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Knowledge Building Partnership: An Ontario Story

Knowledge Building Partnership: An Ontario Story. 2014 Knowledge Building Summer Institute, Quebec City August 12, 2014. SUNG. S chool. Un iversity. KB. G overnment. The power of S chool, Un iversity and G overnment partnerships. Government: Ontario Ministry of Education.

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Knowledge Building Partnership: An Ontario Story

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  1. Knowledge Building Partnership:An Ontario Story 2014 Knowledge Building Summer Institute, Quebec City August 12, 2014

  2. SUNG School University KB Government The power of School, University and Government partnerships

  3. Government:Ontario Ministry of Education Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat (LNS), Student Achievement Division (SAD): • Bruce ShawDirector, Leadership and Implementation Branch, LNS • Elaine HineStudent Achievement Officer, LNS • Denis MaikaConsultant to the Ontario Ministry of Education Knowledge Building Project

  4. University: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT) Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT): • Dr. Marlene ScardamaliaDirector, IKIT • Dr. Monica ResendesResearch Coordinator, IKIT

  5. Schools:The Three Ontario Principals AssociationsLeading Student Achievement Project • Ginette HuardLSA Coordinator, l’Association des directions et directions adjointes des écoles franco ontariennes (ADFO) • Mary CordeiroLSA Coordinator, Catholic Principals’ Council | Ontario (CPCO) • Linda MasseyLSA Coordinator, Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC)

  6. Ontario’s Story Student Achievement Division, Ontario Ministry of Education

  7. Our “K-12 Journey” for the past 10 years: A Small Number of Ambitious Goals • High levels of student achievement • 75% of students with high level of literacy and numeracy skill by age 12 • 85% of students graduating from high school within 5 years of starting grade 9 • Reduced gaps in student achievement • Increasedpublic confidence in education

  8. Elementary Outcomes: Achievement Results 150,000more students at provincial standard 4 key levers for elementary reform: • Improving classroom teaching and learning • Improving school effectiveness • Leadership capacity building • Research and evaluation

  9. Levers to successfulimprovement systems • A small number of ambitious goals • Leadership at all levels • High standards and expectations • Investment in leadership and capacity building related to instruction • Mobilizingdata and effective practices as a strategy for improvement (internal/external research) • Intervention in a non-punitive manner • Reducing distractions • Being transparent, relentless and increasingly challenging

  10. Achieving Excellence: A Renewed Vision for Education in Ontario Our renewed goals for education are: • Achieving Excellence • Ensuring Equity • Promoting Well-Being • Enhancing Public Confidence http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/renewedVision.pdf

  11. Knowledge Building Principles and Ontario’s Renewed Vision for Education • Real ideas and authentic problems • Improvable ideas • Idea diversity • Rise above • Epistemic agency • Community knowledge, collective responsibility • Democratizing knowledge • Symmetric knowledge advancement • Pervasive knowledge building • Constructive uses of authoritative sources • Knowledge building discourse • Concurrent, embedded, and transformative assessment

  12. University: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT) Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT): • Dr. Marlene ScardamaliaDirector, IKIT • Dr. Monica ResendesResearch Coordinator, IKIT

  13. Institute of Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT)Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto • Researchers • Graduate students • Programmers / Developers • Visiting scholars • International Network

  14. Partnership - Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study • Administration • Teachers • Students • Student-teachers

  15. Leading Student Achievement (LSA), Tri-Board projects Participation in: • LSA webinars • Regional sessions and symposia • School site visits • Meet with teachers & principals in schools • One-time or repeatedly, if more support is requested • Work with regional student achievement officers • Support with Knowledge Building and Knowledge Forum • Provide resources for Knowledge Building; introduce Knowledge Forum; support early experimentation with KB/KF • Engage with students around their experiences (one or two cases) • Interaction with school board research team

  16. Goals For The Next Year • How can we better support teachers, students and principals involved in the LSA project? • e.g. — Development of professional learning resources and networks • How can we engage participants as co-designers in teacher/student—researcher—development teams to improve KF? • e.g. — Networks to support addressing user needs, testing tools, refining designs. • What theoretical advances can help inform the adoption and spread of Knowledge Building? • Conceptual models - from Collaborative Inquiry to Knowledge Creation

  17. From Inquiry to Knowledge Creation • 1 – Simplistic to complex questioning • 2 – Single source to explanatory coherence • 3 – Teacher-directed to student agency • 4 – Individual inquiry to collective responsibility of community knowledge • Etc…

  18. 2005-2015Our Story

  19. Schools:The Three Ontario Principals AssociationsLeading Student Achievement Project • Ginette HuardLSA Coordinator, l’Association des directions et directions adjointes des écoles franco ontariennes (ADFO) • Mary CordeiroLSA Coordinator, Catholic Principals’ Council | Ontario (CPCO) • Linda MasseyLSA Coordinator, Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC)

  20. Partnership and Leadership • Association des directions et des directions adjointes des écoles franco-ontariennes (ADFO) • The Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario (CPCO) • The Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC) • In partnership with and funded by the Student Achievement Division, Ministry of Education • Supported by Curriculum Services Canada (CSC)

  21. ADFO, CPCO and OPCParticipation

  22. Leading Student Achievement:Networks for Learning SCHOOL Professional Learning Communities DISTRICT Principal Learning Teams INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP LEADING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP PROVINCE LSA STEERING TEAM (ADFO, CPCO, OPC, EDU, CSC)

  23. Project Research and Evaluation:Dr. Ken LeithwoodProfessor Emeritus, OISE/UT “The Leading Student Achievement project is unique among efforts across developed countries, at the present time, in approaching leadership development as directly and extensively as it has.” (Leithwood, 2013)

  24. LSA Theory of ActionFour Paths of Leadership Influence on Student Learning

  25. Principal Learning Teams (PLTs): A group of school leaders in a district, usually including at least one system leader, as well, with same purposes as professional learning communities but with a focus on improving their own leadership. PLTs often also help guide district as well as school-level decisions.

  26. Northern Districts Pilot • PurposeMoving concept of Knowledge Building to Principal Learning Teams (PLTs) • HowInvitational to those interested in exploring this work with colleagues • SupportsLSA District Facilitator(s) • Knowledge Forum/Technologies • Ministry and District Resources • Participation in LSA PL Sessions

  27. Northern Districts Pilot • Involvement • Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board • Keewatin-Patricia District School Board • Lakehead District School Board • Who • Principals/Vice Principals (Team Leaders/Members) • Teacher Leaders • LSA System Leaders • Next Steps

  28. Success Stories and Differentiation Conseilscolairecatholiquefranco-nord Real story in an elementary school • Collaborative Inquiry in literacy for grade 2 to improve students’ reading performance • Collect data to improve reading • Analyse data and make decisions regarding winning strategies to improve reading • Using collaboration as a tool to ensure student success

  29. Success Stories and Differentiation (cont’d) Conseilscolairecatholiquefranco-nord Real story in a secondary school • Developing the emotional path in a secondary school to improve student motivation, commitment and the graduation rate • Use strategies that enhance emotional well-being and contribute to strong involvement in school work • As a result, student attendance and graduation rates have improved significantly

  30. Partnership with « École en réseau » • Collaboration with Dr Thérèse Lafernière and her team to facilitate the use of KF and the philosophy of KB • Participation in virtual sessions and symposium • Sharing French material with the French school boards of Ontario • To ensure a collaborative relationship between small French schools in Ontario and establish pilot projects to implement KB an KF

  31. Development of a KB Community by a District PLT (cont’d) “Our work has included both cross-curricular and cross-paneldevelopment of strategies and supports for teachers to enhance practice centred around asking students to explore deep and meaningful questions connected to curriculum and the world around us.” “Our story features the principal learning team and our lead teacher’s interactions with teacher learning teams connected to Knowledge Building.”

  32. Development of a KB Community by a District PLT Upper Grand District School Board In their own words from: More Real Stories: How LSA Participation Has Improved Leadership, Teaching and Student Achievement (May, 2014) “This story is about the journey that our teams have undertaken to introduce and develop Knowledge Building communities in three secondary schools and one elementary school.”

  33. For further information: LSA Web Network (NING) • http://lsanetwork.ning.com(English) • http://reseautagedre.ning.com(French) LSA Website • www.lsaontario.org (English) • www.dreontario.org (French) Curriculum Services Canada • www.curriculum.org(Click on LeadingStudentAchievement or Diriger la réussite des élèves)

  34. Tri-Board Pre-Pilot Project • This project emerged out of collaborative work being done since 2013 between researchers at the Institute for Knowledge, Innovation and Technology (IKIT) at OISE/University of Toronto, Leading Student Achievement, staff in the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat (LNS), and principals/teachers and researchers in several school districts. • The purpose of this collaboration has been to support teacher and principal professional learning relating to the principles of knowledge building (KB) and to introduce Knowledge Forum.

  35. Tri-Board Pre-Pilot Project (cont’d) • Activities for educators relating to this work have included: • Face-to-face and webinar learning sessions • Use of Knowledge Forum (KF) knowledge building software • Support for instructional planning and development These activities took place throughout the 2013-14 academic year, and culminated in a sharing opportunity in May, 2014.

  36. What Did This Project Look Like? Tri-Board Pre-Pilot Project • March – June 2014 • 3 district school boards • 10 elementary schools • 2 secondary schools • 2 face-to-face sessions • 3 webinars for capacity building and sharing of ideas/school support visits/KF support • Ongoing research component (internal and external)

  37. What Did We See and Learn? • 3 big trends coming out of the work…

  38. High Engagement and Excitement • Moving to co-design • Activating Knowledge Building Principles • Activating Knowledge Building Circles • Using Knowledge Forum software…a space where ideas and curiosity live • Sharing thinking and ideas • Improving ideas in a very respectful manner • Contributing to the community knowledge

  39. Sharing of Ideas • Students, teachers and administrators using Knowledge Forum in classrooms and in Principal Learning Teams to share and spread thinking and ideas

  40. SPREAD • Principals influencing… • Teachers • Principals Students influencing… • Students • Parents • Teachers Teachers influencing… • Students • Teachers • Principals • Parents

  41. Knowledge Building –Inquiry Based LearningWebsite http://learnteachlead.ca/en/projects/knowledge-building • Resources • Digital Stories • KB Principles • Case Studies • FAQ • A place for people to share and meet

  42. Please Help Us! Our burning question for you…. What advice can you give us as we move forward with the Tri-Board Project and think about our next steps?

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