Montague Partnership August 6-7 EDC

1. MontaguePartnership August 6-7 EDC Katrina Spencer 2014

2. Introduction • Welcome, acknowledgement of country • New members, updates • Housekeeping • Today’s Meet • https://todaysmeet.com/montaguepartnership • O’clock appointments

3. Program Overview • Where we are up to now • By the end of these 2 days: • Confirmed and clarified partnership processes • Established clear partnership priorities • Identified a focus area that connects your site directions to the priorities • Plan to get underway • Processes and tools – passenger free • Emergent especially Day 2

4. Montague partnership inquiry focus: ‘how do leaders best activate staff to adopt pedagogies and practices that develop globally connected learners?’

5. Modified Jigsaw Process • Find your 2 o’clock team and using your ‘MP Research Base’ handout each choose ONE page to focus on for the group. • Find your ‘like group’ eg all page 1’s together etc • Read and discuss your page and EACH complete the question on page 5 for your section (30 min) • Return to the 2 o’clock team to share your discussion (20 min) http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-clock/

6. GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS • By GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS we mean…. • In the Montague Partnership all learners are entitled to… NEW PEDAGOGIES • The key focus of NEW PEDAGOGIES is….. • This requires teachers and staff to…. CHANGE LEADERSHIP • Effective CHANGE LEADERS ensure…. • As a partnership this means we expect leaders to… DIGITAL TOOLS • The role and focus of DIGITAL TOOLS in learning is… • Learners will use digital tools…

7. Morning Tea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35n_tvOK74

8. GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS • By GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS we mean…. • In the Montague Partnership all learners are entitled to… NEW PEDAGOGIES • The key focus of NEW PEDAGOGIES is….. • This requires teachers and staff to…. CHANGE LEADERSHIP • Effective CHANGE LEADERS ensure…. • As a partnership this means we expect leaders to… DIGITAL TOOLS • The role and focus of DIGITAL TOOLS in learning is… • Learners will use digital tools…

9. GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS • By GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS we mean…. • Connected to local community • Share learning and work with the world • Authentic connections – self, neighbourhood, community world  belonging • In the Montague Partnership all learners are entitled to… • Access and expertise • Work with others in and beyond the partnership • Skills and knowledge to connect • Use a range of digital tools • Quality support, expertise, resources and pedagogies that facilitate 9

10. NEW PEDAGOGIES The key focus of NEW PEDAGOGIES is to….. • Engage kids in learning and learn how to learn • Co-manage their learning with staff • Stretch learners – inquire and go further • Engage in big rich authentic learning tasks • Solve real and complex problems • Create, innovate and problem solve This requires teachers and staff to…. • Differentiate and have high expectations of each learner, colleagues and self • Engage in real professional conversations and reflections • Model, engage and activate learning – create, innovate • Work WITH kids to design and co-manage learning • Collaborate and share with colleagues, kids  innovation • Access tailored and targeted professional learning for you • Open your class, your practice, your mind 10

11. DIGITAL TOOLS The role and focus of DIGITAL TOOLS in learning is… • Create, make, innovate, communicate, connect • Augment, extend and enhance learning • To give power and independence to the learners to self manage and guide their learning – beyond boundaries • Flexible learning environments Learners will use digital tools… • GLOBALLY CONNECT • Investigate • Deepen and extend their learning • Follow their passions 11

12. CHANGE LEADERSHIP Effective CHANGE LEADERS ensure…. • Co-create a vision • Connect vision to everyone and everything you do – a lens • A model, framework, blueprint to lead this work • A range of strategies and styles to bring people on board • Connect, communicate and enact – commit • Visibly lead, believe in the importance, push, learn, know – articulate, explain and promote the vision • Monitor, modify, refine, sharpen vision  real progress • Accountability and responsibility As a partnership this means we expect leaders to… • Commit to and enact the partnership vision • Be generous and share • Align policies and structures to reflect the vision • Challenge and question policies and processes • Use data, evidence and research to drive decisions 12

13. Leading Change Critical in the work to develop GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERSwill be YOUR leadership • Provide direction, purpose and vision • Model connecting and use technology • Activate change in pedagogy & practice • Coach, monitor, direct and enable staff • Champion and communicate change • Maintain momentum and growth This may require you to do some things differently and adopt some new practices!

14. Leading Change GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEADERS • What might this involve?? • Use Today’s Meet to capture ideas

15. DISCOVER DREAM DESIGN DESTINY Appreciative Inquiry ‘in every organisation something works and change can be managed through the identification of what works and the analysis of how to do more of what works’Sue Annis Hammond

16. AI in action • DISCOVERY • What is the best of our experiences?  Understanding our ‘peak’ experiences • DREAMING • What do our experiences have in common?  identifying success criteria • DESIGN • How can we best apply this in practice?  action planning • DESTINY • What are our expectations and how will we implement and monitor these?  whole site agreements

17. DISCOVER: My most effective change leadership experience… • REFLECT on a time when you successfully led a change in pedagogy that improved outcomes for learners • CONSIDER what made this experience successful • What was your role and how was it supported? • What initiated the change? Why? • Where did you start? With whom? • What processes and resources were involved? • How did you maintain momentum and connect people in? • What was achieved? • SHARE your experience with your 8 o’clock person • EXPLORE what these have in common

18. DREAM: What do our effective change experiences have in common… • FIND a nearby pair and rather than share your stories share some of the BIG ROCKS that made it successful1  2  4 grouping • WORK as a foursome to identify the BIG ROCKS for successful change leadershipChange leadership is most effective when… • PREPARE to report back on your most vitalBIG ROCKS as a group • Successful change leaders will:

19. DESIGN: What our effective change experiences have in common… • Training/access to expertise needed/tailored • Monitored, feedback • People see where they fit • Trust and relationships - communication • Based on credible research, data • Resourced • Real purpose – connected to whole vision • Challenge and high expectations • Shared work and ownership • Collaborative • Open to learning conversations – perf devlpt

20. LUNCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=075aWDdZUlM

22. Morning Review – Hot Spot • Find your 6 o’clock appointment person • Person A is a teacher who has come to ask you as their leader the following questions: • What do you mean by Globally Connected Learners? • I’m already busy why are we focussing on this? • Now swap roles and Person B will be a parent who has come to ask you the following questions: • What will be different for my kids? • What can I expect to see from staff in classes?

23. Montague Partnership Plan Vision: • Empowering everyone to be the best learner they can be Mission/Purpose: • The Montague Partnership provides safe and dynamic 21C learning environments that activate and deepen learners’ and educators’ capacities and understandings. • FEEDBACK- GLOBAL LEARNERS, CONNECT, FAMILIES, SPECIFIC CONTEXT

24. Montague Partnership Plan Priorities Carousel Brainstorm: At tables you will each be given one priority area to review and update for 15 minutes. RECORD your ideas neatly please! We will then pass these on for the next table to add to until yours comes back to you to check and summarise. Katrina Spencer 2014

25. How do I activate new pedagogies that build globally connected kids? • My own leadership challenge – enacted at my site and with support from partnership eg PLC • Using this to enact my QIP/SIP priority(ies) to achieve my site vision • This contributes to achieving the Montague Partnership vision and priorities • Which are how we enact the DECD Strategic Plan priorities 25

26. GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS Literacy & Numeracy Learner Engagement Capacity Building

27. Where does my site connect? HOMEWORK! • Review your current QIP/SIP to identify connections with the MP priorities • Where can MP priorities add value to your work? • Where can your site add value to the partnership? What could you share? • What might be your inquiry focus to build GLOBALLY CONNECTED LEARNERS?

28. Partnership Business Meeting • REMINDER: Tomorrow you will need your QIP/SIP and if you have textas etc please bring • Shared Beliefs and Understandings • Group Norms • Partnership Meeting Process • ‘Enabling structures’ 2015 • Use of Partnership Funds • AOB??

29. Shared Beliefs and Understandings • Each child/student can achieve high standards, given the right time and the right support • Each educator can teach to high standards, given the right assistance • High expectations and early and ongoing intervention are essential for success • Educators need to be able to articulate what they do and why they teach the way they do(Adapted from Hill & Crevola (1999) and Sharratt & Fullan (2009, 2012) Group Norms • Engage in critical, constructive, and challenging discussion • Adopt a sense of responsibility in and for the group • Respectfully attend to others • Use professional judgement when sharing information Katrina Spencer 2014

30. Partnership Meetings • Meet twice per term for full days • Principals and Directors are expected to participate in all meetings Decision Making • Wherever possible consensus will be used to develop agreements. • Where consensus is difficult to achieve or not possible, a confidential ballot will be used. Planning Group • The Partnership Planning Group is representative of the partnership membership. • This group will meet twice per term and manage and communicate the agenda of Partnership group meetings, oversee the agreed priorities and where needed, make required decisions that represent the interests of the group. Katrina Spencer 2014

31. Enabling Structures • What processes and structures will best suit the development of a common culture and enable staff to share and co-learn? • Shared Student Free Days in 2015 – 1, 2 0?? • Common Staff Mtg– PLC, shared learning etc • Same Transition Day – kindy/primary/sec ?? • Others? • Use of Partnership Funds

32. For information or support contact Katrina Spencer 0401 120 378 katrinarspencer@gmail.com Katrina Spencer 2014