Spc june 14 world class learners

Embedding Deeper Learning ‘Through critiques and Presentations of Learning’ as a whole school 'narrative' for building future global students.

What does deeper learning look like? How do you create that vision in your school? How do you create the milestones, the buy in and the passion? What does it look like in student work?

Pre-test

• Who is from the Country/ City? Rural/ Coastal

• Who has heard of ‘Austins’ Butterfly

• First years of Principalship

• Who wants a take home snippet.

Purpose

• Examine the leadership capabilities that directly influence the work of teachers, providing them with the inspiration, direction, capacities and working environment to move toward Entrepreneurial 21st Century school.

• Principals Role in school development process

• Building the Narrative, how and one schools journey

• Deeper Learning ... show how we are building our vision of deeper learning.

The responsibility we have as leaders is to discover our own enlivening ‘breath’ so that we can awaken and remind those we work with, of theirs. J.Hurley 2011.

Principals Role in school development process? –

The focus on building creative world class learners is paramount and school leaders need to ensure that we implement the Australian Curriculum to fulfill our Education Reform priorities.

What do school Leaders do? Their Skills and their Practices?

Skills and Practices- From my research across 3 continents. Leadership skills and professional practices that support 21st century global learning

• Educational Vision• Personal Qualities • Networking, use of champions & mentoring systems focusing on quality teaching• Professional learning communities within the school and beyond• School structural reform in the support for 21st century learners• Innovative interpretation of the curriculum with a focus on pedagogy• Resource management• Personal use of emerging technologies in leadership

If vision is the most imperative thing...

I begun a journey..... to discover what we all want. ....authentic deep learning in our classrooms...

The Research.....

As Rip Curl says... live the search... Begun with Yong Zhao in 2012.... Yong and a need for change..

Yong Zhao and a need for change Video

Yong unearthed this notion of World Class Learners- Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students.

“The redefinition of entrepreneurship. The world Economic Forum defines entrepreneurship as:

‘a process that results in creativity, innovation and growth. Innovative entrepreneurs come in all shapes and forms; its benefits are not limited to start ups, innovative ventures or new jobs. Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action and is therefore a key competence for all, helping young people to be more creative and self confident in whatever they undertake.’ (World Economic Forum, 2009, p.9).

Indicators of a world class school.

• Student Voice: Governance and Environment

• Student Choice: Broad and Flexible Curriculum

• Student Support: Personalization and mentoring

• Authentic Products:Personally Meaningful or Useful to others

• Sustained and Disciplined Process: Multiple Drafts and review

• Strength-Based: Unique and Local

• Global Orientation: International Partners and Opportunities

• Global Competence: Foreign Languages and Cultures

Finding Examples of Places that showed these indicators.

• Finding Examples of Places that showed these indicators.

• - Visited Wilson-ville in Oregon

• - Oxford Community of Schools Detroit

• - Shanghai City District Schools

• - Indonesia- Yogyakarta

• - Beijing Academy

• - International Congress of school effectiveness and improvement etc etc etc.

Indonesia-

Oregon University- OBA Education and Yong Zhao

Beijing Academy school- Looking for Entrepreneurial learners

However... highlight-

My introduction to High Tech High in 2013.... I was blown away by this... I had to know more.

An Amazing project from High Tech High

Based around the philosophies of WORK THAT MATTERS.Image.

• Product oriented learning- Passions.. beyond meeting standards to perform in tests... students are involved with work that matters...deep learning.. by creating authentic high quality products and services. Problems as opportunities, strengths and weaknesses, perseverance and Disciplined Creativity.

• Design Principles- personalization, adult world connection, and common intellectual mission, teacher as designer.

• Protocols and Norms for tuning learning and creative problem solving.

• Learning- Work that matters... Student as leaders in their own learning.

• http://deniselofts.com/2014/02/23/first-things-first-how-do-we-build-a-world-class-21st-century-school/

HIGH TECH HIGH- leadership thinking innovation

HIGH TECH HIGH Is a revolution...in thinking... toward deeper learning, creativity... and innovation..global world class learners.

Look at the types of things that have happened at High Tech High. Students talking about their projects

Yong Zhao- A world class school

•A community of autonomous learners engaged in creating meaningful products located on a global campus is the image of a world class school following the new paradigm. Indicators of a world class school to guide development of such a school- and can used as accountability measures.

....the scope of a project...there are no limits...

Project Cards... handed to groups... 3 minutes to have a read....

Overview of what Deep Learning ( PBL looks like)... and what PBL is NOT.

What PBL is NOT.

What do you want in your school? What do you want learning to look like in your school? What do you want your classrooms to look like? (5 minutes)

50 project ideas to transform your school... chalk and no talk.

Look around the room...

50 project ideas to transform your school... chalk and no talk.

Look around the room...

Welcome to UHS

Year 7 Student- ‘ I do not understand why people think Doctors are more important than Principals,

because without Principals, there would be no doctors’

Our Journey .....

New Principal.. Perfect Opportunity... Shared the vision...get the buy in... ”World Class global learners”.

What do we want learning to look like, what do we want our Classrooms to look like...

Consultation...took many forms.... Discover Dream.... asking the question of teachers, staff, parents and Students.

What we want our classrooms to look like?

Curriculum Team Created the Premise/research and background.Questions asked and research sharing... Product based learning became our focus.

From this we established our Strategic Directions.

We ‘students, staff and parents’ is the key...

Picture of our Strategic Directions. (hand out)

Pictures of our milestones. ( handout).

• Build Future  21st Century skills  with our students

• Teachers are world class leaders in learning

• Real world connections

world class global learners- UHS our Plan

International connections collaborating with our School:Academic Partner: Yong Zhao.

In April : High Tech High Principal Lead Professional Learning with our school and 6 other schools.

Intro to PBL

It has underpined our transformation.

How deep learning is progressing at UHS and how we are going?

Michelle Talks about what it looks like in her classroom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afd7Fn1wrHY&feature=youtu.be

Jaykob and Leroy talk about what happens in their classroomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiw4_sLUf60&feature=youtu.be

John Talks about his Classroomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3QIPXGMQNc&feature=youtu.be

Michelle talks about how we meet syllabus outcomes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_IA9kyxIM&feature=youtu.be

John talks about meeting Syllabus outcomes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPJrihc0f-s&feature=youtu.be

Our students Star in “Surfing Life”... Entrepreneurial creative students in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjhhW117sQ&feature=youtu.be

Indicators of a world class school.

• Student Voice: Governance and Environment

• Student Choice: Broad and Flexible Curriculum

• Student Support: Personalization and mentoring

• Authentic Products:Personally Meaningful or Useful to others

• Sustained and Disciplined Process: Multiple Drafts and review

• Strength-Based: Unique and Local

• Global Orientation: International Partners and Opportunities

• Global Competence: Foreign Languages and Cultures

Thank you.. All resources and links will be on my Blog.. (in a day or so).