CREATING A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY

“Challenges for School Leadership”

Setting the Scene

Context:

Political Realities A School’s Environment

Challenges:

We know the data that matters most is directly and explicitly about student learning

Prepare

Creating a Community of Curiosity – A common “Moral Purpose”

How do we continue to affirm effective practice yet look for alternative practices that can maximise improvement?

Building confidence through trust amongst our staff is critical

CREATIVITY

COMMUNITY

TRUST

Prepare (continued)

Sharing stories in an ongoing, regular way is important if you wish to build sustainable commitment

Build Assessment Literacy

POWER OF PROTOCOLS

Norms for open, honest conversation

Meeting habits that support inquiry, dialogue, reflection

Opportunities for direct action

Facilitative leadership capable of encouraging participation, ensuring equity, building trust

Inquire

Dig into Data

Seek the Truth

Look at Student Work

Develop and investigate a “Problem of Practice”

Act

Have a Plan

Have progress points – ways to keep you on track; multiple sources of data - Triangulation

Reflect with Purpose

Conclusions

Teacher beliefs are challenged and modified by “seeing and being seen teaching”, and then having conversations about it.

James Spillane – “Activities engaged in interactions with others in a particular context around specific tasks”

– lead and model

“open to learning” conversations

Conclusions (continued)

Moral Imperative

Keep learning, reflecting, challenging yourself