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 - [email protected]
Network of Performance Based Schools www.npbs.ca
