1. CESD Board and Admin Retreat March 20-22, 2011

2. FIND YOUR TEAM & TABLE:  Look at the icon on the left hand side of your nametag  your name is also on the table  Please sit with your team

3. Our Agenda 8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and Goals 9:00 -11:30 - Critical Challenge 11:30-12:00 - Gallery Walk 12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:30 –Team Building & Group Formation 1:30-2:45– Role of the Administrator 2:45-3:30– Wrap Up

4. Looking down the road…  What makes a great school?  What makes a great district?

5. Essential Questions  What is meant by 21 st century teaching and learning ?  What are the implications for school based leadership in this context?

6. Why examine teacher practice?  Research indicates that the two things that are the highest yield in terms of raising achievement and increasing student learning are:  Quality of teachers and teaching.  Quality of leadership.  Ask yourself two questions everyday:  What have I done to improve learning and teaching today?  What have I done to build my own and other’s leadership capacity today?

7. How much do effective teachers matter? World’s Best Performing School Systems, 2008.

8. Marzano & Waters

10. What Matters? Adapted from Hattie, 2003. Estimated Influence of Factors Accounting for Variations in Student Achievement

11. What Matters for Effective Teaching? (Reeves) Understand academic content. Provide feedback to students in a timely, accurate and effective manner. Prepare lessons that are engaging, adaptive, and differentiated. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of each student.

12. That’s why you are here…  Our position…  We need to:  Understand what 21 st century teaching and learning looks like.  Articulate what 21 st century teaching and learning means for CESD.  Student learning depends on it.

13. The research is very clear:  School division alignment is an essential element of high performing school divisions.

14. Your Task With your Team: 1. Articulate the essential actions and understandings of a teacher in a 21 st century learning environment? 3. Debrief & Consolidation at 11:30

15. A Cautionary Tale

16. CESD Leadership Team: 21 st Century Skills:  Problem Solving & Collaboration  Critical Thinking & Creative Thinking  Technology embedded in all of these  Global and Ethical Citizenship  Communication, Flexibility & Resiliency

17. Creating Your Glogster!  Go to Glogster at http://www.glogster.com/Glogsterhttp://www.glogster.com/  Click on "Login" in the top right hand corner  Nickname: retreat Password: cesd73  Click on "Create New Glog"  As a group, create ONE Glog. You can use any of the options available to you. Be creative! Remember the title of your Glog as you will all be logging in and sharing your Glog later this morning.  When finished, Save your Glog  If you want to view your Glogster, click on "Dashboard" and scroll to the bottom of the screen.

19. Your Task: http:cesdretreat.wikispaces.com http:cesdretreat.wikispaces.com With your Team: 1.Find your room location on the wiki. 2. Articulate the essential actions and understandings of a teacher in a 21 st century learning environment? 3. Debrief & Consolidation at 11:30

20. 12:00 – 1:00

21. Our Agenda 8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and Goals 9:00 -11:30 - Critical Challenge 11:30-12:00 - Gallery Walk LUNCH 1:00-1:30 –Team Building & Group Formation 1:30-2:45– Role of the Administrator 2:45-3:30– Wrap Up

22. Essential Questions  What is meant by 21 st century teaching and learning ?  What are the implications for school based leadership in this context?

23. Principal Quality Practice Guidelines Leadership Dimension 4 –  Providing Instructional Leadership  The principal ensures that all students have ongoing access to quality teaching and learning opportunities to meet the provincial goals of education. Principal Quality Practice Guideline: Promoting Successful School Leadership in Alberta, February 2009

24. Descriptors of Dimension 4  current pedagogy and curriculum  student assessment & evaluation practices are fair, appropriate and balanced  effective supervision and evaluation of all teachers to consistently meet TQS  appropriate pedagogy reflecting student diversity  appropriate programming based on individual learning needs  new and emerging technologies, meaningful integration in support of teaching and learning  teachers communicate and collaborate with parents and community agencies

25. Effective Leadership Participating in teacher learning and development. 0.91 Leading teachers to base teaching decisions on formative evaluations 0.90 Planning, coordinating and evaluating teaching, curriculum and pedagogy (direct involvement, regularly visiting classrooms, formative feedback and feed forward). 0.74 Ensuring teachers are intellectually stimulated about current research informed practices.64 0.64 Strategic resourcing, (aligning resource selection and allocation 0.60 Actively challenge status quo0.60 Establishing goals and expectations 0.54 Maintaining an orderly supportive environment 0.49 Elmore, 2006; Friesen & Jacobsen, 2009; Hattie, 2009; Leithwood, 2007; Marzano, 2006

26. What Matters for Effective Teaching? (Reeves) Understand academic content. Provide feedback to students in a timely, accurate and effective manner. Prepare lessons that are engaging, adaptive, and differentiated. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of each student.

27. What matters for effective school based leaders? Understand academic content and requirements. Provide feedback to teachers in a timely, accurate and effective manner. Prepare learning opportunities that are engaging, adaptive, and differentiated. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of your staff.

28. What matters for effective district based leaders? Understand academic requirements and direction of the province and how it will impact schools. Provide feedback to schools in a timely, accurate and effective manner. Prepare learning opportunities for teachers and leaders that are engaging, adaptive, and differentiated. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of your leaders and staff.

29. Innovation + - - + Improvement U.S.A. Ontario -Literacy -Numeracy China Alberta?? Cool technology, no depth in understanding

30. What is the route from “lucky” and “losing” to leading?

31. Helping People Improve (Fullan 2009)  ….time and resources DO NOT MEAN A THING unless there is a commitment to DOING.  Relentless attention…the work starts when you leave.  Beyond communicating to action…respectful but insistent. Relentless attention on what is important (vision).  Beyond PD and PLC’s to a connection to every day work.

32. Imagine…  A school where a teacher becomes a better educator just by being part of this staff….  That this exists in all schools…for kids…to accomplish our mission…  Each learner, entrusted to our care, has unique gifts and abilities. It is our mission to find out what these are…Explore them…Develop them…Celebrate them.

33. Implications for Leadership Based on your conversations this morning:  Find your NEW team and location  What are the implications for YOU as school based administrators in this 21st Century context?  Return at 2:45 http:cesdretreat.wikispaces.com