and co-learn through sharing evidence of district implementation (practising, supporting, monitoring, reflecting and revising) Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking

3. Agenda (slight variations regionally) Day 1 9:00 – 12:00 Welcomes, Mind Sets, Monitoring, Break, Within-team sharing of artefacts 12:45 – 3:30 Inquiry, Break, Within- team Planning time Day 2 8:30 – 11:30 Welcomes, Principal Voice, Breakouts 12:15 – 2:30 Breakouts, Team time

4. Ripples

5. Norms All voices are heard. Our norms… Truly take turns and listen Have the right to pass

6. Logistical and Thinking Template

8. Making Thinking Visible http://todaysmeet.com/OttawaSIM Steps 1&2 Type your name Click on “Join”

9. Making Thinking Visible http://todaysmeet.com/OttawaSIM Steps 3 & 4 Type your message Click on “Say” Option: Tweet at http://today.io/7uoh

10. Student Engagement Insert journey to excellence video www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/videos/itsmyfuture.asp

11. David Perkins Insert david perkins video

12. Mind-Sets and Equitable Education Read. What connections do you make? What opportunities do you see?

13. Team Discussion What are your wonderings? What connections do you make? What opportunities do you see?

14. Voicethread and Mindsets What are the challenges and opportunities that arise through different mind-sets? Using Voicethread, share your thinking. URL: voicethread.com/share/3837748

15. Why monitor? When? Who? For what purpose? How do we know it is making a difference? Co-thinking About Monitoring

16. “We must, in other words, become adept at learning. We must become able not only to transform our institutions, in response to changing situations and requirements; we must invent and develop institutions which are ‘learning systems’, that is to say, systems capable of bringing about their own continuing transformation.” - Donald Schon

17. Who is learning what? How will we know? Why is this learning significant? How is student learning impacting classroom, school and system? Monitoring the Learning of an Organization

18. Key Questions When Analysing Data Purpose: How is the data useful? Description: What are the patterns/items of interest that you notice from this data? Limitations: What are the limitations of this data? Inferences and Questions: What can we infer from this data? What further questions does this data generate? Next Steps: What further data do we need to better understand our learnings? Considerations When Monitoring

19. ActionUnderstanding Impact Further Considerations When Monitoring

20. Actions: What actions and monitoring processes have you described? Outcomes: What observable outcomes or actions will be monitored? Monitoring the Learning of a Learning Organization

21. Reflecting on Monitoring Learning Across Contexts Student Learning (Room ___) Pedagogical Documentation Example: My Many Musings on Life and Learning Professional Learning (Room __ ) The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research excerpt Example: The Open Office System Learning (Room __ ) Excerpts from Rethinking Scale, Cynthia Coburn Example: Culture of Yes

22. Voicethread Insert VT instructions

23. Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning What do you notice about monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you? Pedagogical Documentation Monograph

24. Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning Classroom Educator Blog: My Many Musings on Life and Learning http://adunsiger.com/2012/11/30/my-vision/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

25. Reflections on Monitoring: Student Learning Classroom Educator Blog: My Many Musings on Life and Learning http://adunsiger.com/2012/11/28/using-todaysmeet-to- inform-instruction/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

26. Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning Excerpt from: The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research What do you notice about monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

27. Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning School Leader Blog: The Open Office http://brian-harrison.net/2012/11/22/natural-born-learners/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

28. Reflections on Monitoring: Professional Learning School Leader Blog: The Open Office http://brian-harrison.net/2012/10/14/mathematizing- mathematics/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

29. Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning Excerpts from Rethinking Scale, Cynthia Coburn What do you notice about monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

30. Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning System Leader Blog: Culture of Yes http://cultureofyes.ca/2012/12/04/how-my-learning-changed/ How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you?

31. Reflections on Monitoring: System Learning How is this blog an example of monitoring? What do you notice about this example of monitoring? What do you wonder about monitoring? What are the implications for you? System Leader Blog: Culture of Yes http://cultureofyes.ca/2012/11/19/some-west-van-stories/

32. Monitoring within the SIM Plan Review the monitoring section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder? How do the artefacts you have brought contribute to these understandings?

33. Describing Our Journey Implementation tool from 2010-11 Can this be a useful tool? How has the thinking evolved? Monitoring the Journey

34. Monitoring within the SIM Plan Review the monitoring section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder? How do the artefacts you have brought contribute to these understandings?

35. Lunch

36. Why inquiry? When? How do we know it is making a difference? What are your wonders? Co-thinking About Inquiry

37. Allan Luke How does a repertoire of pedagogy support learning? Insert video

38. Continuing Thinking About Inquiry

39. Compare and Contrast Some suggestions… Discuss with your team Offer an idea on Today’s Meet

40. In the Classroom – First Viewing What do you notice? What do you wonder? Insert grade 2 and grade 8 classroom clip

41. In the Classroom – Second Viewing Identify and discuss evidence of student thinking and learning through one of the following frameworks. School Effectiveness Framework Achievement Chart – Language and Science Mathematics Processes & The Four Roles for the Literate Learner (Third Teacher, pages 6 and 7) Curricula (from the internet)

42. Insert grade 2 and grade 8 classroom clip

43. Influence of Inquiry What ripple effects are you thinking about? Student Inquiry

44. Educator Inquiry within the SIM Plan Review the focus/inquiry section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

45. End of Day 1 Comments Hot breakfast at 7:45 8:30 start time Please organize the table materials At 3:00, please excuse the Junior Math Reps who will meet in room ___________.

46. Cross-District, Like-Role Sharing GOALS: Inquire and co-learn through sharing evidence of district implementation (practising, supporting, monitoring, reflecting and revising) Build and mobilize knowledge through outside and in-the-room thinking

47. A Principal’s Narrative How might these ideas support student, classroom, school and system learning?

48. A Principal’s Narrative Insert Principal video

49. A Principal’s Narrative, Kathy Kubota-Zarivnij

50. Breakouts

51. Morning Breakout Learnings How might the ideas from this breakout support student, classroom, school and system learning? https://voicethread.com/share/3837748/

52. Team-time – After the breakouts… Review the focus/inquiry section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

53. Lunch

54. Breakouts

55. Afternoon Breakout Learnings How might the ideas from this breakout support student, classroom, school and system learning? https://voicethread.com/share/3837748/

56. After the breakouts… Review the focus/inquiry section on your SIM plan. What do you notice? What do you wonder?