Learning across Transitions

What evidence do we need?

How can we collect it?

How can we synthesise it?

Learning Together

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StudyAct

Plan

Shared purpose

What’s at the heart of the problem of transitions?

What are our shared design principles?

What’s our shared methodology for improvement?

What is our measurement model?

Test Fast

Fail Fast And Early

Learn And Improve

Explicate Improvement Hypotheses

Try out an Im-provement Protocol

Measure Outcomes

Analyze Results

Revise, Refine

Relate

Analyze Causes

Assess Current System

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An Improvement Cycle

PLANChoosing

Observing & Describing

Generating Questions

Uncovering Stories

Mapping

DODesigning

improvement protocol

Try out improvement protocol

STUDYMeasure change

Analyse Results

ACTRevise, Refine, Collaborate.

Present and Re-develop

PDSA

Looking Ahead: learners, leaders, champions

MeasurableImprovement

at Scale

HunchesTheories

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Network expansion, implementation under more varied conditions 2014 →

full scale, try out, 2013/14 →

small scale testing, 2012/13 →

Moving simultaneously on Multiple sub-problems

90 day cycles as resources

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Measurable System Improvement: New Knowledge and Know How

What are we measuring?

We’re doing something different for a purpose

What are the student outcomes we are looking for?

student self-directed learning

Self-directed learning is complex

Fuzziness Incompleteness Randomness

Our critical friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBl6ALNh18Q

Jurgen Habermasb 1929

Empirical Analytical Interests

• Based on instrumental values• Technical interest in control• Expressed through strategic rationality• Favours use of numbers• Generalisations• Means end / cause effect approach• Prediction • Reduction

Hermeneutical Interests

• Based on values of open dialogue• Practical interest in free communication• Expressed in hermeneutical rationality• Interpretive approaches• Qualitative methodologies• Informing judgement• Case studies for explanatory purpose

Emancipatory Interests

• Expressed in emancipatory rationality• Based on values of transformation &

empowerment• Interest in freedom from distortion at personal

and political levels• Critical social science• Socio-historical & narrative approaches• Action research to improve practice

we are the new Renaissance

THE SCHOOL AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY

Leadership Learning

Teacher Learning

Student Learning

School as complex system

Three learning

processes focused on

student learning and achievement

Evidence Hub

for knowledge sharing and harnessingcollective intelligence

Learning Together