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Systems Thinking: sometimes a box is just a box
CODE Webinar 1
29 September 2008
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Welcome to Webinar 1
• Ian Carswell– Upper Canada District School Board
• Colleen Kappel– Superior- Greenstone District School Board
• Martha Dutrizac– London Catholic District School Board
• Michelle Forge– Council of Ontario Directors of Education
• Peter Levesque– Knowledge Mobilization Works
Outline
• Systems Thinking (the Big Idea)
• Systems concepts
• Imagery to help think about systems
• Discussion: divergence, convergence
– English/French, Public/Catholic
• Central Focus
– leadership for student success
• Link to Education for All
• Introduction to Reculturing
ST Definition
• “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.”
The Fifth Discipline, The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Senge, (Doubleday: 1990)
What is Systems Thinking?
http://newenergymovement.org/images/polygon.jpg
Systems Thinking: Ecology
http://multispective.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/complexsystem2.gif
Systems Thinking: Business
http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/grafics/systems.gif
Systems Thinking: Computing
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Systems Thinking: Education
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ST Tenets
• Interdependence of objects and their attributes - independent elements can never constitute a system
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/flow_map_layout/uk-interdependence.jpg
ST Tenets
• Holism - emergent properties not possible to detect by analysis should be possible to define by a holistic approach
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/holism.gif
ST Tenets
• Goal seeking - systemic interaction must result in some goal or final state
"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.-- Aristotle
http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/perseverance-quotes.htm
ST Tenets
• Inputs and Outputs - in a closed system inputs are determined once and constant; in an open system additional inputs are admitted from the environment
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ST Tenets
• Transformation of inputs into outputs - this is the process by which the goals are obtained
http://mittechnical.com/BOSTON-SEO-WORDPRESS/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/inputs-to-outputs.jpg
ST Tenets
• Entropy - the amount of disorder or randomness present in any system
http://www.holon.se/folke/kurs/Distans/Ekofys/fysbas/LOT/exergy_tube.jpg
ST Tenets
• Hierarchy - complex wholes are made up of smaller subsystems
http://www.umsl.edu/technology/frc/DEID/destination2adultlearning/MaslowHierarchy-Figure.jpg
http://www.gigstaggart.com/images/hierarchy.png
ST Tenets
• Differentiation - specialized units perform specialized functions
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/stemcell/images/hema.jpg
ST Tenets
• Equifinality - alternative ways of attaining the same objectives (convergence)
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/2/6/rich1.jpg
ST Tenets
• Multifinality - attaining alternative objectives from the same inputs (divergence)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~geog/News/images/clip_image002_000.jpg
Example from Knowledge Mobilization
Systems within systems
Rethinking Corporations
• http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pwTPRntAl_8
Long Time Coming - It’s Complex
The typical large business 20 years hence …will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950…it is far more likely to resemble organizations (like) the hospital, the university, the symphony orchestra…an organization composed largely of specialists who direct and discipline their own performance through organized feedback
Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review,
The Coming of the New Organization, 1988.
So what about Education?
What is the Ontario System?
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So what about “Special Education” within Education
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CODE Projects Report
• Sharing effective practice
• Collaboration
• Care about student learning
• Improvement in teaching
• Effective use of data
• Differentiated instruction
• Changes in beliefs and practices
Think about the “system”
• The Tenets– Interdependence
– Holism
– Goal seeking
– Inputs and outputs/transformation
– Entropy
– Hierarchy
– Differentiation
– Convergence/divergence
Discussion
• Ian Carswell– Upper Canada District School Board
• Colleen Kappel– Superior- Greenstone District School Board
• Martha Dutrizac– London Catholic District School Board
• Michelle Forge– Council of Ontario Directors of Education
What is the Value of:
• CODE projects
• Education for All
• Your Leadership
• Relationships
• Outside Education
• Levels: Ministry to classroom
Now what?
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Reculturing
• How to work with a “systems” perspective when we are in silos.
• Reculturing is the name of the gameFullan, M. (200 1). Leading in a culture of change.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Reculturing
• Reculturing is the main work of leadership, and it requires an underlying conceptualization of the key elements that feed it. Moral purpose is more than passionate teachers trying to make a difference in their classrooms. It's also the context of the school and district in which they work. That means principals have to be almost as concerned about the success of other schools in the district as they are about their own schools.
http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/fullan241.cfm
Webinar 2: Reculturing
• Is sharing is the new selfish?
• Methods of sharing
• Engaging students, parents, teachers, principals, administration, ministry, partners
• Using Technology to leverage knowledge
• Decisions for Evidence, Evidence from Decisions
• Barriers and Next steps
• Introduction to Community of Practice
Contacts
• CODE: http://www.ontariodirectors.ca/
• Michelle Forge
• John Fauteux
• Peter Levesque