System Implementation and Monitoring Regional Session

1. Resources are available at sim.abel.yorku.ca System Implementation and Monitoring Regional Session Fall, 2014

2. K-12 System Implementation and Monitoring (SIM) Purpose To support a board team throughout the year in the implementation and monitoring of a mathematics goal in the BIPSA.

3. A Superintendent with school responsibilities along with elementary and secondary principals from that superintendency • At least one person with responsibility for development of the BIPSA so that the learning from SIM is leveraged across the Board • Coordinators or consultants who work directly in schools in the superintendency • SELs and SSLs K-12 System Implementation and Monitoring (SIM) Team Membership

4. Expectations • The same team should attend all three sessions for ongoing learning – one session builds on another • Delegate one board team member to take responsibility for collating the documentation of the team’s learning at SIM as well as the learning between SIM sessions and for bringing the documentation to each SIM session • Teams meet or teleconference to continue the work between SIM sessions

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6. The Year Ahead SIM 1: going deeper with implementation; developing a growth mindset culture to support implementation In-between work: document the implementation process and team learning SIM 2: (Feb. 10 & 11) reflection and analysis of the implementation process, team learning and monitoring to date In-between work: collecting, documenting and analyzing evidence of impact to date SIM 3: (May 5 & 6) intentional focus on the outcome of the process, cross-board sharing

7. Agenda 9:00-12:00 Minds On - high quality mathematics instruction Video – Dan Meyer Planning for Implementation - A Look at your goal Improvement Mistakes to Avoid Implementation Challenges Implementation Video Steps to Accomplishing your Mathematics Goal 12:45-3:10 Mindsets that Support Implementation Readings Video – Carol Dweck Consolidating your Implementation Plan Feedback

8. Implementation and Monitoring Implementation is an active, intentional processthat guides the use and integration of a set of actions that leads to the effective use of evidence-informed practice. Monitoring is the ongoing gathering, reviewing and assessing of information to track and document progress towards results and goals. -Adapted from Utilization Focused Evaluation, M. Patton

9. Minds-On Task #1 “If you were asked to observe a teacher’s math classroom for one or more lessons, what would you look for to decide whether the mathematics instruction is high quality?” -K. Katterfeld, 2013 Think on your own for 5 minutes and write each idea on a different sticky. Use a fine black marker so that the ideas can easily be seen. After 5 minutes share your ideas with your team and post the ideas on the chart paper. Put your board name at the top of your chart paper.

10. Dan Meyer

11. Best Evidence Synthesis on Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics Effective mathematical pedagogy is a coherent system rather than a set of discrete, interchangeable strategies. This pedagogical system encompasses: • A non-threatening classroom environment • Instructional tasks • Tools and representations • Classroom discourse Effective Pedagogy in Mathematics/Pangarau by Glenda Anthony & Margaret Walshaw, New Zealand (2007)

12. Team Discussion Add new ideas to your view of high quality mathematics instruction.

13. Planning for Implementation Task # 2 • What is your BIPSA mathematics goal? • How does your goal relate to your understanding of high quality mathematics instruction? • What questions do you have about this goal? • What will be different for: students, teachers, principals and superintendents if this goal is realized? Record your goal on a piece of chart paper.

14. Breakout Rooms • Vaughan East • Vaughan West • Aurora • Newmarket • Ballantrae • King City

15. Implementation Challenges • What is adopted is often not used with fidelity. • What is used with fidelity is often not sustained for a useful period of time. • What is used with fidelity is often not used on a scale sufficient to impact many students.

16. Implementation Video

17. Questions Posed in the Video Which of these questions, if any, are relevant to your discussion about implementation? • Who can do it? • How do we do it? • How do we train for it? • How will we evaluate it? • How will we capture our experience so that we can share our knowledge with others? • How would we avoid the mistakes in our plan?

18. Reading Three school improvement mistakes (and how to avoid them)

19. Planning for Implementation Task #4 • What are the specific action steps that need to be accomplished? • What and how will you monitor, document and analyze the learning for each group (student, teacher, principal, superintendent) for each action step? Use one colour of post-it for implementation steps and another colour for monitoring

20. Process for Task #4 Individual activity - use one colour of sticky for action steps and another colour for how you will monitor that step. Team Activity – Consider all implementation and monitoring ideas developed by the team - Sort and classify your ideas

21. Lunch 12:00-12:45

22. “There truly is no scientific justification anymore-if there ever was-for labeling children as having different amounts of ‘intelligence’, ‘ability’, or even-the new weasely euphemism – potential.”Lucas and Claxton 2010

23. “Without a single-minded focus on each student as a developing individual, all the other strategies, systems and approaches are worthless.” -Oliver Knight and David Benson, Creating Outstanding Classrooms, page 193

24. Developing a Growth Mindset Culture What strategies and interventions can be: • explicitly taught • cultivated and • nurtured to create a growth mindset culture?

25. Carol Dweck Video

26. Developing a Growth Mindset Culture Task #5 What strategies and interventions can be: • explicitly taught • cultivated and • nurtured to create a growth mindset culture?

28. Readings Choose a reading and discuss : Towards a growth mindset in assessment -Geoff N. Masters 2. Preparing Students to Take Responsibility for Learning -J.P. Carpenter and J.S. Pease 3. The Mindsets That Foster “Productive Persistence” In Students -Michael Keany4. Developing a Growth Mindset-How individuals and organizations benefit from it -CoertVisser 5. Perseverance and Grit -Rick Wormeli 6. Creating Outstanding Classrooms –O. Knight & D. Benson

29. Planning for Implementation Task # 6 • Prioritize the action steps. • Determine what timeline is reasonable for each step. • Place the action steps and monitoring actions on the timeline. Implementation Monitoring Fill in dates for your action steps.

30. Planning for Implementation Task #7 Use an organizer to capture your thinking and for each action step consider: • Resources Required • Communication Plan • Roles and Responsibilities • Professional Learning • Potential Source(s)of Evidence • Mindset • Monitoring • Home/School Partnerships

31. Consolidation In-between work: document the implementation process and team learning and bring materials to Winter SIM Invite SAO, FTL and/or ESSEO to share videos showing examples of monitoring from folks across the regions