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Leadership Mindsets for Deeper Learning

Creating Spaces – Engaging Learning

Conference of the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International

September 25 2009

Dr. Linda Kaser & Dr. Judy Halbert1

Education remains at the forefront in confronting the future and is crucial in encouraging human endeavor. It has lifted the spirits and imaginations of generations before when challenges have been faced.

Philip IdleRegional President cefpi

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Themes to Explore

• Closing the learning gaps• Leadership mindsets – creating

quality and equality for all learners

• Design / environments for quality and equality

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IntentionsTo connect Pacific West Coast leadership experience with Australasia design perspectives by exploring:

• six research-based leadership mindsets

• three ways forward – wisdom, science, innovation

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Global ThinkingGlobal Questions

• Shifting from a sorting to a learning system

• Encouraging inquiry and lifelong curiosity

• Developing new forms of leadership

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Global ThinkingGlobal Questions

• Flattening organizations - networks and networking

• Informing assessment, learning and pedagogical practice

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Canadian and BC Context

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British Columbia

• 200 + First Nations • 57 Language Groups• Many small remote

communities• Fast growing urban

population• Diverse newcomers

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Canada

2000 2003 2006

Math 6th 5th 5th

Science 5th 8th 2nd

Reading 2nd 3rd 3rd

Finland

2000 2003 2006

Math 4th 1st 1st

Science 3rd 1st 1st

Reading 1st 1st 2nd

PISA RESULTS

Source www.OECD.org

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PISACanada British

Columbia2000 2003 2006 2006

Math 6th 5th 5th 4th

Science 5th 8th 2nd 4th

Reading 2nd 3rd 3rd 2nd

A Look at BC

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Canadian Challenge

• Honoring our gifts• Building a deeply

engaging learning system – for all

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Our Vision for BC2020

EVERY learner walks the stage with dignity,

purpose and options.

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From ToInstruction and teaching Deep learning

Summative assessment for grading and reporting

Formative assessment to provide coaching feedback

Teaching in isolation Teaching teams working as a learning community

“Business as Usual” Disciplined Innovation

Moving From Sorting to Learning

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Our Theoretical Perspective

• Transformative• Networked (distributed)• Oriented to Deep Learning• Democratic

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School Leadership is

Foundations for Leadership Mindsets

Case studies of BC schools over past ten years International findings of leadership impact on student learningInternational research on leadership

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Evidence That Matters

• Daily Engagement• Growth Per Learner – Content Area

Progressions• Year to Year Transition• Completion Rates

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Leadership Mindsets

Adult Learning Design

Evidence Informed

Intense Moral

Purpose

Inquiry

Trust

Deep Learning

Competence in core responsibilities 17

Powerful Pasts

Strong Ways

Promising Paths

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Three ways forwardconnecting

Powerful Pasts

Indigenous Ways of Knowing

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“For First Nations people the purpose of learning is to honor and protect the earth and ensure the long-term sustainability of life.”

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The Power of Relationships The Seen Face

Work TogetherWalk Slowly

Believe in Me

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Debbie Leighton Stephens Tsimshian - Metlakatla BC

Multi Generational Learning

Across Ages

Across Stages of Learning

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Dadirri

“In our Aboriginal way, we learned to listen from our earliest days. We could not live good or useful lives unless we listened. That was the normal way for us to learn – not by asking questions. We learnt by watching and listening, waiting, then acting.”

Miriam-Rose Ungenmerr-Bauman Daly River

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Watchful Listening – Lil’wat

An openness to listening beyond our own personal thoughts and assumptions

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Strong Ways

Practice and Evidence Informed

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Strong Ways

• Learners owning their own learning – assessment and engagement knowledge

• Professional learning• Leadership knowledge and

practice

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Promising Paths

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21st C Learning

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence

• Agility and Adaptability

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21st C Learning

• Initiative and entrepreneurialism – social and economic

• Effective oral and written communication

• Accessing and analyzing information

• Curiosity and imagination29

Promising Paths

Innovative Practice - Next Practice

30Tony Wagner Valerie Hannon Guy Claxton

Kieran Egan

Learning Quality Considerations

• Space• Time• Membership• Role of Teacher• Ways of Learning• Role of Technology and Media

Powerful Pasts, Strong Paths, Promising Futures

• What ideas from traditional, indigenous wisdom are you applying in your school design? What are you learning?

• What promising new ways are you considering in building for quality and equality?

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Cwelelep

Being in a place of dissonance, uncertainty in anticipation of

new learning

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Kat’il’a

Finding stillness amidst our busyness and need to know

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Judy Halbert – jhalbert @telus.netLinda Kaser - lkaser@telus.net

Network of Performance Based Schools www.npbs.ca