Provoking Action to Make Gains Student achievment Equity Public confidence

Provoking Action to Make Gains

• Student achievment

• Equity

• Public confidence

Leaders Attending• 45 SSLs• 10 SSTs• 40 Superintendents• 55 Teacher leaders• 130 Consultants• 2 Directors• 40 Elementary Administrators• 45 Secondary Administrators• 25 Staff at Faculties of Education• 25 Ministry staff

60 adult and 12 student presenters/facilitators

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Sharing Promising Practices

Sharing Promising Practices

Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people

Sharing Promising Practices

Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people

Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files

Sharing Promising Practices

Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people

Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files

Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect

Sharing Promising Practices

Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people

Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files

Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect

Networked • contact information given• An electronic collaboration site

Sharing Promising Practices

Growing • exchange ideas• actively connect with people

Accessible • binder summaries • memory stick files

Interactive • video/audio evidence• Wiki, blogs, Adobe Connect

Networked • contact information given• An electronic collaboration site

Supports • frameworks and thinking tools• Readiness conditions, advice

Reaching EVERY Student

by reaching every educator

GAINS is

a learning strategy

Myrna, 1:00 right after lunch

GAINS Metaphor

an education ecosystem

2003-07 Focus in Math

2003-07 Focus in Math

2007-08 Math and Literacy

2007-08 Math and Literacy

Nested Layers of Purposeful Activities

Mathematics Agenda for Action: Grades 7-12, 2007-2017

•Grounding action in research•Strategic decision making based on evidence

Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy

(including ongoing

assessment)

Assessing Status

(Checkpoint)

Who is involved

What we want

What we’re about to do

Criteria for checking progress

Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy

(including ongoing

assessment)

Assessing Status

(Checkpoint)

Who was involved

What we wanted

What we did Status report

What we want

What we’re about to do

Criteria for checking progress

Who is involved

Monitoring and Adjusting

Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy

(including ongoing

assessment)

Assessing Status

(Checkpoint)

Was

Is

Monitoring and Adjusting

Agenda for ActionPeople Vision (Goals) Strategy

(including ongoing

assessment)

Assessing Status

(Checkpoint)

Who is involved

Alignment

7-12 Literacy

Agenda for Action, 2007-2017

Contracted Work in Pilot Boards and Organizations

Professional Learning

Teaching and LearningExpert

Panel

Think Literacy

2003-07 Literacy

2007-08 Literacy GAINS

Pilot andDemonstration Classrooms

IntegratedLessons

Development

Records of Practice

Field testing

ResearchSynopses

Facilitator GuidesLearning MaterialsAdobe Connect Sessions

in English

2007-08 Literacy GAINS

Pilot andDemonstration Classrooms

Facilitator GuidesLearning MaterialsAdobe Connect Sessions

in Sciencein the ArtsinTechnologicalEducation

IntegratedLessons

Development

Records of Practice

Field testing

ResearchSynopses

2007-08 Literacy GAINS

Literacy Strategies

QuestionsComplexity

Exploratory Research

Indicators

2007-08 Literacy GAINS

Facilitators’Guide

ConditionsAnalysis

Field TestingRecords of

Practice

ToolsResearch

Tools

Video, Guide, Subject-Specific ResourcesResearch

Records of Practice

Research

2007 and beyond…• Literacies for learning• Related domains, e.g. meta-cognition• Literacy and learning strategies

– Affect– Skills – Strategies– Practices

• Implementation conditions• Complexity• Pedagogy of literacy• Research

Agenda for Action10-year Frame

GAINS and Knowledge Animation

powerful connections

Knowledge animation

ways of making knowledge accessible and mobile to promote learning

Memory Stick • Whole LMS library with quick links to:

– Mathematical Processes posters– CLIPS -Fractions– CLIPS - Transforming Periodic Functions– Geometer’s Sketchpad sketches– CIIM Research report– Math-Talk Learning Community Research

• Guide for Administrators• Agendas for Action• Will Richardson’s book excerpt

Connecting Practice and Research shelfTIPS

Print Materials• GAINS Actions graphic

– Nested systems focused on classrooms

• Agendas for Action– Scalable thinking tool

• Promising practices summaries– Consistency of format– Differentiated approaches by boards

• Guides for Administrators– Alignment across literacy and mathematics

Hallmarks of GAINS• Research-based and data-informed

• Consistency

• Alignment

• Scalability

• Nested systems

• Differentiated approaches

• Distributed leadership

• Records of practice

• Deeper and broader levels of support

Leadership is Key• “Leadership is second only to teaching in its

impact on student outcomes. Principals and vice-pricipals play an essential role as school leaders to achieve this impact.”Purpose to Practice: Putting Ontario’s Leadership Framework into Action – A Guide for Scholl and System Leaders

No longer in question what practices are

promising research and evidence are clear

Knowing what we want to do is not the same as knowing how to do it.

Levin & Wien, 2003

It’s a question of “how”

to engage collaborativelyto harness Web 2.0 toolsto foster collaborative relationshipsto adapt promising practices to local readiness

Deeper levels of support

de-privatizing practice at all levels

Records of Practice• Agendas for action • Lesson Study research lessons• Video clips of classroom practices• Video clips of professional learning practices• Research findings• Recordings of Adobe Connect sessions• Application and processing forms• PowerPoints and SMART notebooks• Guides• Synchronous and asynchronous video feeds• Samples of student work

The Power of Video

samples of shifting practice

Observing Protocols • Being explicit

• Being intentional

• Being respectful

• Supporting comments with evidence

• Focusing on learning

• Keeping the goals in mind

• Acquiring permissions

Video Records of Sessions

• Please sign and hand in your consent form!

Hallmarks of GAINS• Research-based and data-informed

• Consistency

• Alignment

• Scalability

• Nested systems

• Differentiated approaches

• Distributed leadership

• Records of practice

• Deeper and broader levels of support

Broader levels of support

Tri- and tetra-levels

GAINS is• a whole-system learning strategy • like an education ecosystem• nested layers of purposeful and aligned

activities• driven by leadership at all levels• about knowledge animation• about tri- and tetra-level relationships• about provoking action• providing access along a continuum in

making necessary shifts

Shift happens

there’s no question about our direction, just the speed

Making GAINS

Growing Accessible Interactive Networked Supports