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Improving All Schools. Ben Levin, OISE/University of Toronto Loen , Norway October 3, 2012 @ BenLevinOISE – Twitter Webspace.oise.utoronto.ca/~ levinben /. Outline for the Morning. Working in a second language Start with your views, ideas What is most important? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Improving All Schools
Ben Levin, OISE/University of TorontoLoen, Norway
October 3, 2012@BenLevinOISE – TwitterWebspace.oise.utoronto.ca/~levinben/
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Outline for the Morning
• Working in a second language• Start with your views, ideas• What is most important?• All of us together are smarter than any of us
individually– Need to hear and respect diverse views
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Ethics and Motivation
• An ethical question – what do we owe our students?
• A psychological question – how high can we aim?– Lots of evidence people can do better– Increasing evidence we can help them believe
and do this
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Current Status
What is good/not as good about your system?
What do you want to know or think more about?
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Ontario
• Big system – 2 million students• Since 2004
– Improved all student outcomes– Improved teacher morale– Improved public confidence
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Key Actions
• Will and skill
• Focused plan with a few clear goals• Consistent leadership support• Positive approach• Focus on teaching and learning• Relentless implementation
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Focused Plan
• No more than 3 key goals• Simple to understand, broadly accepted• Central goals sustained for years• Clearly linked to action and implementation
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Leadership
• Leadership is all about teams• ‘Guiding coalition’• Political and civil service working together• School and system• Teachers and principals• Students and parents
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Leadership – continued
• Key skills for leaders• Operations – have to be managed, but with
minimum effort• Teaching and learning – leading this effort• Politics – also vital to success
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Positive Approach
• Respect for all partners and for different opinions
• Build on and spread what is already good• Building capacity is key• Forums for debate and working together• Feedback on progress
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Focus on Teaching and Learning
• Avoid organizational and structural issues• Do not lead with accountability• Seeing teaching as a difficult technical skill
– That can be learned, like any other skill• Helping teachers improve their work
– Moving towards common/shared practice– Using evidence
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Improving Teaching and Learning - 2
• Much more than courses• Must be rooted in daily practice and life of
the school• A collective activity among teachers• Using ‘real’ practice as well as other
evidence• Student (and parent) voice
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Relentless Implementation
• All schools, all students– Lateral learning
• Building implementation capacity• Aligning all parts of the system• Nowhere to hide from the key goals• Using research and data to guide
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Responses?
• What resonates?• What does not seem appropriate?• What is missing?• What do you do next?
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Infusing Equity
• Understanding who is not successful– Within schools, not just between schools– Which differences really matter?
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J Hattie – Meta analysis of Strategies
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Infusing Equity
• Understanding who is not successful• Understanding those students’ situations• Infusing equity concerns in every part of what the
school does– Teaching practices– Curriculum and resources– Relationships with students
• Reaching out to parents and communities
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Fighting Complacency
• Generally – appealing to rather than frightening people
• Students – Building on their interests and passions
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Fighting Complacency
• Generally – appealing to rather than frightening people
• Students – Building on their interests and passions
• Parents and communities – Showing examples of what is possible
• Focusing on skills as well as knowledge
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Politics of Change
• Nature of politics– Keeping people interested, aroused
• Challenge for education– Finding changes that are worthwhile– Explaining them to people
• Influencing political process– Indirect more than direct
• Storylines, narratives
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Working With Parents
• Parents have to be advocates, not must monitors
• Parents resent being homework managers– Especially when much homework is not
meaningful• Important to build partnerships with parents
– Listening, not just telling
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Other Issues?