Slides to support a master class for school administrators in their role as instructional leaders through practical hands-on activities. Informed by research on educational leadership and what most influences student learning outcomes. Held at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA. 13 July 2015.
Barangay Council for the Protection of Children (BCPC) Orientation.pptx
The Lead Learner v4
1. Lead
Learner
the
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Darren Kuropatwa
Building Learning Communities Conference
Boston, MA
July 2015
2. who is your class?
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7. Resourcing
Strategically
When identifying and obtaining resources:
• use clear criteria aligned to pedagogical
and philosophical purposes.
• ensure sustained funding for pedagogical
priorities.
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8. Leaders in high performing schools:
• promote collegial discussions of teaching
and how it impacts on student achievement.
• provide active oversight and coordination
of the teaching programme.
• observe in classrooms and provide
feedback that teachers describe as useful.
• ensure systematic monitoring of student
progress and use of assessment results for
programme improvement.3
Planning, coordinating,
and evaluating
teaching & the
curriculum
9. School leaders promoting and participating
in teacher learning and development:
• ensure an intensive focus on the teaching
learning relationship.
• promote collective responsibility and
accountability for student achievement and
well-being.
• provide useful advice about how to solve
teaching problems.
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Promoting and
participating in
teacher learning and
development
10. School leaders ensure an orderly and
supportive environment by:
• protecting teaching time.
• ensuring consistent discipline routines.
• identifying and resolving conflicts
quickly and effectively.
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Ensuring an orderly
and supportive
environment
11. Establishing goals & expecttions
Resourcing Strategically
Planning, coordinating & evaluating
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18. If there is no
David Wiley
sharing
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there is no
22. “The highest
form of research
is essentially play.”
NevilleV. Scarfe
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24. A Quick Create: Metaphors
Find a picture on your phone that is a
metaphor for“Learning”
Share Your Create
darren_1e14@sendtodropbox.com
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BUILDING LEARNING COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE
Learning is ...
BLC15
27. STARTfrom where the student is
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30. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by ND Strupler:
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Digital Learning Literacies?
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literacy
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numeracy
33. A new medium does not add
something; it changes everything.
Neil Postman
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scale
55. "If we teach today as we
taught yesterday, we rob
our children of tomorrow."
John Dewy
(attributed)
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56. “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not
be the man who can’t read; he
will be the man who has not
learned how to learn.”
Herbert Gerjuoy
Alvin Toffler
64. It’s a long road
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65. What to do with
inappropriate posts?
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digital dualism
86. what we do while connected is inseparable
from what we do when disconnected
Nathan Jurgenson
“
87. What do you believe? Ask yourself 3 questions:
88. Nobody who is on social networks everyday
is still the same person. It’s an online/offline
interaction, not an esoteric virtual world.
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The internet is a reflection of our society
and that mirror is going to be reflecting
what we see. If we do not like what we see
in that mirror the problem is not to fix the
mirror, we have to fix society.
Vint Cerf (father of the internet)
102. You, Your Kids,
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&
Your
Phones
(a conversation
with parents)
a “Stand Alone” presentation for parents
by Darren Kuropatwa
Curriculum Coordinator
St. James-Assiniboia School Division
January 2015
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