Engaging in Change – A Distributive Leadership Model

Why Change?

Inquiry/project based learning

Greater flexibility for student learning

Decrease stress for students

Personalized learning environment Greater ownership and sense of control by students

21st Century Competency assessment

Technology - Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Student Voice

“The way things are taught needs to change.”

“It should be more relevant to me.”

“Make it more tied to experiences.”

“The way we are assessed needs to change.”

Reference: http://blogs.rockyview.ab.ca/blog/2013/10/09/an-open-letter-to-education/

Student Voice

How did we do it? Collaboration was at the core – Distributive Leadership

Formed a Student Centric Learning Team (parents, students, trustee, teachers, administrators, community & business

Reviewed literature Inspiring Education, Ministerial Order (May 2013), AB ED HS

Flexibility Project & other resources Scoop-it http://www.scoop.it/t/chs-innovative-education

Road Trips to High Tech High, Olds & Springbank Debriefing sessions

Backwards By Design Planning approach

What did we do ?

UBD Planning with team

Offered information & PL sessions to staff, students and parents

Refined plan

Collaborative Design Interdisciplinary cohorts Learning Leader team Creation of flex teams

What did we do ?

Collaborative Design cont’d

Communication Plan

Division support

Data to inform decisions APORI Tell Them From Me Survey RVS Survey CHS Action Research – Staff, Student, Parent

What did we do?

Mahara e-Portfolio

21st Century Competencies http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=rG03o8Cwc3Q&feature=youtu.be

Post-secondary admission

Scholarships & Employers

Next steps…

Action Research - ongoing Staff, students, parents

Road trips to clarify and generate new ideas

Re-craft current program based on findings

Ongoing PL for staff

Collaboration – Distributive Leadership Student-student, student-teacher, teacher-teacher,

teacher-parent, teacher-community

Chapter One

You can’t start the next chapter if you keep re-reading the last one

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And so our journey continues……….

Resource to Support Redesign

High School Re-Design Webpage Read Watch Put it into practice

http://education.weebly.com/weebly/main.php