Cultivating Pedagogical InnovationThrough

Emerging Leaders

EdscapeOctober 18, 2014

Dr. Andrea Tejedor@astrategicshift

Highland Falls – Fort Montgomery CSD

Welcome to Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery CSD

Highland Falls Intermediate School

James I. O’Neill High SchoolFort Montgomery Elementary School

Today’s learner

Goal

Tinkering towards utopia by leveraging educational technologies and making a strategic shift in our praxis by:

• exploring emerging technologies,

• examining pedagogy, and

• evaluating outcomes

1 INVITATION

2 DISCOVERY

3 COLLECTIVE MATURATION

4 SPONSORSHIP CONTAINER

5 ENGAGE THE SUBSYSTEMS

6 SUSPEND COMPLEXITY

7 SYNTHESIS

8 DIFFERENTIATION

9 LIVING DESIGN

Spiral Model for Change

1 INVITATION

2 DISCOVERY

Initiation – stepping into the fullness of the position as a leader

What is driving us to seek change, what are the potentials to which we aspire? How can we begin to move toward these potentials?

Spiral Model for Change

1 INVITATION

2 DISCOVERY

Belief systems;Stake holders;Customs;Community values;“knowing what is in the system”

We begin to cultivate leadership in our team and the system around us. We plot a strategic journey for the projects we are undertaking.

Spiral Model for Change

Discovery:Schools as Living SystemsLevels of PerspectiveDiscovering your role in the systemDiscovering conversational patternsDefining the Action ProjectDefining criteria for successEstablishing a coaching practice

Spiral Model for Change

Invitation

• Year 1: 10 members

• 6 teachers

• 2 administrators

• 1 technician

• 1 instructional technology coach

Discovery

• Inquiry

• Technology

• Curiosity

• Experimentation

Students

Our strategy?

Professional Development

Today’s learner

Your Reflection

Invitation & Discovery

1. Who would you invite? Write the names of 5 staff/faculty members that you would invite to the dialogue?

2. What is driving you to seek change? What are the potentials to which you aspire?

3. Can you define the:

• Belief Systems(s):

• Stake Holders:

• Customs:

• Community Values:

Seeding the Ground:The structurally significant core groupThe “container” a field for fostering learningMapping inter-relationshipsPrincipals of Living SystemsThe “boundary profile” understanding people in the systemCapabilities of effective leadershipMicrocosms of the Action Project

3. Collective Maturation

Spiral Model for Change

We set out to create Containers for Inquiry and Action throughout the system:The practice of dialogueVoicing, listening, suspending, and reflectingBalancing advocacy and inquiryStructural traps, recurring patterns that block changeLearning to intervene effectively“difficult” subgroups - constituencies

3. Collective Maturation

4. Form Formal Sponsorship Container

Spiral Model for Change

Seeding the Ground

• Monthly meetings

• Administrative Meetings

• Faculty Meetings

• Model & share best practices

• NYSCATE Annual Conference

Containers for Inquiry

• The Great Race

• Spiders in Space

• Vernier Probe-ware

• GAFE

Students

Our strategy?

Professional Development

Seeding the Ground

ponder

pilferprobe

2011

2012

2013

Containers for Inquiry

https://vimeo.com/102398389

Your Reflection

Seeding the Ground

1. What do you have to do to seed the ground and take local action?

2. What containers for inquiry to you need to create and/or support?

Embracing Complexity Our work thus far is yielding results…and breakdowns. What is the collective experience, and how can we begin to make sense of it with everyone involved?

The history of our system and its futureShared aspirationGenerative inquiry: Tracking the underlying causesMeans of intervention (facilitate, name, engage)

6. Suspend Complexity

5. Engage the Subsystems

Spiral Model for Change

Embracing Complexity

Is our work yielding results?

How does our individual experience shape our collective vision?

Do you hear evidence of:

Teacher Reflection?

Collaboration?

Learning?

Risk Taking?

Sub-systems

• Other faculty

• Board of Education

• Support staff

• Principals

Suspend Complexity

• Embedding technology in “what we do”

• Writing project

• APPR (observations)

• Projects for APPR

Your Reflection

Sponsorship & Local Action

1. Can you define the constituencies of your school system?

2. What strategies can you use to engage the subsystems in the conversation?

We create a theory about the organization and its potential and plot the course of change going forward

Bringing together different answers from the systemThe theory of the thing: what is our school systemThe theory of change: what kinds of development are feasibleThe theory of practice: what next?

8. Differentiation, Broadening the Agreement

7. Synthesis

Spiral Model for Change

Synthesis• Year 1: 10 members• Year 2: 13 members• Year 3: 16 members

– Self-selected in Y2 & 3

Differentiation• Inquiry• Pockets of innovation• Individualization

– Nook Colors– iPods– iPads– SMART Board– Document Cameras– Digital Cameras– Multimedia Lab– Teacher Webpage– Nexus 7/Chromebooks– GAFE/Classroom

The nature of some of this work is invisible:

We don’t pull up the onion to see if it is growing.

You have to have the audacity to think you can change something.

Most life and creativity starts in moments of silence not in moments of activity.

9. Living Design

Spiral Model for Change

What does this look like today?

Teacher-Led Professional LearningSeptember 2014: Culturally Responsive Classrooms

Conversation camps led by inquiry facilitators

Protocols & content determined by the

facilitators

Ideas generated by teacher-participants

Big picture connections between students, teachers & learning

Using data to understand who is in

our classrooms

TLT supported facilitators and

transcribed sessions

Reflecting & Planning

Reflecting & Planning

Living Design

• Supporting the innovators

• Cultivating emerging leaders

• Sharing learning

• Providing opportunities for ongoing inquiry

Making a strategic shifthttps://vimeo.com/101096262

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