2. Provoking Action to Make Gains Student achievment Equity Public confidence

3. 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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7. Sharing Promising Practices

8. Growingexchange ideas actively connect with people

9. Sharing Promising Practices Growingexchange ideas actively connect with people Accessiblebinder summaries memory stick files

10. Sharing Promising Practices Growingexchange ideas actively connect with people Accessiblebinder summaries memory stick files Interactivevideo/audio evidence Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect

11. Sharing Promising Practices Growingexchange ideas actively connect with people Accessiblebinder summaries memory stick files Interactivevideo/audio evidence Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect Networkedcontact information given An electronic collaboration site

12. Sharing Promising Practices Growingexchange ideas actively connect with people Accessiblebinder summaries memory stick files Interactivevideo/audio evidence Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect Networkedcontact information given An electronic collaboration site Supportsframeworks and thinking tools Readiness conditions, advice

13. Reaching EVERY Student by reaching every educator

14. GAINS is a learning strategy

15. Myrna, 1:00 right after lunch GAINS Metaphor an education ecosystem

16. 2003-07 Focus in Math

18. 2007-08 Math and Literacy

20. Nested Layers of Purposeful Activities

21. Mathematics Agenda for Action: Grades 7-12, 2007-2017 Grounding action in research Strategic decision making based on evidence

22. Agenda for Action PeopleVision (Goals) Strategy (including ongoing assessment) Assessing Status (Checkpoint) Who is involved What we want What we’re about to do Criteria for checking progress

23. Agenda for Action PeopleVision (Goals) Strategy (including ongoing assessment) Assessing Status (Checkpoint) Who was involved What we wanted What we didStatus report What we want What we’re about to do Criteria for checking progress Who is involved Monitoring and Adjusting

24. Agenda for Action PeopleVision (Goals) Strategy (including ongoing assessment) Assessing Status (Checkpoint) Was Is Monitoring and Adjusting

25. Agenda for Action PeopleVision (Goals) Strategy (including ongoing assessment) Assessing Status (Checkpoint) Who is involved Alignment

26. 7-12 Literacy Agenda for Action, 2007-2017

27. Contracted Work in Pilot Boards and Organizations Professional Learning Teaching and Learning Expert Panel Think Literacy 2003-07 Literacy

28. 2007-08 Literacy GAINS Pilot and Demonstration Classrooms Integrated Lessons Development Records of Practice Field testing Research Synopses Facilitator Guides Learning Materials Adobe Connect Sessions in English

29. 2007-08 Literacy GAINS Pilot and Demonstration Classrooms Facilitator Guides Learning Materials Adobe Connect Sessions in Sciencein the ArtsinTechnological Education Integrated Lessons Development Records of Practice Field testing Research Synopses

30. 2007-08 Literacy GAINS Literacy Strategies Questions Complexity Exploratory Research Indicators

31. 2007-08 Literacy GAINS Facilitators’ Guide Conditions Analysis Field Testing Records of Practice Tools Research Tools Video, Guide, Subject- Specific Resources Research Records of Practice Research

32. 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 Action 10-year Frame

33. GAINS and Knowledge Animation powerful connections

34. Knowledge animation ways of making knowledge accessible and mobile to promote learning

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. No longer in question what practices are promising research and evidence are clear

40. Knowing what we want to do is not the same as knowing how to do it. Levin & Wien, 2003

41. It’s a question of “how” to engage collaborativelyto harness Web 2.0 toolsto foster collaborative relationships to adapt promising practices to local readiness

42. Deeper levels of support de-privatizing practice at all levels

43. 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

44. The Power of Video samples of shifting practice

45. Observing Protocols Being explicit Being intentional Being respectful Supporting comments with evidence Focusing on learning Keeping the goals in mind Acquiring permissions

46. Video Records of Sessions Please sign and hand in your consent form!

47. 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

48. Broader levels of support Tri- and tetra-levels

49. 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

50. Shift happens there’s no question about our direction, just the speed

51. Making GAINS Growing Accessible Interactive Networked Supports