Enlisting Support for Lesson Study

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Enlisting Support for Lesson Study

• Jeanne Harmon, Executive Director,
• Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession
• NCOSP Learning Community Forum
• May 21, 2005

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Continuumof Collaboration

• Pre-initiation
• Initiation
• Developing
• Sustaining
• Rick DuFour

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Collaborative Culture

• Rate your school or department
• Find your place in line
• AFTER we fold the line, talk with your partner
  about one challenge you face in establishing
  lesson study in your school or department

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Why?

• Throughout our ten-year study, whenever we found
  an effective school or an effective department
  within a school, without exception that school or
  department has been a part of a collaborative
  professional learning community. Milbury
  McLaughlin

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How to get there?

• Barriers - in your setting, what (and who) are
  the barriers to establishing lesson study as a
  means to increase collaborative culture?
• Three minutes to think, three minutes each to
  share in a triad

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How to get there?

• Supports - In your setting, what supports exist
  that can help you establish lesson study as a
  means to increase collaborative culture?
• Three minutes to think, three minutes each to
  share in a triad

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Use the research

• Throughout our ten-year study, whenever we found
  an effective school or an effective department
  within a school, without exception that school or
  department has been a part of a collaborative
  professional learning community. Milbury
  McLaughlin

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Professional Culture

• Shared norms and values
• Focus on student learning
• Col-laboration
• De-privatization of teaching
• Reflective dialogue
• Louis, Marks and Kruse, 1996

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Effective Leadership Teams

• Focus on the solution to a problem, not on an
  innovation
• Have activists or facilitators engaged
• Develop a whole school perspective
• Build ownership of the problem
• Define themselves as leaders
• Have administrative support to meet and do their
  work
• Eisenhower Regional Alliance, 2000

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Be political

• Whats the problem you are trying to solve? How
  does lesson study help?
• Focus on student learning, student achievement,
  student benefits
• Give people a choice
• Aggressively seek resources, but move forward

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• For more information about The Center for
  Strengthening the Teaching Profession
• www.cstp-wa.org
• Jeanne Harmon 360-692-2082