Session 1
Managing Change
Mark Osborne
Core Education
Leadership - Painting a pic of the future that is better than the present. Creating dissonance. This is where we’re at but this is where we need to be.
Leadership v Management - Reinforcing the status quo versus change
John Kotter - Leading Change (book)
We can draw a lot of knowledge from the business context but important to remember schools are not businesses.
Leadership pyramid - pyramids are tombs. Not for leaders of today.
Not the individual making decisions but teams working together, networking and making decisions together.
'Leaders don’t create followers: they create more leaders.' - Tom Peters
First vs second order change
Different people view change differently and that will affect the style of support they will need.
'Leading adaptive change is difficult because it is about the distribution of loss' - Marty Linsky
How do we support people going through first and second order change?
Support - Highlight what is to be gained - reframing loss into gain.
Mentoring, modeling
Time! Allow time to think about and think through the change, time to create change.
Acknowledge what they are doing well and what they can keep.
If going through second order change - need personal human support
Important to be aware of how people are going through change and provide the support they need.
Find a burning platform
Teaching IS Inquiry - not Teaching AS Inquiry - create time for this to happen
Kotter's Eight Stage Process for Facilitating Change
John Kotter’s 3 Key Phrases
Soften Status Quo > Develop New Skills > Sustain the Change
'Culture eats strategy for breakfast' - Peter Drucker
Session 2
Your roles as an emerging leader and the achievement levels of Maori Learners; What 'can' this look like?
Snapshot - 3 Minute Chunk
Balance of Management and Leadership
- Meter App - How much your Meeting is costing!
1. Do you really need to have this meeting?
https://www.loomio.org/
2. Create the future rather than summarize the past
3. Use the final 10 minutes of each meeting to:
Session 3
Celebrating Pasifika Giftedness and Promoting Achievement
Manu Faaea-Semeatu and Anthony Faitaua
- Identifying and understanding giftedness
Gifted Pasifika is embedded within the family and community, not in the school.
Relationship with the students, look at areas of strengths
Awareness of the identifiers
Open to discuss with the students and teachers that there is talent and for student to be assessed
2. Making connections with Pasifika achievement in your practice?
Which way of assessing the students leads to their success?
Get to know the child as a learner.
Building relationships is the key
Snapshot - Story-telling
Never make a point without a story and never tell a story without a point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCzczq7z93w
Session 4
Reconceiving Ordinary
Chrissie Butler
Universal Design for Learning - Planning for one kid but opening it up for others.
- 25 years of research. Huge in The States at the moment
- Different way of presenting information makes it stick
- Strategic, recognition effective.
Recognising and removing barriers
- connections with what students bring through the door
Building in Supports for Universal Designs for Learning
- Universal solutions - predictable variables
- need to ensure they are included in Engagement, Representation AND Action and Expression
- digital tools, music,
Application of UDL
- Closed captions in Youtube - when searching go into filter
- text help
- read and write for google
Snapshot - Reflection
Pic 18
Day 2
Session 5
Leading Toward a Maker Culture
Stephen Lethbridge - Principal, Taupaki School
Ice Breaker - make an A4 piece of paper travel the furtherest - 5 min making time and testing
Digital Resident v Digital Visitor
No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age as the current generation- David Warlick
Maker Movement
- a technology based extension of DIY culture
- inherent new and unique applications for anything produced
- learning practical skills and applying them creatively
- the convergence of the digital and analogue world
Creative Commons policies in schools
Seymour Papert - father of Maker Movement
Examples fo Maker Culture
- Arduino
Robotic, Beetlebots
- Mindkits
3D Printing
ZombieBots
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Google SketchUp
Minecraft
Soft circuitry
e-textiles
Scratch and MaKeyMaKey
Pervasive Makerness
It is all about leadership
- You cannot make anyone do anything they do not want to do - Glasser
- unless you are in the army
- Levels of Perspective - Daniel Kim Pic??
Professional Freedom - one third of the day observing
- one third of the day reflecting
- one third of the day sharing - loading on line (ultranet)
Snapshots : Next Steps
Un-conference $225 7/8 July
Edu Ignite
Session 6
Let's Have Conversations That Matter
Tabletalk with Albany Senior High School
Barbara Cavanagh and Team
It's not if you are bight, it's how you are bright.
Snapshot : Priorities
Eisenhower Matrix - Urgent vs Important
Servant Leadership - Robert K Greenleaf (Book)
A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
Session 7
Maurie Abraham - Hobsonville Point Secondary School
The Important is Now Urgent
Mindset not Skillset
- open to be challenged
- to change anything if it was going to benefit the students
- Carol Dweck - Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset
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- Growth Mindset and moral purpose leads to Agile Leadership
- Growth in career choice in growth Creative Problem Solving Industry
- ERO argues that innovation, creativity and responsiveness should be the norm in all schools and for all students.
- Our students are already 21C Learners. How to make teachers become effective teachers of 21C learners and are our schools catering for 21C learners?
- A Different Way to Think About Schooling - TED - Sugata Mita
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- Employers want - Teamwork, Problem Solving and Interpersonal Skills
- Our students need to know how to Analyse the Information and Use the Information
- GPILSEO - A Change Model
- Moore's Law -
- Open, Visible, Flexible, Connected
- The Three Rs
- Relationships
- Relevance
- Rigour
Apps and Resources
- Meter App
- https://tellagami.com/
- Twitter #els14 PASIFIKA
- http://community.events.core-ed.org/discussion/view/123701?orderby=latest
- schoology
- aurasma
- freeconverter
- Twitter - Ian Dukes,
So What? - Reflections, Thoughts and What next?
As a leader
- First vs Second Order Change
- where do my team members fit here?
- how can I support them through this change?
- what are they losing?
- why is what we are doing an improvement and better for student learning?
- can I articulate this?
- Meetings
- am I running meetings effectively?
- are we future thinking?
- is there time for reflection and a recap?
- is the communication sorted?
- Digital Learning Team to read 10 Ideas of 21st Century Education
- Learning Goal
- I am going to learn from criticism from others.
- Change Model - read up on GPILSEO model
As a learner
- Inquiry
- what is the crisis I am enquiring into?
- am I inquiry into what matters?
- Storytelling
- find and practice a few good stories
For my students
- Get to know the students better
- what are they good at?
- what do they want to learn?
- how do they want to learn?
- how can I build this into my programme?
