CREATING A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY

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CREATING A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY

• Challenges for School Leadership

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Setting the Scene

• Context
• Political Realities
• A Schools Environment
• Challenges
• We know the data that matters most is directly
  and explicitly about student learning

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Prepare

• Creating a Community of Curiosity A common
  Moral Purpose
• How do we continue to affirm effective practice
  yet look for alternative practices that can
  maximise improvement?
• Building confidence through trust amongst our
  staff is critical

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CREATIVITY
COMMUNITY
TRUST
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Prepare (continued)

• Sharing stories in an ongoing, regular way is
  important if you wish to build sustainable
  commitment
• Build Assessment Literacy

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POWER OF PROTOCOLS

• Norms for open, honest conversation
• Meeting habits that support inquiry, dialogue,
  reflection
• Opportunities for direct action
• Facilitative leadership capable of encouraging
  participation, ensuring equity, building trust

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Inquire

• Dig into Data
• Seek the Truth
• Look at Student Work
• Develop and investigate a Problem of Practice

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Act

• Have a Plan
• Have progress points ways to keep you on track
  multiple sources of data - Triangulation
• Reflect with Purpose

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Conclusions

• Teacher beliefs are challenged and modified by
  seeing and being seen teaching, and then having
  conversations about it.
• James Spillane Activities engaged in
  interactions with others in a particular context
  around specific tasks
• lead and model
• open to learning conversations

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Conclusions (continued)

• Moral Imperative
• Keep learning, reflecting, challenging yourself
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