Making a difference - strategic planning and technology and leading change!!

Personalising Learning

Technology in Education - The First 200 000 years

Ruben R. Puentedura

All language is generic until its framed by experience. 

What does it mean to teach collaboratively?
What are our experiences of this?

What is a one to one program? 
- accessible
- adaptable
- mobility
- flexible

Issues that face us in this journey 

• pedagogy
• community
• buy in 
• child safety 
• management
• types of devices 

Eight Elements for Success - Strategic Planning for Success 

• Vision - articulating the why TED Talks - the golden circle of why. 
• Student Learning - the way we are delivering the curriculum to change how we think about teaching and learning. 
• Team - establish a team within and across schools. Invite resistant ones to set the pace of change. 
• Professional Learning - personalising the journey 
• Community 
• Financial Sustainability - what opportunities are there to create a equal opportunity
• Measurement - talk about where you are and where you want to head to with community
• Environment Design  - infrastructure, applying SAMR model in how they are being used. 

All agreed - the why must come first - leading change.
What would come next and why?

Mapping our Journey 

• Free
• Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Visionary Leadership - shared leadership - individual leadership - community engagement

APPs for us to try;

Te Whaka Raki 

Apple Classroom 

App Store 

Teacher Tools

Papamoa 

Maori Culture and Language 

iTunes U

Ways to develop Professional Capital 

Community of Practice

- everybody talking about their practice

- sharing tech that works

- shared common language gained 

Notes from Papamoa School - Bruce Jepson 

Why have a vision - why does a school see, hear, feel a particular way? 

See - how student holds themselves

Hear - the vision of your school

Feel - the vision of your school 

Students and their potential - believing that our students can do anything if opportunities exist for them. 

Be real!!

Create your classroom in Minecraft. - through mathematics develop an online view for new families thinking of coming to your school. 

Community 

- capturing and measuring the quality of works being created 

- these are presented through reporting schedules. 

- The more you share the more on board they will be

Use of animations to teach te reo 

live broadcasts  

Finances 

Change thinking about finances - think laterally

- teaching & learning & thinking budget - to impact teaching and learning, raising student achievement. - coding still applied. 

- Run PLD for other schools - charge out 

- roll out and roll in 1 year, plan 

- business decisions to access the resources

How do we engage the community in the change process?

Thanks to the amazing Cheryl Doig for her words of wisdom.

http://www.thinkbeyond.co.nz/sln

http://bit.ly/MLParents for great ideas shared collaboratively

Parent lenses - of what our role as leaders within the school are

our expectations are mirrored within our school

Who needs to change most - parents or teachers?

• both

What we have in common...

• passionate about the cause
• believe in what we are doing
• looking through one lens
• articulate
• everyone has been through a school system
• both here for the kids

We need to challenge our own thinking to working with parents

• negatives about what information we are providing them with
• listen rather than say our view is right
• tension is between the past and stretching into the future
• presenting ourselves in a credible way with clear sense of the why

The Golden Circle

• The why,made explicit in vision / mission statement mutually agreed upon and owned by school community - the basis of a common sense of purpose. Parents get it from the time the parents walk into the school gate. Is what they are saying matching what I see in the classroom
• how derived form values and beliefs captured in policy statements

Aranui Community Campus

Expect that everyone will have an opinion and they may not be the ones you employ

Dereks Blog

How might we support parents and whanau through the change process?

CoPE

Reduce the common causes of variation by improving your processes:

• Key messaging around why
• Inconsistencies between teachers
• Deliberate acts of teaching
• Don’t change processes for special causes

95% of problems are system problems and that is the role of management

We have to be bridges for parents - by connecting the things they know to the things that work, i.e., discuss the differences between parent workplace than to now and use this to bridge the gap in understanding.

Where is your overton window

• seek out lone wolves

The balance of parental expectation and professional knowledge?

What

Design thinking toolbox  - ideo

What are they really saying

• Inform
• Consult
• involve
• collaborate
• empower

Be clear what you are asking of them. How much involvement you are actually wanting from them

MLE Questions

Lack of message from Ministry to support shift

Steps to successfully implement change for community

do as a cluster process

CPPA takes on role to produce material

Behaviour Over time Graph

• When should we have teacher only day?

Be a parent whisperer

• ask your parents to walk through and what does this look like to you as a parent
• two ears one mouth
• design thinking - empathy and proptyping
• what questions will they have
• know your stuff - elevator speech
• rhythms of speech - go out and have conversations with pied pipers before they see you
• go to them to hang out
• challenge your own assumptions

Slide show

Wellness strategies for staff

• keeping them safe
• we are sometimes the protectors
• 5.30 internet cut off for staff