System Implementation and Monitoring Regional Session Fall,
2014 Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca
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K-12 System Implementation and Monitoring (SIM) Purpose To
support a board team throughout the year in the implementation and
monitoring of a mathematics goal in the BIPSA.
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K-12 System Implementation and Monitoring (SIM) Team Membership
A Superintendent with school responsibilities along with elementary
and secondary principals from that superintendency At least one
person with responsibility for development of the BIPSA so that the
learning from SIM is leveraged across the Board Coordinators or
consultants who work directly in schools in the superintendency
SELs and SSLs
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Expectations The same team should attend all three sessions for
ongoing learning one session builds on another Delegate one board
team member to take responsibility for collating the documentation
of the teams learning at SIM as well as the learning between SIM
sessions and for bringing the documentation to each SIM session
Teams meet or teleconference to continue the work between SIM
sessions
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@lnssim #fallsim
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The Year Ahead SIM 1: going deeper with implementation;
developing a growth mindset culture to support implementation
In-between work: document the implementation process and team
learning SIM 2: (Feb. 10 & 11) reflection and analysis of the
implementation process, team learning and monitoring to date
In-between work: collecting, documenting and analyzing evidence of
impact to date SIM 3: (May 5 & 6) intentional focus on the
outcome of the process, cross-board sharing
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Agenda 9:00-12:00 Minds On - high quality mathematics
instruction Video Dan Meyer Planning for Implementation - A Look at
your goal Improvement Mistakes to Avoid Implementation Challenges
Implementation Video Steps to Accomplishing your Mathematics Goal
12:45-3:10 Mindsets that Support Implementation Readings Video
Carol Dweck Consolidating your Implementation Plan Feedback
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Implementation and Monitoring Implementation is an active,
intentional process that guides the use and integration of a set of
actions that leads to the effective use of evidence-informed
practice. Monitoring is the ongoing gathering, reviewing and
assessing of information to track and document progress towards
results and goals. -Adapted from Utilization Focused Evaluation, M.
Patton
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Minds-On Task #1 If you were asked to observe a teachers math
classroom for one or more lessons, what would you look for to
decide whether the mathematics instruction is high quality? -K.
Katterfeld, 2013 Think on your own for 5 minutes and write each
idea on a different sticky. Use a fine black marker so that the
ideas can easily be seen. After 5 minutes share your ideas with
your team and post the ideas on the chart paper. Put your board
name at the top of your chart paper.
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Dan Meyer
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Best Evidence Synthesis on Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics
Effective mathematical pedagogy is a coherent system rather than a
set of discrete, interchangeable strategies. This pedagogical
system encompasses: A non-threatening classroom environment
Instructional tasks Tools and representations Classroom discourse
Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics/Pangarau by Glenda Anthony &
Margaret Walshaw, New Zealand (2007)
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Team Discussion Add new ideas to your view of high quality
mathematics instruction.
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Planning for Implementation Task # 2 1.What is your BIPSA
mathematics goal? 2.How does your goal relate to your understanding
of high quality mathematics instruction? 1.What questions do you
have about this goal? 4.What will be different for: students,
teachers, principals and superintendents if this goal is realized?
Record your goal on a piece of chart paper.
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Breakout Rooms Vaughan East Vaughan West Aurora Newmarket
Ballantrae King City
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Implementation Challenges What is adopted is often not used
with fidelity. What is used with fidelity is often not sustained
for a useful period of time. What is used with fidelity is often
not used on a scale sufficient to impact many students.
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Implementation Video
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Questions Posed in the Video Which of these questions, if any,
are relevant to your discussion about implementation? Who can do
it? How do we do it? How do we train for it? How will we evaluate
it? How will we capture our experience so that we can share our
knowledge with others? How would we avoid the mistakes in our
plan?
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Reading Three school improvement mistakes (and how to avoid
them)
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Planning for Implementation Task #4 What are the specific
action steps that need to be accomplished? What and how will you
monitor, document and analyze the learning for each group (student,
teacher, principal, superintendent) for each action step? Use one
colour of post-it for implementation steps and another colour for
monitoring
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Process for Task #4 Individual activity - use one colour of
sticky for action steps and another colour for how you will monitor
that step. Team Activity Consider all implementation and monitoring
ideas developed by the team - Sort and classify your ideas
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Lunch 12:00-12:45
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There truly is no scientific justification anymore-if there
ever was-for labeling children as having different amounts of
intelligence, ability, or even-the new weasely euphemism potential.
Lucas and Claxton 2010
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Without a single-minded focus on each student as a developing
individual, all the other strategies, systems and approaches are
worthless. - Oliver Knight and David Benson, Creating Outstanding
Classrooms, page 193
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Developing a Growth Mindset Culture What strategies and
interventions can be: explicitly taught cultivated and nurtured to
create a growth mindset culture?
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Carol Dweck Video
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Developing a Growth Mindset Culture Task #5 What strategies and
interventions can be: explicitly taught cultivated and nurtured to
create a growth mindset culture?
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Choose a reading and discuss : 1.Towards a growth mindset in
assessment -Geoff N. Masters 2. Preparing Students to Take
Responsibility for Learning -J.P. Carpenter and J.S. Pease 3. The
Mindsets That Foster Productive Persistence In Students -Michael
Keany 4. Developing a Growth Mindset-How individuals and
organizations benefit from it -Coert Visser 5. Perseverance and
Grit -Rick Wormeli 6. Creating Outstanding Classrooms O. Knight
& D. Benson Readings
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Planning for Implementation Task # 6 Prioritize the action
steps. Determine what timeline is reasonable for each step. Place
the action steps and monitoring actions on the timeline.
Implementation Monitoring Fill in dates for your action steps.
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Planning for Implementation Task #7 Use an organizer to capture
your thinking and for each action step consider: Resources Required
Communication Plan Roles and Responsibilities Professional Learning
Potential Source(s)of Evidence Mindset Monitoring Home/School
Partnerships
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Consolidation In-between work: document the implementation
process and team learning and bring materials to Winter SIM Invite
SAO, FTL and/or ESSEO to share videos showing examples of
monitoring from folks across the regions