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July 2008 SYMPOSIUM: Building Networks for Learning April 28 & 29, 2008. Precision: the dynamic balance between consistency and innovation. Teaching Learning Networks.
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July 2008 SYMPOSIUM: Building Networks for Learning April 28 & 29, 2008
Precision: the dynamic balance between consistency and innovation.
Teaching Learning Networks
“networked learning communities are based on the belief that when educators work together they will create new knowledge and spread it to others. Once the knowledge is created and shared, the expectation is that it will change what educators do in their schools and classrooms and how they do it. Ultimately the changes in practice are intended to have an influence on students to enhance their learning and long term success.” Earl & Katz, 2007
Teaching –Learning Networks Informal Networks have been a means of relating in the workplace. Effective educators build networks. Networks allow reciprocal influencing. Networks help us find new ways to think and talk and make meaning about our linked work. Developing explicit shared practices within a school and across schools are outcomes of this work
“educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. Professional learning communities operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learning for educators.”Dufour, 2006
“The best way to improve student learning is to invest in the learning of the adults who serve them”Dufour, 2006
Agenda Interactive Session on Building NetworksDr. Steven Katz What does the research tell us?How do you get started?How do you sustain and build momentum?What are some of the challenges?A Family of Schools Network Gen Ling ChangBreak-out Sessions – Sharing expertise from across the province
If you’re doing something you care much about and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given!