CESD Board and Admin RetreatMarch 20-22, 2011

FIND YOUR TEAM & TABLE:

Look at the icon on the left hand side of your nametagyour name is also on the table

Please sit with your team

Our Agenda8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and Goals9:00 -11:30 - Critical Challenge11:30-12:00 - Gallery Walk

12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:30 –Team Building & Group Formation1:30-2:45– Role of the Administrator2:45-3:30– Wrap Up

Looking down the road…

What makes a great school?

What makes a great district?

Essential Questions What is meant by 21st century

teaching and learning?

What are the implications for school based leadership in this context?

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?

How much do effective teachers matter?

World’s Best Performing School Systems, 2008.

Marzano & Waters

What Matters?

HomeStudentsSchoolTeachersPeers

Students 50%

Home 5 – 10%

School 5 – 10%

Teachers 30%

Peers 5 – 10%

Adapted from Hattie, 2003.

Estimated Influence of Factors Accounting for Variations in Student Achievement

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.

That’s why you are here… Our position… We need to:

Understand what 21st century teaching and learning looks like.

Articulate what 21st century teaching and learning means for CESD.

Student learning depends on it.

The research is very clear:

School division alignment is an essential element of high performing school divisions.

Your TaskWith your Team:

1. Articulate the essential actions and understandings of a teacher in a 21st century learning environment?

3. Debrief & Consolidation at 11:30

A Cautionary Tale

CESD Leadership Team:21st Century Skills: Problem Solving & Collaboration Critical Thinking & Creative

Thinking        Technology embedded in all of these Global and Ethical Citizenship Communication, Flexibility & Resiliency

Creating Your Glogster! Go to Glogster at http://www.glogster.com/ Click on "Login" in the top right hand corner

Nickname: retreatPassword: 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.

Your Task: 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 21st century learning environment?

3. Debrief & Consolidation at 11:30

12:00 – 1:00

Our Agenda8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and Goals9:00 -11:30 - Critical Challenge11:30-12:00 - Gallery Walk

LUNCH

1:00-1:30 –Team Building & Group Formation1:30-2:45– Role of the Administrator2:45-3:30– Wrap Up

Essential Questions What is meant by 21st century

teaching and learning?

What are the implications for school based leadership in this context?

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

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

Effective LeadershipParticipating 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 quo 0.60

Establishing goals and expectations

0.54

Maintaining an orderly supportive environment

0.49

Elmore, 2006; Friesen & Jacobsen, 2009; Hattie, 2009; Leithwood, 2007; Marzano, 2006

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.

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.

What matters for effective district based leaders?

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.

Innovation +-

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Innovation

Improvement

Improvement

U.S.A.

Ontario- Literacy- Numeracy

ChinaAlberta??

Cool technology, no depth in understanding

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

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.

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.

Implications for LeadershipBased 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