CREATING A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY

1. CREATING A COMMUNITY OF CURIOSITY “Challenges for School Leadership”

2. Setting the Scene Context: • Political Realities • A School’s Environment Challenges: • We know the data that matters most is directly and explicitly about student learning

3. 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

4. CREATIVITY COMMUNITY TRUST

5. Prepare (continued) • Sharing stories in an ongoing, regular way is important if you wish to build sustainable commitment • Build Assessment Literacy

6. 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

7. Inquire • Dig into Data • Seek the Truth • Look at Student Work • Develop and investigate a “Problem of Practice”

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

9. 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

10. Conclusions (continued) • Moral Imperative • Keep learning, reflecting, challenging yourself